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Calgary school libraries to embrace iPod
Calgary :: Canada | about 1 month ago
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Libraries in Calgary public schools are planning to make way for iPods among the stacks of books. Shocked neighbours who live near a northeast Calgary home where the bodies of a woman and three infants were found are wondering if they could have done...
Tiger injures overnight zoo intruder
Calgary :: Canada | 2 months ago
Credibility A man who got into the Calgary Zoo and scaled the outer perimeter fence around the tiger enclosure is in the hospital with serious injuries, zoo officials said...Monday to get into the zoo and one of them approached the inside fence of the tiger enclosure.
Tags: calgary zoo, zoo officials, tigers enclosure, tigers exhibit, safety fence, siberian tigers
Alberta family mystified at passport border seizure
Calgary :: Canada | 2 months ago
Credibility Health officials have issued an advisory to residents of Calgary and other communities about smoke from a forest fire deliberately set in the Kananaskis. A family from Taber, Alta. Canada-U.S. border in Coutts. Calgary's city-owned electric company...
Tags: Calgary Zoo, Calgary Flames, Alberta, Canada, Calgary
Zoo's knife-wielding gorilla
Calgary :: Canada | 5 months ago
Credibility Calgary — The Canadian Press, Wednesday, Jun. 17, 2009 07:32PM EDT T here's no gorilla warfare going on at the Calgary Zoo. Photographs taken after a keeper accidentally left a knife in the zoo's gorilla enclosure appear to tell a menacing story. One...
Tags: Calgary Zoo, troop mate, Calgaryâ, wielding gorilla, accidentally left
Two new stingrays die at Calgary Zoo, a year after deaths of 41 stingrays
Calgary :: Canada | 8 months ago
Credibility Two more stingrays have died at the Calgary Zoo and officials are blaming it on a shipping problem. Forty-one of the animals died about a year ago soon after the opening of an interactive exhibit where people could pet them in the water. Last month the...
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Activists seek inquiry at Calgary Zoo
Calgary :: Canada | 10 months ago
Credibility Animal welfare advocates want an independent inquiry into operations at the Calgary Zoo, where several animals have died in recent years, in light of the facility's admission this week that "human error" is almost certainly to blame for the deaths of...
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Zoo visitors horrified by goat's strangulation
Delhi :: Canada | 10 months ago
Credibility Visitors to the Calgary Zoo were horrified yesterday after a wild goat got caught in a rope and strangled. Aubrey Williams, 26, got to the zoo about noon with her daughters -- a two-year-old and a five-month-old -- as well as her grandparents when they...
Tags: goat, calgary zoo, wild goat
Animal protection group slams Calgary Zoo for restocking stingray exhibit
Calgary :: Canada | 11 months ago
Credibility An Ontario-based animal protection group says it makes no sense for the Calgary Zoo to restock its cownose stingray exhibit with more of the creatures, after dozens of them died seven months ago. Zoo officials couldn't determine what killed the 41 rays,...
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Calgary Zoo to reopen stingray exhibit
Calgary :: Canada | 11 months ago
Credibility Zoo officials still don't know what killed 41 stingrays. (CBC) The Calgary Zoo is planning to reopen its stingray exhibit seven months after the unexplained death of 41 rays. The first shipment of five stingrays has already arrived at the zoo, and another...
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Calgary zoo visitors, staff mourn elephant calf
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility Malti was born at the Calgary Zoo in August 2007. (Submitted by Irene Bain) The future of the elephant breeding program at the Calgary Zoo is uncertain after a calf died from a virus that attacked her blood cells.
Tags: Malti, calgary zoo
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