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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AFP) — Four Bengal tigers have been born in an El Salvador animal park that runs an endangered-species reproduction program, the facility announced Wednesday. The cubs arrived in December to the tiger pair Lily and Papo that are being kept in the 0.6-square-mile (1.6-square-kilometer) private Furesa wildlife refuge in the southeastern town of Jayaque, the center’s veterinarian, Luis Martinez, told AFP. It was the second litter for the two adult tigers. […]
MECHELEN, BELGIUM (Reuters) — Belgium’s Planckendael Zoo welcomed a new arrival on Thursday (January 19), a baby giraffe born from mother Megara, who was also born in the zoo. Video released by the zoo showed the birth, with the mother standing and the baby falling about two meters. Megara gave birth in the morning before dawn when caretakers were not there, but the zoo said the mother and her baby were doing well. It was […]
BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) — The youngest polar bear cub in Berlin’s Tierpark zoo learned a lesson in eating politely on Monday (January 23). The cub was digging into a piece of steak in front of the room’s camera, only for his mother Tonja to take the food away to a more private area. On January 12, the small polar bear was revealed to be a boy through first medical-check up. A Berlin radio station and […]
by Hla Hla HTAY and Caroline HENSHAW Agence France-Presse Mount Kyaikhteeyoe, Myanmar (AFP) — Under the shadow of Myanmar’s famed “Golden Rock” punters haggle for the latest traditional medicine cure — slices of skin from the country’s fast disappearing wild elephants sold for a few dollars a square inch. A set of stairs winds behind one of the Buddhist country’s most holy sites to a maze of shops openly selling everything from pieces of ivory and […]
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (Reuters) — A zoo in Russian southern city of Rostov-on-Don welcomed a new-born elephant female calf born on Wednesday (January 18) from two 11-year-old Asian elephants Sinta and Yuma. “An elephant calf stood up immediately (after the birth) and started eating. In about an hour it started eating. You can see now it is sleepy. This particular calf sleeps while standing up. Sitara used to sleep while laying down. It seems to be […]
FUZHOU CITY, FUJIAN PROVINCE, China (Reuters) — Basi, the world’s oldest panda in captivity celebrated her 37th birthday on Wednesday (January 18) in southern China’s Fujian province, state media reported. Basi is the inspiration for Pan Pan, the mascot for the 1990 Beijing Asian Games. Panda fans from all over the world including the UK, Switzerland and Japan came to Fuzhou Panda World to attend the birthday celebration, said the CCTV report. Basi, whose age […]
PRAZ DE LYS-SOMMAND, France (Reuters) — High in the French Alps, musher Remy Coste has taken the early lead of La Grande Odyssee (The Great Odyssey) dog sled race. The race is an 11-day trek over a 670 kilometre (415 mile) course which organisers say feels more like 1,000 km for the dogs and their handlers because of its 20,000 meter elevation. Set among snow-capped mountains between Savoie and Haute-Savoie in France, 500 dogs will […]
Fu Feng and Fu Ban, the panda twins conceived naturally and born at Vienna zoo, make their first steps out of their hollow tree. https://youtu.be/6hJQ2VWAVPQ
FORT MYERS, Florida (Reuters) — The first of two bald eagle eggs that millions of people have been watching online hatched early Saturday morning (December 31) in Fort Myers, Florida. Two bald eagles named Harriet and M15 have been patiently waiting for the first eagle to break out of its shell after pipping began Thursday with the first cracks in the shell. The pipping process can be arduous and take between 24 to 48 hours, […]
PEKIN, China (AFP) — China will ban all ivory trade and processing by the end of 2017, the government said, in a move hailed by conservationists as a “game changer” for African elephants. African ivory is highly sought after in China, where it is seen as a status symbol, with prices for a kilo (2.2 pounds) reaching as high as $1,100. “To better protect elephants and better tackle the illegal trade… China will gradually stop […]
by Ben Sheppard Agence France-Presse HARTBEESPOORT, South Africa (AFP) — Lounging in the shade of a tree, Heathcliff the cheetah oozes sleek grace and power, but he is captive behind a wire fence — perhaps the only way that cheetahs will exist in a few decades’ time. A major survey released last week revealed that just 7,100 adult cheetahs remain in the wild, and that the species faces extinction without urgent new protection measures. At […]
QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters) — A lucky jaguar in Ecuador is getting a new lease on life after recovering in a Quito veterinary clinic where she was brought with a shotgun wound some two and a half months ago. The jaguar, which has been named D’yaira, was brought to a University San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) animal hospital with 18 shotgun pellet wounds. One of the pellets was lodged in the big cat’s spinal cord causing paralysis […]
