Zoo News Digest 14th August 2018 (ZooNews 1004)
Photo Credit Rasik Chavda
Peter Dickinson
elvinhow@gmail.com
Dear Colleague,
I am a bit disappointed about the relocation of Dusit Zoo. If it really and sincerely is about improving the husbandry and giving more space however then I will be happy to go along with it. The vacated green space then in the heart of Bangkok should then remain as a park and not turned over to more offices and hotels. Will it or won't it? Another thing is the new zoo is over 40 Km away and will be just too far away for many. The relocation of the Dubai Zoo out to the Dubai Safari has lost the core of its most loyal visitors by moving out to next to the Dragon Mart....just too far away. Too expensive for most to reach. Although it has been quiet for a while now I imagine talks of moving Surabaya Zoo will once again start to appear in the press. There have been a few stories about moving some of the Indian Zoos in recent years. It is all a bit sad. City Zoos are important. More important than office blocks anyway.
The video of the Ostrich attack was quite disturbing. I am glad the keeper was not too badly injured. I have seen just what a rutting male Ostrich can do. I once had to extricate a keeper from a 10 foot tall Acacia tree. He had been kicked into the top of it and could not move for the thorns in his body. Since my earliest days in zoos I was told that if you were attacked the best thing to do was to lay flat on the ground. It wasn't however till around thirty years ago I found myself having to do exactly this as there was no alternative. What do you know?....it works. The ostrich strutted its stuff around my prone body for a while and then moved off. Each time I raised my body he attacked again and each time I lay flat he wandered off. So it was a case quickly getting up and running a short distance before falling flat and playing dead once again. In this way I managed to escape the enclosure. Let's face it you can't outrun them.
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Poor Animal Welfare
in Zoos & How Wild Welfare is Supporting Improvements By Wild Welfare
Did you know that
the exact number of zoos and zoological type exhibits and collections around
the world is actually unknown, but estimates have been made anywhere between
10,000 and 16,000 zoos worldwide? Among the larger professional regional zoo
and aquarium associations, such as the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA)
in the United States and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA),
the care and custodianship of animals is one of the primary uniting factors of
their accredited members, who are constantly striving to achieve higher
standards of welfare. However, a significant number of captive wild animal
facilities actually fall outside the ethical oversight of a zoo association,
neither are they influenced by national or international legislation pertaining
to high standards of animal welfare. Consequently, if follows that there are
Thieves take
endangered animals from Avilon Zoo
Several endangered
animals from a private zoo in Rodriguez, Rizal were stolen by thieves Tuesday
morning.
Taken from the
Avilon Zoo were three mature red-footed tortoises, a yellow-footed tortoise, a
common snapping turtle, three black palm cockatoos, and a brown tufted capuchin
monkey, said the zoo’s Facebook post.
The animals are part
of the zoo’s conservation breeding program. Police have yet to identify
suspects a
LAPD Looking Into
Video Of Man Who Spanked Hippo At LA Zoo
He might have done
it for the ‘Gram, but now a man who crossed a barricade guarding a hippopotamus
enclosure at the Los Angeles Zoo is looking at potential trespassing charges
after he was filmed spanking one of the animals.
The Los Angeles
Times reports the video started making the rounds on social media last week. It
shows a man slowly climbing a metal guardrail, inching his way towards a
4-year-old hippo and its mother, the paper said. He then slaps Rosie, the young
pachyderm, and immediately retreats before
Yangon zoo to be
learning centre on biodiversity
Yangon Zoo aims to
raise the awareness of people about the importance of biodiversity and
environmental conservation and it would cooperate with a non-government
conservation organisation to achieve its goal, the Yangon Zoological Gardens
said in a statement.
The Biodiversity and
Nature Conservation Association (BANCA) and Htoo Zoos & Gardens Business
Unit, which manages the Yangon Zoo, signed a Memorandum of Agreement last week
for the programme.
British flamingos
lay eggs for first time in 15 years after heatwave summer
Flamingos living in
a British wildfowl reserve have lain eggs for the first time in 15 years after
the heatwave mimicked conditions they would normally experience in the wild.
The rare flock of
Andean flamingos at WWT Slimbridge in Gloucester last produced eggs in 2003,
when conditions were similarly stifling.
