Recently, a 4-year-old boy fell into a gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo. About ten minutes later, Harambe, a 17-year-old western lowland gorilla who interacted with the boy in the enclosure was brutally shot with a rifle and killed. After Harambe’s senseless killing, the child was taken to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital with “non-life threatening […]
Happy Chinese New Year! The Sheep Wool Rise
It’s time to ram into the Chinese New Year, with a running start! The Chinese New Year is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. The year 4713 begins on February 19, 2015. The celebration continues on until February 24th. Each year is represented by an animal, referred to as “The Chinese […]
Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia
Sydney Australia’s world-class Taronga Zoo offers a first-hand view of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Mascots. Syd, the Platypus When the first platypus specimens were sent back to England from Australia after European Settlement in 1788, they were thought to be elaborate hoaxes. They appeared to be cleverly created from a number of animals, including a […]
A Congo Forest… In The Bronx
A young child in the front breaks the crowd’s trance, crying out, “It looks just like us!” This is what the Congo Forest is all about. With 300 animals of 75 species within 6.5 acres of breathtakingly well-simulated tropical forest, New York City’s 100-year-old Bronx Zoo is now (since June of this year) host to […]
Baghdad Zoo: Restoring a Safe Haven for Animals
The Baghdad Zoo used to be the largest zoo in the Middle East. Despite being in the middle of the desert, it spanned 300 acres of beautiful open lawn. It held 650 animals and received 1.5 million visitors between 2001 and 2002. However, once the war in Iraq began, this recreational area became a battlefield. […]
Mountain of Rebuilding: Tiger Mountain, A New Exhibit at the Bronx Zoo
Mountain of Rebuilding Tiger Mountain, a new exhibit at the Bronx Zoo, hopes to educate while regenerating. Beneath the pressing foot of Natural Selection, the number Siberian tigers, ‘one of eight subspecies’ of tigers, all of which are endangered, has dwindled to a worldwide estimate of between 200 and 400. Though they remain the most recognizable […]