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I had the pleasure of shooting the various animals in the Franklin Park zoo. It was an amazing experience! What really amazed me was the communication capability I had with the gorillas. They were able to understand me...I had the pleasure of shooting the various animals in the Franklin Park zoo. It was an... more
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Look at them!
Now that they are a month old these meerkats from Bristol have been allowed to play outside. They have begun digging like their parents - but frequently fall over as they try to find their feet.
Just adorableLook at them!
Now that they are a month old these meerkats from Bristol have been... more
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This ad tells the story how the HP Photosmart Premium helped a little boy have a great day at the zoo.This ad tells the story how the HP Photosmart Premium helped a little boy have a great... more
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Seeing this here today is really a delightful eye-opener! This gal's hair is pure Harlow gold, and her red lips a tasty sweet surprise. I can tell that her little hands there never get cold, and she's got those cute, cute Bette Davis eyes! She looks so much like a model, or some kind of old-timey movie starlet...the photographer who took this picture-portrait really captured her eyes very well, so beautiful.
You should have this picture tattooed to the inside of your brain, so you can remember it for all time and forevers. And also, you should go ahead and cancel your plans for the rest of today, so you can print out a bunch of copies of this picture to send to all your friends-peoples, and also to paste some in your own family photo-album. Plus, see here that it's got a music video that plays along with it. Sure it do. It's got Miss Kim Carnes, belting out that old 1980's tear-jerker, “She's Got Those Bette Davis Eyes.” It's all good.Seeing this here today is really a delightful eye-opener! This gal's hair is... more
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Using my camera to help raise money for the Franklin Park Zoo, in Boston...I had the pleasure of photographing Joe at Franklin Park Zoo. I was really surprised that he allow me to photograph him. I used Photoshop to put emphases on his eyes.Using my camera to help raise money for the Franklin Park Zoo, in Boston...I had the... more
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Visitors to the Bristol Zoo are unknowingly part of the animal attractions and can read all about the species Homo sapiens in this plaque hung by the window of the zoo’s cafe. It says, in part:
"After a gestation period of nine months, humans usually live in their parents’ nest for around 16 years. While the parents are out foraging for food, juveniles are looked after in large groups by other adults.
In adolescence, the offspring adopt a more nocturnal lifestyle and engage in ritualized activities of drinking fermented liquids and dancing to rhythmical sounds, which scientists believe help them to find a mate..."
More at the link!Visitors to the Bristol Zoo are unknowingly part of the animal attractions and can... more
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Seeing as animal feed is one of the largest expenses a zoo has, coupled with the fact that transportation of said feed has an enormous carbon footprint, the Paignton Zoo in South Devon has begun a vertical farming project inside the zoo aimed at producing some of the food needed to feed the animals. And boy does this farm produce!Seeing as animal feed is one of the largest expenses a zoo has, coupled with the fact... more
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Ralph, a Humboldt penguin, baffled staff at a zoo near Winchester when he suddenly went bald, losing all his feathers in one day. Humboldt penguins normally shed old feathers over a few weeks while they grow new ones. But Ralph only kept the feathers on his head, putting him at serious risk of getting sunburnt.
This year, instead of spending three weeks indoors and away from his group (as he's had to do every year when his feathers fall out), his keepers have found him a mini wetsuit that lets him swim, fish and play with the other penguins.
The wetsuit is causing quite a stir amongst visitors to the zoo, but Ralph seems to love it.Ralph, a Humboldt penguin, baffled staff at a zoo near Winchester when he suddenly... more
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Two giant pandas at San Diego Zoo are probably GIGANTIC pandas after their birthday party, Monday.
Zhen Zhen turned 2 on August 3rd and Su Lin turned four on the 2nd. They were given a cake befitting their species (they were giant, okay!) And who couldn't resist a birthday crammed with apples, carrots and bamboo, eh?Two giant pandas at San Diego Zoo are probably GIGANTIC pandas after their birthday... more
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Standup comedian Dan Bialek discussing rappers and eugenics, why Bigfoot doesn't exist, cholos at the zoo and his Vietnam veteran father's bloodlust at the 12 Shiny Nickels Showin Los Angeles, CA on 07/31/09.
