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...animal-rights activists, animal-behavior experts and even some zoo officials, Billy's situation is very uncool. In the wild, elephants roam as much as 30 miles a day, snacking on lush foliage, bathing in water holes and interacting socially with other elephants in groups of up to 20. At the Los Angeles Zoo, Billy has had just under an acre on which to roam. After a $39 million upgrade scheduled for completion in 2009, he will share 3.7 acres (about three football fields) with two companions...
...president of the Women’s Forum of Washington, D.C., and council member of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute. Several years ago, Greenhouse took part in the “Snore and Roar” program at the National Zoo, an event at which attendees camp out on a summer night and wake up with the animals.“I did it with my neighbor because Gene didn’t want to come with me,” Greenhouse says with a laugh.Greenhouse has a special interest...
...parents met and married at Fordham. Both uncles on my father’s side are Fordham Rams, as are both of my brothers, my sister, one cousin, and countless friends. Our family made frequent trips to Fordham and passed by the campus whenever we visited the Bronx Zoo or the New York Botanical Garden. I watched my first live college basketball games at Rose Hill Gymnasium and attended basketball camp there from middle school through my freshman year of high school. Before I knew the words to my high school alma mater, I knew Fordham’s fight...
...taken by monorail to a recovery area. He'll be confined to his stall for several months Sources: Corinne Sweeney, DVM, New Bolton Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, George D. Widener Hospital for Large Animals; Atlas of Topographical Anatomy of the Domestic Animals, Vol. 1 ; Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx Zoo; Animal Painting and Anatomy, by W. Frank Calderon (Dover, 1975) Graphic for TIME by Ed Gabel; reported by Kristina Dell
Visit the monkey house at any zoo and it'd be hard to conclude that man's near relative has much to say. But researchers at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, writing in Nature last week, have concluded that monkeys do indeed use simple verbal communication. They observed male putty-nosed monkeys in Nigeria's Gashaka Gumti National Park and found the primates produced a series of calls containing two basic sounds to alert others to predators. "These calls were not produced randomly, and a number of distinct patterns emerged," says Kate Arnold, one of the researchers. "Pyow" warned...