Dear Colleagues,
The Zoo news mailing list is now being mailed out to over 600 people in
zoos around the world each week. Inevitably there will be problems with
the occasional double mailing. If you get one of these please let me know
so that I can correct the problem. Equally if the list is of no interest
to you , tell me and I will remove your name from the mail out. So I am a
day late with the mail out yet again. Seems to be the rule rather than the
exception. I was tired out on my return late night after a nine hour drive
to collect a Silvery Marmoset from Shaldon Zoo. The trip was only that
long because a bolt broke in the car engine causing no end of problems. We
managed to make temporary repairs using a candy floss stick and some
horses mane plaiting thread. Not the ideal, but it got us 300+ miles. My
first trip to Shaldon Zoo. Well worth a visit. Beautifully kept animals in
a collection covering just an acre of ground
Retired nurse converts back yard into squirrel sanctuary
(Montgomery City Zoo)
http://flash.al.com/cgi-bin/al_nview.pl?/home1/wire/AP/Stream-
Parsed/BAMA_NEWS/j5985_PM_AL--SquirrelNurse
Frogmore set to build frog zoo
http://www.abc.net.au/news/regionals/orange/regor-19oct1998-3.htm
Engineer dies when St. Louis Zoo train jumps the tracks
http://www2.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/nation/101698/nation17_14334_noframes.h
tml
Man Dies in Zoo Train Derailment
http://www.newsday.com/ap/rnmpnt1j.htm
German throws himself to lions in apparent suicide
http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9810/16/RB001287.reut.html
LION KILLS MAN AT ZOO
(Nuremberg zoo)
http://www.xtra.co.nz/newsfeed/inews/story8.html
Defenders of Wildlife Launch Wolf Country Beef Program in N.M.
(Albuquerque Biological Park's Rio Grande Zoo)
http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/1015-137.txt
Looking Up
(The Los Angeles Zoo)
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/STATE/t000093928.1.html
Mountain lion in zoo celebrates 10th birthday
(Southern Nevada Zoological-Botanical Park)
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1998/Oct-16-Fri-1998/weekly/8367934.html
BEES HELP BROOKFIELD ZOO'S KIDS AREA GROW
http://chicagotribune.com/version1/article/0,1575,SAV-9810160211,00.html
Land of lemurs to get another lemur landing from Duke
(The Duke Primate Center)
http://www.news-observer.com/daily/1998/10/16/tri12.html
Pygmy hippo suffering from spinal aliments dies at zoo
(Reid Park Zoo)
http://www.azstarnet.com/public/dnews/1016r1.html
Poll: Icelanders indifferent about Keiko's arrival
http://flash.oregonlive.com/cgi-bin/or_nview.pl?/home1/wire/AP/Stream-
Parsed/OREGON_NEWS/o0405_AM_OR--Keiko'sReception
PETA pickets New England aquarium for serving fish in its cafeteria
http://www.cnn.com/TRAVEL/NEWS/9810/16/fish.protest/index.html
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey(R) Donates $20,000 to Support Asian
Elephant Research and Care
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-
16- 1998/0000773892&EDATE=
First-ever elephant breeding park at Ellahera
http://www.lanka.net/lakehouse/1998/10/12/new24.html
Desperately Seeking Eligible Elephants
http://reuters.townnews.com/reuters/index.inn?story=/stories/ODD-ELEPHANTS
.htm
Desperately seeking eligible elephants
http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/etcetera/wires/1015/e_rt_1015
_4.sml
Elephant conservation awareness campaign
http://www.lanka.net/lakehouse/1998/10/13/new20.html
New wildlife enclosure planned for central Australia
http://www.abc.net.au/news/regionals/alice/regalice-13oct1998-2.htm
Indian star held in antelope killing
http://www.bergen.com/morenews/antelope19981013a.htm
Salman Khan's remand extended
http://www.allindia.com/news/newstoday.asp?in_id=0006861025&in_cat=00000
Salman Khan in police custody
http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/19981014/28750694.html
Movie stars learn a "deer'' lesson
http://www.foxnews.com/etcetera/wires/1013/e_rt_1013_8.sml
Pet python puts the squeeze on her owner
http://www.msnbc.com/local/WVIT/119167.asp
BONNIE ERBE: Saving the Bengal tiger
http://www2.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/voices/101398/voices15_12400_noframes.h
tml
Arizona loses king of its bald eagles
http://www.azcentral.com/news/1011eagle.shtml
Lost boa gives U-Haul worker tale to tell
http://www.denverpost.com/news/news1015f.htm
