Zoo news

Des Moines zoo artificially inseminates Amur tiger

Chicago Tribune - Jan 26, 2012
DES MOINES, Iowa— Officials at the Blank Park Zoo are hoping nature takes over after zoo experts artificially inseminated a rare Amur tiger. The zoo's pair had failed to breed naturally over the years, so the zoo called in experts from the Cincinnati ...

Ohio zoo's orangutan first in North America with newer brand of implanted ...

Daily Mail

Washington Post - Jan 25, 2012
CLEVELAND — A Cleveland Clinic women's health specialist has made a house call at the zoo to demonstrate how to fit an orangutan with a newer brand of implanted birth-control device. The Plain Dealer reports (http://bit.ly/xTqClI ) the Cleveland ...

Zoo animals seized; permit issues cited

HSUS News

Hattiesburg American - Jan 26, 2012
9:47 pm HSUS raids Collins Zoo: HSUS raids Collins Zoo Jan. 25, 2012. Rowdy Shaw and Adam Parascondola with the Humane Society of the United States carry one of the sedated female tigers from her cage at the Collins Zoo to a transport carrier.

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Zoo books

Dear Zoo: A Lift-the-Flap Book

by: Rod Campbell
Dear Zoo is twenty-five years old -- and still as popular as ever!

And with an updated look, this classic children's storybook about a youngster loooking for a perfect pet is sure to delight a new generation of readers!

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We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals that Changed T

by: Benjamin Mee

The remarkable true story of a family who move into a rundown zoo–already a BBC documentary miniseries and excerpted in The Guardian.

In the market for a house and an adventure, Benjamin Mee moved his family to an unlikely new home: a dilapidated zoo in the English countryside. Mee had a dream to refurbish the zoo and run it as a family business. His friends and colleagues thought he was crazy.

But in 2006, Mee and his wife with their two children, his brother, and his 76-year-old mother moved into the Dartmoor Wildlife Park.
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Life of Pi

by: Yann Martel
The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes.

The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea.
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A Sick Day for Amos McGee

by: Philip C. Stead
The Best Sick Day Ever and the animals in the zoo feature in this striking picture book debut. Friends come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. In Amos McGee’s case, all sorts of species, too! Every day he spends a little bit of time with each of his friends at the zoo, running races with the tortoise, keeping the shy penguin company, and even reading bedtime stories to the owl. But when Amos is too sick to make it to the zoo, his animal friends decide it’s time they returned the favor.
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