This year’s
record-breaking temperatures sparked six of the birds to lay nine eggs, but as
they were all infertile, the expectant mums were left without chicks to rear.
So to stop the
flamingos feeling glum about their empty nests, experts at the reserve swapped
them for Chilean
120-year-old Bangkok
zoo to be closed
The 120-year-old
Dusit Zoo in the heart of the Thai capital Bangkok will be closed at the end of
this month with all animals being transferred to provincial zoos.
The public relations
department of Dusit Zoo, located opposite the Royal Plaza and the parliament,
confirmed on Wednesday that the zoo is closing at the end of this month and all
of its animals will be transferred to several provincial zoos.
Dusit Zoo, which has
opened since 1898, is part of Dusit Palace. So are the adjacent Ananda Samakhom
Throne Hall, Suan Amporn Garden, Vimanmek Mansion and the parliament.
A new parliament is
being built on the bank of Chao Phraya River several kilometers away.
His Majesty King
Vajiralongkorn has donated some 120 acres of land in Thanyaburi district of
Pathum Thani province, about 40 km n
Marine mammal
facilities vital for conservation
New scientific
research backs up what any visitor to Bermuda’s Dolphin Quest could tell you:
the dolphin inhabitants enjoy interacting with humans as much as we enjoy
playing with them.
The study, published
this summer in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science, finds that
dolphins in professional human care display behaviours that demonstrate they
keenly anticipate interaction with humans. This finding reveals that the
dolphins in the study perceived interactions with humans as rewarding.
Marine mammal
facilities such as Dolphin Quest, whose Bermuda Ocean Habitat sanctuary is one
of the largest and most natural dolphin habitats in the world, are life-saving
arks of hope for wild sea life that is threatened by many human factors
including marine debris, habitat degradation, overfishing and pollution.
These facilities
educate and inspire visitors to care about and protect marine life while
supporting vital marine mammal conservation efforts. Today’s ocean is becoming
increasingly affected by plastics, pollution and marine debris. In many areas
of the ocean, scientists find more plastics by weight than plankton.
A Plymouth
University study finds that plastic pollution affects at least 700 marine
species, and some estimates conclude that at least 100 million marine animals
are killed each year because of it.
This pollution
threat was brought home by a viral video, viewed more than 32 million times, of
a straw being removed from the nose of a sea turtle. Ecologists suggest we are
at the beginning stages of a sixth mass extinction, with 4,529 mammal, bird and
amphibian species deemed at risk of extinction on the International Union for
Conservation of Nature Red List.
http://www.royalgazette.com/opinion/article/20180809/marine-mammal-facilities-vital-for-conservation
Zoo announces
recipients of 2018 Animal Care & Conservation Awards
Wildlife World Zoo,
Aquarium & Safari Park has announced this year’s recipients of its annual
Animal Care & Conservation Awards. Over the past three decades, the zoo has
contributed tens of thousands of dollars, as well as thousands more as in-kind
support and staff expertise to dozens of local, national and international
organizations working on habitat restoration and wildlife conservation all over
the globe. The financial awards of $1,000 to $10,000 each were created to
recognize worthy efforts in field conservation, public display and education
and basic research designed to preserve our planet and inspire future
generations to care about wildlife and wild places.
The recipients
include:
• The Marine Mammal
Center (Marinemammalcenter.org)
• Zoological
Association of America Wildlife Conservation Fund (ZAA.org)
• The International
Crane Foundation (Savingcranes.org)
• The Cheetah
Conservation Fund (Cheetah.org)……..
Cells of Endangered
Vaquita Added to Frozen Zoo to Help Save Species
In a last-ditch
effort to save the critically endangered vaquita porpoises, the San Diego Zoo
Institute for Conservation Research received tissue biopsies for its Frozen
Zoo.
The biopsies were
collected at the end of 2017 from two female vaquitas during an attempt to
establish a breeding program.
The tissue was
collected by scientists working with the Mexican government and
conservationists during a last-ditch effort to capture the few remaining
vaquitas, which live in in the waters off the northern end of the Gulf of
California.
The samples were
brought to the Institute so that it c
Tasneem Zoo upgrades
facilities after criticism and government inspection
A ZOO in Bahrain has
upgraded its facilities following complaints, government officials who
conducted a second round of inspections found.
