The loggerhead shrike, also known as the 'butcher bird', employs a feeding strategy that would have been right at home in 15th Century Transylvania. Like the infamous Vlad the Impaler…
An okapi calf born this spring at the Bronx Zoo made its first public appearance, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society. The endangered forest giraffe, which has been named Mbaya, is…
A female prickly leatherjacket triggerfish Chaetodermis penicilligerus underwent an operation to remove a benign tumor from her tail at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) Zoo. Named Prudence, the fish…
In a rescue operation that sounds straight out of an action film, 50 mountain chicken frogs were airlifted from the Caribbean island Montserrat after the discovery of Chytridomycosis, a fungal…
The Wildlife Conservation Society announced today that a 42-year-old western lowland gorilla named Fubo received a free MRI scan after suffering a seizure at his home in the Bronx Zoo's…
Elephants die significantly earlier in zoos than in wild Elephants die significantly earlier in zoos than in wild Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com December 11, 2008
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> Zoos: Why a Revolution is Necessary to Justify Them Zoos: Why a Revolution is Necessary to Justify Them Jeremy Leon Hance, mongabay.com October 6,…