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...PANDA BEAR born at the San Diego Zoo will not make a scheduled June transfer to a zoo in China. Officials are concerned about the panda's human handlers, not the bear...
...Number of monkeys, horses, birds and other animals from Baghdad's city zoo spirited off by looters or left to roam the streets after their cages were pried open...
...emotional trauma of killing a hundred ducks for her biology thesis, she ordered 15 duck eggs on the internet, and spent the next 28 days rotating the eggs. The adorable babies pecked their way out of their eggs and started walking around. Our room turned into a campus petting zoo, with a steady stream of pet-deprived students from all over campus peering in to “see the babies,” including the nightly swims the 15 baby ducks took in our shower...
...other lovelorn - to the stress of postcommunist life? Jaroslava Moserová doesn't think so. A senator and physician who treated Palach in the days before he died, she thinks she understands the strain these men were under. She compares the 1989 collapse of communism to tearing down a zoo and letting the predators loose. The past 14 years have been a chaotic, confusing time. But this response, she says, "is futile. During Palach's time there was no other way [to protest]. But now, if you give up your life, you give up a chance to do something." That...
Although Hare has always loved dogs, it didn’t initially occur to him to study them scientifically. Hare’s “first love,” as he puts it, was chimpanzees. In high school, he volunteered at a zoo in Atlanta. “I was such a dork!” he says of his passion for studying chimp behavior. Hare’s undergraduate studies at Emory University, home of a noted primate center, cemented his interest in chimp cognition and behavior...