Tasneem Zoo, in
Shakura, had come under criticism from animal welfare activists after a baboon
was shown in an online video, chained and pacing restless in a cage.
Animal Wealth
Directorate officials and members of the Bahrain Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals (BSPCA) visited the zoo on July 25 after the video went
viral on social media.
They had given the
zoo owners 10 days to rectify the situation at the facility.
In the follow-up
inspection last Tuesday, officials found that the baboon had been moved to a
new cage at the sprawling Al Areen Wildlife Park and Reserve, in Sakhir.
“We are happy that
the inspectors found the changes acceptable,” Tasneem Zoo manager Zahra Al
Dasma told the GDN.
“The major changes
we made included relocating the baboon to Al Areen Wildlife Park and Reserve
after concerns were raised of him being chained in the small cage,” she said.
“Other changes
include open areas for dogs and cats and bigger food and water facilities for
the animals.
“The overall
cleanliness of the surrounding areas was also met with approval.
“The next phase we
are workin
Vietnam province
scrambles to save endangered monkey
A central Vietnam
province is trying to buy back acacia plantations to save critically endangered
douc langurs.
A group of
grey-shanked doucs in Nui Thanh District, Quang Nam Province, are on the verge
of extinction due to food shortage and habitat loss.
Authorities in the
central province are scrambling to expand the habitat of the critically
endangered douc langurs in an attempt to save the last members of the rare
primates, which are protected by Vietnamese and international laws.
Quang Nam Vice
Chairman Le Tri Thanh said local authorities were buying acres of acacia trees
from local farmers to revive natura
ORANG UTAN EEP BEST
PRACTICE GUIDELINES 2018
Forest elephant DNA
diverse, consistent, and distinct, study says
Forest elephants
differ on the inside as well. Genetic research indicates that the forest
elephant is a species distinct from the savanna elephant, having separated some
2–7 million years ago. In fact, analyses have found that African forest and
savanna elephants differ from each other as much as modern Asian elephants do
from ancient mammoths. Nevertheless, the International Union for the
Conservation of Nature (IUCN) does not yet recognize the distinction.
Scientists see the
distinction as important to bring species-specific conservation recognition and
action to bear for African forest elephants. Industrial-scale poaching for
ivory has caused forest elephant populations to decline much faster than those
of savanna elephant populations. Lumping the two groups together underestimates
the vulnerability of the forest elephant.
“More than
two-thirds of the remaining forest elephants in Africa have been killed over
the last 15 years or so,” said study co-author Albert Roca, professor of animal
sciences at the University of Illinois’s Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic
Biology and College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
(ACES). “Some conservation agencies
don’t recognize African forest elephants as a distinct species, and these
animals’ conservation needs have been neglected.”
THOMAS COOK'S
MISTAKE
Hyenas: A Different
Perspective
In my opinion the
above proverb epitomizes a predator we often overlook – the Spotted Hyena. For
decades spotted hyenas have been seen as the dirty, the dark, smelly and
cunning scavengers of the African bush and have been the subjects of many
superstitions and myths. In African folklore it is believed that hyenas
represent witches in disguise; in books and films they are often perceived as
the villains of the story. As much as I enjoyed my childhood days of watching
The Lion King over and over again – it didn’t do them any justice at portraying
their true character.
Animal welfare key
to Dusit Zoo move
At the end of this
month, Bangkokians will bid farewell to Dusit Zoo, as the final curtain falls
for the site, treasured by many not just as a recreational edutainment place,
but also as a vast green space...
Brush with death
inspired this carpenter to become a CROC STAR
Shaun, 39, started
off keep crocs in his garden before deciding to jack in his job as a carpenter.
He now works with
the reptiles time – drawing comparisons with Hogan’s eccentric poacher
character the 1986 hit film and its sequels.
Among his collection
of cold-blooded creatures are a 30-stone, 12ft tomistoma, several endangered
species and about 30 Nile crocs, which get snappy at feeding time.
And dealing with
these toothy terrors has meant even experienced handler Shaun has had the odd
accident.
He says: “When you
work with a dangerous animal every single day, the always going to be things
that happen.