For more about Dan please visit: http://www.thatjerkdan.comStandup comedian Dan Bialek discussing rappers and eugenics, why Bigfoot doesn't... more
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A male polar bear Yukio tries to eat vegetables inside a block of ice presented to promote the German polar bear film 'Knut und seine Freunde' and to help beat the summer heat at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo. The temperatures in Tokyo soared to over 30 degrees Celsius at noon.
(photos & video)A male polar bear Yukio tries to eat vegetables inside a block of ice presented to... more
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IDA Exposes Another Los Angeles Zoo Cover-Up - This week, IDA again exposed the Los Angeles Zoo’s attempt to hide the truth, revealing that it paid a paltry USDA penalty of $3,281 for its FAILURE TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE veterinary care to the elephant, Gita, as she lay dying overnight in June 2006.
The fine also INCLUDED the death of a chimpanzee in July 2006, making the amount even more shockingly scant.
At the time of her death, the L.A. Zoo failed to report that Gita had been observed down on the ground overnight in a perilous position and that zoo personnel took no action to help the suffering elephant. She died soon after keepers found her in the morning.
According to one report, Gita may have laid there for as long as 17 HOURS.
The truth may never have been told if not for IDA, which received a zoo insider tip and exposed the L.A. Zoo’s negligence that caused Gita to suffer a slow and agonizing death.
What gives this latest revelation even more importance is the fact that the fine was paid, according to an L.A. Times report, in January, 2008, yet the zoo kept this information hidden from the public and the Los Angeles City Council, which spent months that year deliberating whether the L.A. Zoo should continue to display elephants.This piece of critical information may have changed the council’s ultimate vote to continue keeping elephants at the zoo.
As if the story so far isn’t enough to make you feel outraged, from the token amount of the fine to the L.A. Zoo withholding vital information from city leaders, there’s MORE...
In May 2008, after Gita’s USDA file was officially closed, IDA submitted requests to the L.A. Zoo and the USDA, requesting information on the case. Neither public entity (the zoo is city owned and run) provided any information regarding the penalty, as both are required to do by law.
In response to IDA’s exposé of the L.A. Zoo, Los Angeles City Council member Tony Cardenas presented a motion before the city council this week that would force the zoo to account for this outrageous cover-up and direct the City Attorney to investigate and report back on any possible criminal and/or civil violations by the L.A. Zoo of the California Public Records Act and the U.S. Freedom of Information Act.
IDA was only able to learn about the L.A. Zoo’s fine because we sent a letter last month, signed by actress Lily Tomlin and leading animal protection organizations, to the USDA, blasting the agency for its failure to protect captive-held elephants.
The USDA’s response letter contained scant information about Gita and the zoo’s fine, as well as unacceptable and incomplete explanations regarding their inaction for other elephants.
This is one more case where the USDA is failing to protect elephants and to hold those who violate the Animal Welfare Act truly accountable.
What the L.A. Zoo received is nothing more than a slap on the wrist, despite the fact that Gita, an endangered Asian elephant, suffered for hours in terrible pain without veterinary care.
Help IDA hold both the L.A. Zoo and the USDA accountable for this travesty of justice.
1) If you live in the City of Los Angeles, please contact Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and your city council member and express your outrage at yet another L.A. Zoo cover-up and the fact that critical information was withheld from the council during hearings on the future of the elephant exhibit. Urge your council member to take action to whether construction on the $42 million dollar display should continue.
2) Write to your Congressperson and urge her or him to hold the USDA accountable for its utter failure to protect elephants in circuses and zoos and uphold federal law.
3) The other elephants that the USDA is failing to protect, including Tina, Queenie and Jewel, three elephants who are suffering and in danger, held by an abusive circus trainer. https://secure2.convio.net/ida/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1307IDA Exposes Another Los Angeles Zoo Cover-Up - This week, IDA again exposed the Los... more
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GAZA—Something didn't quite look right about the zebra, but it was hard to say exactly what. Of the several ramshackle zoos in Gaza, Marah, located not far from the Bureij refugee camp, is by far the cheeriest: The animals are lively, the enclosures clean, and children gather around the cage of a resting lion.
Then again, the competition is hardly stiff: The zoo in Rafah features dead animals left to rot in their cages; another animal park, situated in a densely populated neighborhood in Bureij, recently shut down amid financial difficulties (and after neighbors complained of the smell). A third, also in Bureij, is so short of funds that a fox is kept in a grocery cart with a board over the top.
