Following the first extended closure in its 103-year history as a worldwide animal education and conservation leader, the San Diego Zoo had a successful reopening weekend despite an increase in Covid-19 cases in the city and across the Golden State.
Read moreSince zoos across the country shuttered their doors to visitors to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, they’ve tapped their creativity to keep supporters engaged and money flowing. The result? Animal live-web cam shows have gone viral and drive-through zoo car tours have sold out.
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Kira, a 2-1/2-year-old tiger, arrived at a zoo in Mexico’s northeast in April after her owner could no longer feed her due to the coronavirus-induced economic collapse.
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Netflix star Joe Exotic lamented behind bars Tuesday a court order turning over his former Oklahoma zoo to nemesis Carole Baskin to satisfy a $1 million trademark judgment.
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A federal judge granted Carole Baskin’s Big Cat Rescue control Monday of imprisoned reality TV star Joe Exotic’s former zoo properties in Oklahoma, finding they were fraudulently transferred to avoid paying her under a $1 million trademark judgment.
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A tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the new coronavirus, in what is believed to be the first known infection in an animal in the United States or a tiger anywhere, federal officials and the zoo said Sunday.
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The popular Netflix docuseries “Tiger King” prompted a Florida sheriff to reopen a cold case involving the missing former husband of the big cat sanctuary owner featured in the show.
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Blonde-mulleted zookeeper Joe Exotic, star of the Netflix docuseries “Tiger King,” filed a $93 million lawsuit claiming authorities selectively prosecuted him while turning a blind eye to other violations of the Endangered Species Act.
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A private Florida zoo violated federal law by allowing patrons to handle, pet and swim with tiger cubs, a judge ruled late Tuesday.
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Ruling reluctantly Wednesday against activists fighting to free an elephant held in solitary captivity at the Bronx Zoo, a New York judge said her hands are tied by her inability to recognize Happy the elephant’s rights to personhood.
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A Southern California aquarium has successfully bred the rare weedy sea dragon, the lesser known cousin of the sea horse that resembles seaweed when floating.
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Animal rights advocates sued a Wisconsin roadside zoo Wednesday claiming squalid living conditions for hundreds of the zoo’s animals, including two endangered tigers.
Read moreA mother sued Exotic Animal Exhibits dba It’s a Zoo Life in Carteret County, N.C., Superior Court, claiming one of the lemurs in its petting zoo attacked her minor son.
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A flamboyant Oklahoma zookeeper known as Joe Exotic was sentenced Wednesday to over two decades in federal prison for trying to hire a hit man to kill a rival animal sanctuary operator in Florida.
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Three women are under investigation in Germany for launching paper sky lanterns for the new year which apparently ignited a devastating fire that killed more than 30 animals at a zoo, officials said Thursday.
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The hatching of two storks on a bamboo platform in a remote Indian zoo has raised hopes that one of the world’s most threatened bird species can be saved, experts say.
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The Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City is celebrating its second baby giraffe of the year, already as tall as a full-grown human.
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Slamming the “fetid and dystopic conditions” of a Maryland zoo, a federal judge ordered Thursday that any animals that managed to survive must be transferred to a sanctuary.
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Eight fluffy macaroni penguin chicks have been born at the Kansas City Zoo.
Read moreA rare southern white rhino was born at a zoo in Belgium, boosting efforts to save the endangered species, the park said on Monday.
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