“We have 132
crocodiles on sit small accidents do happen, but they very rare – no-one has
lost an arm any fingers!
“I probably had the
closest sh when I was training a 7ft crocodile wasn’t really concentrating.
That w big error on my behalf and she
Alex, the National
Zoo’s 100-year-old Aldabra tortoise, is euthanized
One of the National
Zoo’s oldest and largest animals died Tuesday after caretakers found fluid
inside his shell and around his heart.
Zookeepers
euthanized Alex, a 100-year-old Aldabra tortoise who arrived at the
Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington in the mid-1950s. Aldabra tortoises,
among the world’s largest tortoises, have a life expectancy of 100 to 150
years.
Alex was considered
an “ambassador” for his species, experts said. He was known as a social and
personable tortoise who enthusiastically did training sessions. His favorite
pastime was “relaxing in a cool and often muddy section of the outdoor yard,”
the zoo said.
Zookeepers said Alex
was a visitor fa
How Killer Whales
Went from Hated, to Adored, to Endangered
It was not so long
ago that killer whales were reviled as vicious pests, shot, harpooned, and even
machine-gunned by whalers, fishermen, and government agencies. Today, the world
has come to appreciate these sleek creatures not only as apex predators but
also for their complex societies and their ability to feel grief. But as Jason
Colby explains in his new book, Orca, our love affair with killer whales may
have come too late, as declining fish stocks, marine pollution, and other
forces push some of them ever closer to extinction.
When National
Geographic caught up with Colby in Hawaii, he explained how orcas display
complex social behavior and even grief, why a controversial new pipeline in
Canada threatens their survival, and how writing this book was also a
redemptive personal journey.
Ostrich Attacks Zoo
Worker in Penza
An ostrich attacked
a Penza Zoo employee who violated safety rules and entered a cage during mating
season.
The ostrich knocked
the man off his feet, kicking him several times, but after a few seconds it
lost interest.
According to a
representative of the zoo, the ostrich mating season lasts from June to
October; thus the male who attacked the zoo employee perceived the latter as a
rival. The representative added that the employee did not apply for medical
help, since he did not receive serious injuries, only a sing
In 2012-17, 54
lions, 11 tigers, 17 leopards found infected
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A report prepared by
scientists at Indian Veterinary Researc ..
Multiple people
injured from hail at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Colorado Springs
Police and the Fire Department rushed to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo to help people
with serious injuries at the facility from a major hail storm around 3 p.m. The
fire department says five people were taken to the hospital by ambulance while 11
others were treated on scene and released.
The zoo is currently
closed and will remain closed for a damage assessment Tuesday. Unfortunately, a 4-year-old muscovy duck
named Daisy and a 13-year-old cape vulture Motswari were killed by the
hailstones.
People at the zoo
were told to stay in place as emergency personnel made arrangements for
evacuations to Cheyenne Mountain High School for reunification efforts for
families and large groups.
A total of seven
busloa
Ancient virus
defends koalas against new viral attacks
The human genome is
riddled with endogenous retroviruses—little pieces of degraded and generally
harmless retrovirus DNA passed down through the generations, along with our own
genetic information. Because most endogenous retroviruses have been part of our
DNA for millions of years, scientists can't explain how they went from their
virulent, disease-causing forms to the inert bits of "junk DNA" most
of them are today. A new study published today in the journal PNAS looks to
koalas for an answer.
"In humans, the
youngest known endogenous retrovirus groups are around 5 million years old.
That makes it very hard to tell what happened. But the koala is one of the few
species known to have an ongoing invasion of the germline by a retrovirus,"
says Alfred Roca, one of the authors of the study and an associate professor in
the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Illinois.
Like other viruses,
retroviruses first attack from the outside. They enter the body, fuse with
cells to release their contents, and insert pieces of their DNA into the
genetic code of the host, hijacking the host's DNA-replicating machinery to
make more copies of themselves.
But if they find
their way into sperm and egg cells, retroviral genes can be passed on to the
host's offspring, becoming a permanent part of the reproductive
Tracking langurs in
Sơn Trà nature reserve
Viet Nam News
Having
graduated with a degree in biology and environmental studies from the Đà Nẵng Teachers’ Training
College, Bùi Văn Tuấn has explored
remote forests across central Việt Nam to conduct his scientific research on
primate species and their diets, as well as the rich forest biodiversity of
the region.
