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Scientists are learning more about how zoo animals feel and how a toy or a little training can sometimes help cut the endless pacing and other repetitive behaviors that are often assumed to be signs of distress.
Some big cats want a high perch from whi..
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Japan's oldest giant panda, Ling Ling, a longtime star at Tokyo's largest zoo and a symbol of friendship with China, died Wednesday of heart failure, zookeepers said.
Ling Ling was 22 years and seven months old, equivalent to about 70 human years, the..
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A new breeding program at the Memphis Zoo could nearly double the known population of an endangered frog species.
Biologists estimate there are only about 100 adult Mississippi gopher frogs left in the wild, but zoo officials say they’ve successfully..
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The Nuremberg zoo's celebrity polar bear cub, Flocke, has ventured outdoors for the first time.
The three-month old Flocke — German for "Flake," as in snowflake — had a private early-morning outing before the zoo opened, the Nuremberg city governme..
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At the Brookfield Zoo, cicadas are a lot more than just really noisy insects: They're delicious. These days, a host of animals from bearded dragon lizards to African wild dogs to white-crested laughing thrush birds are enjoying cicadas.
And zoo nutriti..
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