Lecture
(St. Louis Zoo)
http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/news/pdtoday.nsf/News/35BDF3FD53B50160862566
9E0005A4 2D?OpenDocument
Zoo adds more trunk space
(Cincinnati Zoo)
http://enquirer.com/editions/1998/10/15/loc_elephant15.html
Checkups give rare view of bonobo development
(Milwaukee County Zoo)
http://www.jsonline.com/news/1015bonobo.asp
WHALE SUPERSTAR DIES ON CONN. VISIT
http://www.nypost.com/news/6645.htm
Aquarium says whale died from bacterial infection
http://www.msnbc.com/local/WVIT/118855.asp
Killer whales' sea otter feast may indicate troubled ocean environment
http://web3.stlnet.com/postnet/news/wires.nsf/National/B89BF33C8D8CDCA4862
5669F000142 68
Cow chips for a zoo
http://www.msnbc.com/local/KCBD/9293.asp
Sacramento Zoo's Web site honored
http://www.sacbee.com/news/beetoday/newsroom/biz/101498/biz04.html
Site of the Week:
The Zoological Society of San Diego
http://www.enn.com/features/1998/10/101398/sow.asp
Monkey may only get 50% hand use
(Dusit Zoo)
http://www.bangkokpost.com/today/141098_News13.html
The zoo is not about profits
(Dusit Zoo) http://www.bangkokpost.com/today/141098_News31.html
KHAO DIN CONTROVERSY
(Dusit Zoo)
http://www.bangkokpost.com/today/141098_News22.html
A lion’s tale
http://www.msnbc.com/local/WLBT/28832.asp
Mayor rallies for ‘Zoo Proposition’
(Los Angeles Zoo)
http://www.msnbc.com/local/KNBC/28973.asp
Elephant lady shares devotion
http://enquirer.com/columns/knip/1998/10/101398jk.html
Bedford resident says he's not hackled by grackles
http://www.startext.net/news/doc/1047/1:NE22/1:NE22101298.html
Zoo improvement funding leads city council's agenda
(Topeka Zoo)
http://cjonline.com/stories/101298/com_citycouncil.shtml
City officials give media tour of Topeka zoo
http://www.msnbc.com/local/KSNT/10417.asp
Interim zoo director appointed
http://cjonline.com/stories/101498/com_zoodirector.shtml
It's unbearable: Zoo's pair trades Pittsburgh pad for cooler digs
(Detroit Zoo, Pittsburgh Zoo)
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/19981012bears5.asp
Four More Lemurs To Be Released Into Madagascar Jungle This Fall
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/10/981012073550.htm
Terms of development
(Buffalo zoo)
http://www.amcity.com/buffalo/stories/101298/editorial1.html
Alipore zoo is too cramped, says Lodha
http://www.timesofindia.com/today/12indi14.htm
Wolf exhibit a winner for Tucson firm
(Cleveland (Ohio) Metroparks Zoo)
http://www.azstarnet.com/public/dnews/140-8439.html
Tigers moved from high-rise cage to Lop Buri zoo
http://www.bangkokpost.com/today/111098_News15.html
Things are looking up for the Dehiwala zoo
http://www.lanka.net/lakehouse/1998/10/11/new16.html
Treating wild animals: a new challenge
http://www.webpage.com/hindu/daily/981011/09/09111083.htm
Popular Lincoln Pk. Zoo gorilla dead at 37
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/mim11i.html
ZOO LOSES MUMBI, A TRULY GREAT APE
http://chicagotribune.com/version1/article/0,1575,SAV-9810110214,00.html
Mumbi, popular Lincoln Park Zoo gorilla, euthanized
http://web3.stlnet.com/postnet/news/wires.nsf/StateRegion/EA659CC5B3B8B187
862566990079 F60C
Rhino ride at Hogle Zoo is much better in warmer weather
http://www.desnews.com/cit/yw0mkv99.htm
Zoo contract inked without transparency
(Dusit Zoo)
http://www.bangkokpost.com/today/101098_News07.html
LA students propose zoo replace live elephants with computerized version
http://www.sacbee.com/news/calreport/wrapper.cgi/N80.html
Last Partula turgida snail at London Zoo
http://www.the-times.co.uk/
Python retrieved after Tempe jaunt
http://www.azcentral.com/sev/news/1009python.shtml
Pupils Trumpet Their Indignation at Elephants' Fate
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/STATE/t000091682.1.html
Lake Tahoe area wrestling with its bear problem
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1998/Oct-09-Fri-1998/news/8365669.html
Zoo's Elephant House will close Oct. 19
(St. Louis Zoo)
http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/news/pdtoday.nsf/News/9D76DBAFFEAD6D67862566
980024 AE90?OpenDocument
Skull collector charged with smuggling is sentenced
http://web3.stlnet.com/postnet/news/wires.nsf/StateRegion/91BE34C6556A2A8A
86256698002 B44C4
Penguin fight: Never mind the formalities
(New Jersey State Aquarium)
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/98/Oct/09/city/CPEN09.htm