Yet Marah, with its broken-down bumper cars and a pit filled with sadly deflated balls, had its own not-quite-right feel—particularly the zebra. Standing near the back of its cage, facing away from the spectators, the animal kept its head tucked down.
"It's really a painted donkey," admitted Mahmud Berghat, the director of Marah, when asked about the creature. Making a fake zebra isn't easy—henna didn't work and wood paint was deemed inhumane, so they finally settled on human hair dye. "We cut its hair short and then painted the stripes," Berghat explained behind the closed door of his office.
It did the trick—if not for zoologists, then at least for legions of Gaza schoolchildren who have never seen a real zebra. When I asked him whether anyone had ever caught the ruse, the director admitted that two sharp university students had IDed the counterfeit creature. "But don't tell anyone," he said. "The children love him."
The idea of a zoo creating a fake zebra sounds preposterous, but this is Gaza, which, after two years of an economic blockade, is renowned for recycling, repurposing, and smuggling just about anything that can't be imported legally. The zoo, in a way, represents all three of these coping mechanisms: a couple of house cats stand in for wild cats; the lion was drugged and smuggled through a tunnel from Egypt; and the zebra, as Berghat joked, was "locally made."
Zoos in war zones produce an unending cascade of heart-string-tugging stories. Kabul, Afghanistan, had Marjan, the one-eyed lion, who famously survived the Soviet invasion and Taliban rule only to die in his sleep in 2002. The Baghdad zoo, once the largest in the region, was looted during the 2003 invasion.GAZA—Something didn't quite look right about the zebra, but it was hard to... more
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The Franklin Park Zoo, the only Boston institution of its kind, may be forced to close and euthanize some of its animals, zoo officials said Friday.
Without more state funding, zoo officials said that they will run out of money within months and have to close both Franklin Park and the Stone Zoo in Stoneham.
The zoos would be forced to lay off most of their 165 employees and attempt to find new homes for more than 1,000 animals.
Zoo officials estimated 20 percent of the animals would not find homes and could be euthanized.
“Not all the animals in the collection will be able to be placed at other facilities,” John Linehan, zoo president, wrote in a letter to the Massachusetts Legislature. “The Commonwealth would then be forced to either continue to maintain the animals in the closed facilities or euthanize them.”
Zoo New England Statement
The Legislature had originally provided $6.5 million to the zoos, but Gov. Deval Patrick cut the state funding to $2.5 million.
“These are extremely difficult times across the state, and there have been tough cuts in every area,” a Patrick spokeswoman, Cyndi Roy, said in a statement. “This is an example of an unfortunate cut that had to be made in order to preserve core services for families struggling during the economic downturn.”
The Franklin Park Zoo was founded in 1913. It is funded by state money, private donations and revenue from the attractions.The Franklin Park Zoo, the only Boston institution of its kind, may be forced to close... more
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Photographs of an unnamed baby elephant and his mother - named Thura - at the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg, Germany on Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The baby was born on July 4, 2009.Photographs of an unnamed baby elephant and his mother - named Thura - at the... more
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Photographs of a baby elephant and his mother at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia on Tuesday, July 7, 2009. The as yet unnamed baby was born on Saturday, July 4, 2009.Photographs of a baby elephant and his mother at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia... more
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Zadar snake expert Mladen Panic is claiming foreigners are interested in Croatia for its snakes as well as for its standard tourist attractions.Zadar snake expert Mladen Panic is claiming foreigners are interested in Croatia for... more
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Photographs of Primo, a zebra, at the Bioparco Zoo in Rome, Italy on Monday, June 22, 2009.Photographs of Primo, a zebra, at the Bioparco Zoo in Rome, Italy on Monday, June 22,... more
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The Malayan Tapir decided that he should mark me so that the rest of the world would know that I belonged to him. Malayan, or Asian, Tapirs are a vulnerable but not yet endangered species. The "not yet" part of that sentence is really scary, because habitat for these animals is dwindling. Tapirs are native to asia. The Malayan Tapir's markings are believed to have evolved so that they would look like rocks when they sleep and avoid attacks from predators.The Malayan Tapir decided that he should mark me so that the rest of the world would... more
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This is Beethoven the Beluga Whale. Here he demonstrates some of the vocalizations he can do. Beethoven was recently transfered from the Tacoma, Washington Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium to the Texas State Aquarium.This is Beethoven the Beluga Whale. Here he demonstrates some of the vocalizations he... more
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