A trip to the Stoneham Zoo located in Stoneham, Massachusetts, is a perfect way to balance out emotions with nature. Our zoo's offer the remedy for getting in touch with our uptight, fast-paced lives. It's...
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BBC is opening the world's largest online zoo, the Wildlife Finder, which features pictures and videos of hundreds of animals. The BBC Wildlife Finder zoo promises never to disappoint, as the animals will always...
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Two male penguins named Harry and Pepper have been together for six years, acting in all ways as a nesting couple. When a penguin male/female couple would not care for their egg Pepper and Harry were allowed to...
Franklin Park Zoo in Boston may be forced to close and euthanize some of the animals as a result of budget cuts imposed on them by Governor Deval Patrick. With a lack of state funding, the zoo will run out of money...
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Two rare animals were debuted this week; a snow leopard cub at the Berlin Animal Park and an Okapi at the Denver Zoo. The leopard cub is named Altai was debuted on Friday July 10, 2009. "Berlin's Tierpark introduced their latest off-spring today: "Altai", a little snow...
"WASHINGTON, May 2 (UPI) -- Giving a panda at the National Zoo in Washington a colonoscopy was a complicated procedure involving 10 employees, zoo officials said. Tai Shan, born at the zoo almost four years ago, needed the colonoscopy to determine whether he had recovered...
A woman was mauled by a polar bear at the Berlin Zoo today when she jumped into their enclosure, and was only saved when zoo keepers managed to push one of the bears away. The 32 year-old woman jumped into the moat...
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A Polish politican is criticizing his local zoo for raising a gay elephant called Ninio, who seems to prefer only the company of other male elephants and will most likely not breed.""We didn't pay 37 million zlotys (7.6 million pounds) for the largest elephant house in...
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We were about to pull into the parking lot of a Mexican restaurant in Ft. Meyers, Florida one night in February when we noticed something very odd next to the road: a camel standing in a pen under brutally bright...
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A six-year-old macaw is missing from the Greater Vancouver Zoo. It had been taken out of its cage to spend some time in the Parrot Gardens and hasn't been seen since Monday afternoon. It has clipped wings, so its unlikely it went anywhere on its own. "This isn't the first...
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A baby hippo, named Farasi, born at the Basel Zoo in Switzerland, may be fed to the big cats there because there might not be enough room for it there. However there has been such a public outcry, zoo officials are...
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Zookeepers in Malaysia's southern Johor state have named two new African lion cubs after US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton." Obama and Hillary, along with another female cub...
New Orleans NOW: For the very first timeAugust 29th, 2009 is the 4th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's devastating visit to New Orleans. Perusing CNN's online coverage I was intrigued by, "New...
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