Brew at the Zoo: Drinking to raise money for a new elephant pool and other...
By Tobias Nguyen More than 2,000 people gathered Friday night to drink for a good cause at the 19th annual "Brew at the Zoo" fundraiser, sponsored by the Friends of Rosamond Gifford Zoo. The guests...
View ArticleSpringtime road kill can be very telling: Oddities in the Outdoors
Syracuse, N.Y. -- Road kill can be very telling. Every day to and from work I pay attention to what's been run over lately. I often see deer carcasses, woodchucks, raccoons, opossums, squirrels and...
View ArticleM'Wasi the lion: Will there be cubs? And other answers from Syracuse zoo...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Keepers at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo have successfully introduced M'Wasi, a 15-year-old male African lion from the Bronx Zoo, to Syracuse's long-time female lion Kierha. Kierha came to...
View ArticleHummingbird Haven
Hang the feeder and grab the camera! Throughout May, hummingbirds will be returning en masse to Howard County from their wintering grounds in Central America. The smallest of the world’s birds, these...
View ArticleLions benefit from elephant poaching in Mozambique park
JOHANNESBURG: The lion population has increased in a major wildlife park in Mozambique partly because heavy poaching of elephants has provided the carnivores with a bounty of carcasses to eat as well...
View ArticleSyracuse zoo has a new baby animal you probably can't pronounce
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The Syracuse zoo has a new baby muntjac. The female fawn was born Sept. 19. Her name is Kya. A muntjac is a small deer native to...
View ArticleRoadkill counter is an app for that splat
The dirty business of counting doe DOAs has gone high-tech, courtesy of a Utah State University team that developed a smartphone application to chart collisions between motor vehicles and animals....
View ArticleShark Bites Off More Than It Can Chew, Chokes On Sea Lion
Even a shark has to chew before it swallows. In a peculiar event that is almost too odd to seem true, a 13-foot great white shark in Australia died after choking on a sea lion. This video of a shark...
View ArticleOne for All, and All for Hunt
SOUTH LUANGWA NATIONAL PARK, Zambia: We saw the impala first, a young buck with a proud set of ridged and twisted horns, like helical rebar, bounding across the open plain at full, desperate gallop....
View ArticleSoutheast Missouri couple passes hummingbird torch (Missouri Department of...
(Source: Missouri Department of Conservation) Published on: Mar. 25, 2014 Posted by CAPE GIRARDEAU-When hummingbirds arrive in the area of Cape Girardeau this spring, they will be looking for new...
View ArticleWhite Sharks Might Feed On Whale Sharks
Being the biggest fish in the sea is no guarantee of a place at the top of the food chain, as evidenced by the discovery of two whale shark vertebrae in the stomach of a white shark. Aside from...
View ArticleIn rare first, striped hyenas sighted in Dudhwa tiger reserve
LUCKNOW: The intensive camera trappings at the Dudhwa tiger reserve have sprung up another surprise. For the first time, two packs of striped hyenas have been sighted in the reserve, thereby ushering...
View ArticleRoadkill Hot Spots on California’s Highways Identified in Report (University...
(Source: University of California - Davis) A new report of vehicle and wildlife collisions along California's highways combines roadkill data with preliminary crash data to identify hot spots that...
View ArticleLost deer fawn brought to Kanan Pendari zoo
Bilaspur: A male spotted deer fawn that was found lost in forest division of Kawardha has been brought to Kanan Pendari zoo here. Zoo authorities have arranged for a goat to feed the fawn. According to...
View ArticleBird flu scare: BBP stops feeding chicken to zoo carnivores
In wake of bird flu scare in Karnataka, the Bannerghatta Biological park (BBP) has stopped feeding poultry to the zoo carnivores. A circular has also been issued by the Zoo Authority of Karnataka (ZAK)...
View ArticleFood for thought
You are what you eat, at least, that’s what we’ve always been told. Thus, if you’re carnivorous, you’re bloodthirsty, have huge ugly canines, are violent, aggressive and drool a lot, and spend your...
View ArticleCarnivorous Bats Evolved Special Skulls
Researchers studying bat skulls reveal that the carnivorous ones who eat vertebrates – like frogs, lizards, birds, mice, and other bats – are larger and produce stronger bite forces than those who feed...
View ArticleAncient Hypercarnivores Reined In Mammoths And Other Megaherbivores
Ancient hypercarnivores such as dire wolves, cave hyenas, and saber-toothed cats – whose diets consisted of 80% meat – were up to twice the size of the wolves, spotted hyenas, and lions we have today....
View ArticleBrew at the Zoo: Drinking to raise money for a new elephant pool and other...
By Tobias Nguyen More than 2,000 people gathered Friday night to drink for a good cause at the 19th annual "Brew at the Zoo" fundraiser, sponsored by the Friends of Rosamond Gifford Zoo. The guests...
View ArticleFoggers, sprinklers, ponds cool zoo inmates
LUCKNOW: Rising temperature got inmates of Lucknow Zoo feeling uneasy and authorities have made special arrangements to provide relief and comfort to them. Besides air-coolers and sprinklers put...
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