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DIED. ADDWAITYA, around 250 years old, giant tortoise thought to have been the world's oldest living creature; in a zoo in Calcutta. Brought from the Seychelles to India by British sailors in the 1700s, Addwaitya (Bengali for "the one and only") first belonged to Robert Clive, who helped establish colonial rule in India. Clive died in 1774, but his pet stayed on in the garden of his estate, moving to the zoo 100 years later...
Subversive is an overused word in reviews. But when you send out a kid reporter and have her tell a petting-zoo manager, "These animals have it better than most people in the Third World," you've probably earned it. This brilliant kids'-show spoof--which uses puppets, cartoons and live children for absurdist humor and scathing social commentary--may be the most disturbing thing involving kids since, well, many of our actual childhoods...
...Millennium Stadium will be keeping an eye out for cockerel smugglers when the French rugby squad plays Wales on March 18. For decades, French fans have released a cockerel - the French national emblem - during the game. But last week, an official declared: "Any smuggled bird is a risk." ZOO STORIES Lacking any international standards, European zoos are devising their own strategies for dealing with possible outbreaks - some grimmer that others. Zookeepers at Frösö Zoo in central Sweden have said they are prepared to put down all of its 500 birds, including flamingos, if H5N1 enters the country...
...Republicans, of course, aren't sleeping either. As a former cable company executive, Nagin always enjoyed support among the city's business leaders, but recently at least one other candidate-Ron Forman, the CEO of the non-profit Audubon Nature Institute, which runs the Audubon Zoo-has become a favorite with moneyed Republican backers and business leaders. Forman, who is a dynamic speaker like Landrieu, has done a bang-up job fund-raising for Audubon post-Katrina, but has none of the political baggage of Nagin or Landrieu. Ironically, Forman's wife Sally just happens to be Mayor Nagin...
...Free passes offered online last week for the public debut of the adorable giant-panda cub Tai Shan at Washington's National Zoo...