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Giant pandas from China make invitation-only debut at Toronto Zoo
Toronto :: Canada | 8 days ago
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A pair of giant pandas on loan from China made their debut at the Toronto Zoo today, but only one of them seemed to embrace the spotlight. Da Mao, the four-year-old male, strutted outside and ate bamboo, basking in the attention from dozens of guests
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Jason Pottinger ponders post-football career via panda b-school exercise
Toronto :: Canada | 9 days ago
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Two and a half months after Jason Pottinger won his second Grey Cup, the Argonauts linebacker found himself in another contest fighting for pandas in a York University classroom. The stakes were a little different than on the gridiron: The Toronto
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Pattycake may be gone, but famous gorilla's offspring live on
New York City :: NY :: USA | 26 days ago
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Stories When beloved Bronx Zoo gorilla Pattycake died last month, she left New Yorkers and fans around the world in mourning...The 40-year-old primate gave birth to 10 children over the years, now scattered in zoos across the country. We tracked down
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Calgary Zoo's Effort to Conserve Whooping Cranes gets Funding Boost
Ottawa :: Canada | 1 month ago
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We are proud of the contribution the Calgary Zoo has made over the past two decades toward securing a future for whooping cranes in North America. Clement Lanthier, Calgary Zoo Just around the time that whooping cranes are heading back from their
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Calgary zookeeper loses job after gorillas discover the kitchen
Ottawa :: Canada | 2 months ago
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Photos Save to mystar Photos View gallery They're good gorillas, but they're always very curious. And one zookeeper is out of a job because of their curiosity and human error. Last Friday, several gorillas wandered from their enclosure at the Calgary
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Zookeeper injured after gorillas get into kitchen
Calgary :: Canada | 3 months ago
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Curious apes raised some ruckus in a Calgary Zoo kitchen Friday, leaving a zookeeper injured. It's not clear, said zoo officials, exactly how an unknown number of gorillas ventured into a kitchen connected to their enclosure, about 9:15 a.m. There
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Polar bear cub introduced at Buffalo Zoo
Buffalo :: NY :: USA | 3 months ago
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N.Y. (AP) A 3-month-old polar bear cub has made its public debut at the Buffalo Zoo . The fluffy white cub was introduced Friday as the zoo announced the next phase of fundraising for a new $18 million polar bear exhibit...The Buffalo Zoo says it's
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Toronto-bound pandas were coming to mate, except they're both females
Toronto :: Canada | 6 months ago
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It turns out that a giant panda, thought to be male and set to come to the Toronto Zoo from China in the spring, is actually female. The surprise discovery happened when researchers in China collected and analyzed blood samples from the panda named
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Calgary Zoo mourns stillborn elephant
Upi :: Philippines | 7 months ago
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Workers at the Calgary Zoo in Alberta were in mourning Thursday over a stillborn elephant calf born five months early, zoo officials said. The mother Asian elephant, Maharani, was reportedly calm before delivering the dead male calf early Wednesday,
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The caterpillar and the gorillas | video | @GrrlScientist
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
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The caterpillar and the gorillas video The Calgary Zoo's gorillas take a inquisitive interest in a caterpillar that was making a trip across a door in their enclosure I think this is just a really sweet video. On it's surface, it's cute, but if you
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