A journalist in the zoo
(Wierd) http://frontierpost.com.pk/art2oct-18.html
Situations Vacant
Senior Keeper & Keeper required by The Royal Zoological Society of
Scotland for posts in Edinburgh Zoo. Candidates should have the City &
Guilds Diploma in Animal Management or equivalent and have a good working
knowledge of primates. The Senior position requires a minimum of five
years experience in animal keeping and managing people. Letter of
application and CV to Dr M. Gore, Head of Animal Department, RZSS,
Edinburgh Zoo, Murrayfield, Edinburgh, EH12 6TS
For the most up to date links to sites advertising Zoo work go to:
http://members.tripod.com/~Sciurus/index.html
Meetings
American Association of Zoo Veterinarians Annual Conference
Oct 17-22 1998
for more details contact:
75634.235@compuserve.com
The Zoo Registrars Association Meeting
Oct 22-24 1998
For more details contact:
gbickert@colszoo.org
Komodo Dragon Conference
Parc Zoologique de Thoiry, France
4- 7th November 1998
For further details contact :
Parc Zoologique de Thoiry - 78770 Thoiry, France
Tel : 01 30 88 51 53
Fax : 01 34 87 54 12
26th Annual I.M.A.T.A Conference
Zoomarine-Portugal
7 - 12 November 1998
For further details contact :
Geraldine Lacave on
geraldine.lacave@skynet.be
International Conference on Wetlands & Development
Dakar, Senegal
8 - 14 November 1998
For further details contact :
post@wetlands.agro.nl
Canadian Parrot Symposium
Toronto
14th - 16th November 1998
For further details contact :
Mike Pearson on
cwparrot@worldchat.com
British Zoo Educators` Conference
Bristol Zoo
20 - 22 November 1998
For further details contact :
Education Department on
0117 970 6176
Symposium on Carnivore Conservation
Zoological Society of London
20/21 November 1998
For further details contact :
Zoological Society of London
Regent`s Park
London
NW1 4RY
1st European Zoo Nutrition Conference
Jan 8 - 11 1999
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
for more details contact:
J.Nijboer@inter.nl.net
ABWAK 25th Celebration, Then, Now & the Future
April 17 - 18 1999
Marwell Zoological Park
for more details contact:
lgdb@pinnipedia.demon.co.uk
7th World Conference on Breeding Endangered Species
May 22 - 26 1999
Cincinnati Zoo, Ohio, USA
for more details contact:
Grace Rettig (Fax 1-513-559-7791)
ECM 3rd European Congress of Mammalogy
Jyvaskyla, Finland
May 30- June 4 1999
For further details contact :
congresses@conf.jyu.fi
Fourth International Enrichment Conference
29th August-3rd September 1999
Edinburgh, Scotland.
Details as and when available from the Shape of Enrichment website:
http://www.enrichment.org
Help Wanted
One of my Animal Management trainees is researching bedding as an
enrichment experience for chimpanzees. It is coming together quite nicely
after three months of work. She mailed out questionnaires to a huge number
of zoos with quite a disappointing response. From within the UK all
replied except for three. From the US only three replied!!(So far?) If
you can help please e-mail me and I will send you a questionnaire to
complete. If you work with chimpanzees it will take no longer than 7
minutes. I promise. Full credit will be given to those who do help. Many
thanks.
Don`t forget ZooChat, it has its moments! Curators, Keepers, Vets,
Researchers letting their hair down at the end of the day. Very
lighthearted most of the time. Serious some of the time. Useful for making
contacts and generally having fun. THE BOARD is a useful place for posting
your interests. http://ns.awebpresence.com/cgi-lasmith/ZCboard.pl
Most e-mail packages will allow you to point and click on the site
address. This should launch your web browser and send you directly to the
site. If your package will not do this you will have to use cut and paste.
Cutting from this e-mail and pasting in your browsers address
column...then press return and away you go! The other problem you may have
is that the site address is longer than the page width. You will have to
cut and paste twice, taking care that you marry to the two halves exactly.
Some of these links are quite short lived, but I have checked them all
today and they all work.. If you have a problem, do let me know.
Zoo News is currently sent to over 625 interested parties worldwide each
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Kind Regards,
Wishing you a wonderful week,
Peter