The
4,439ha Sơn Trà Nature Reserve in Đà Nẵng has been his
favourite site since he began studying Vietnamese biodiversity and the
endangered red-shanked douc langurs (Pygathrix nemaeus) population living in
the reserve.
Tuấn, 33, and a research team from the Biodiversity Conservation Centre
of GreenViet, an NGO in Đà Nẵng, are conducting a 10-year study of every corner of the reserve to
research the endangered langu
Dogs to be
vaccinated to protect wild pandas from diseases
Panda experts are
planning to vaccinate dogs around wildlife reserves in China to prevent giant
pandas from contracting rabies or distemper.
The method has been
proven to be effective, according to Diao Kunpeng, a panda expert at the
Beijing-based NGO Shan Shui Conservation Center, which conducted a pilot
program around the Shaanxi Foping National Nature Reserve and other reserves in
the country since 2015.
The fatal canine
distemper virus (CDV) killed five giant pandas between December 2014 and March
2015 in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
The center, with the
help of China Agricultural University, has vaccinated 300 to 400 domestic dogs
around several wildlife reserves in China since 2015, Diao said.
There has been no
reported case of CDV infection of pandas since then.
Research conducted
by the center shows that 72 percent of unvaccinated domestic dogs living in and
around a reserve in Shaanxi carried CDV.
Scientists also
noticed that dogs and wild pandas roa
The Value of Having
Cetaceans in Human Care at Accredited Aquariums and Zoos
I’ve spent my entire
37-year career in the field of conservation. I can count many accomplishments,
but few make me prouder than those opportunities when I’ve been able to support
the protection of places, great and small, but especially the areas that stand
apart as ecosystems unto themselves — like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
and the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. These are amazing places,
increasingly rare in a world where human populations are continuing to expand
in numbers and affluence. They are increasingly hard to protect, as illustrated
in our government’s current headlong rush to allow oil developers into the
Arctic Refuge’s coastal plain; its biological heart.
If we are going to
protect these great places, providing homes for the creatures, great and small,
that depend upon them, we must nurture a public that sees the protection of
these places as relevant and essential. This is challenging in a world where people
are rapidly evolving into ur
Journey to transport
Mundi from Puerto Rico to south Georgia will be 'incredibly complex'
The journey of
bringing a 35-year-old elephant living at a Puerto Rican zoo to a new South
Georgia sanctuary continues to unfold.
Mundi is currently
at Dr. Juan A. Rivero zoo in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. The center has attracted
global headlines in the past year for its inability to care for animals amid
the territory's economic turmoil.
Last year, an
organization called Elephant Aid International announced it was working with
the Puerto Rican government to "retire" the elephant to a sanctuary
in Attapulgus, Georgia, less than 30 miles from Tallahassee.
Carol Buckley,
founder of the nonprofit, said the sanctuary is nearing the end of
construction, which would allow it to b
Striped hyena
escapes enclosure at Vandalur Zoo, triggers panic in Chennai
Tension prevails at
Arignar Anna Zoological Park, popularly known as Vandalur Zoo, as a young male
striped hyena aged about three, jumped out of its enclosure post working hours
on Monday evening.
Despite the best
efforts of the zoo authorities, the animal was still free-ranging till Monday
midnight within the sprawling campus of the zoo. The officials are working on
baiting it back into its enclosure at least by Tuesday morning.
“The zoo is anyway
closed on Tuesdays. We’re hoping that the animal will come back to it’s
enclosure by morning,” an official said adding that trap cameras have been set.
Generally, stripped
hyenas are primarily scavenger and pose to threat to humans unlike spotted
hyenas. “This Hyena is generally very shy and harmless. We’re not alarm
Loro Parque
Foundation opens the window for the reception of new projects for 2019
Loro Parque
Foundation has announced their deadline for the reception of new projects for
2019. They will accept new proposals
until Wednesday, August 15. The
Foundation will distribute US$ 1,000,000 among all the selected projects, which
will be evaluated by a committee of independent experts.
This international
non-profit institution, whose main sponsor is Loro Parque, supports projects
that focus primarily on parrots and marine animals, with the particular aim of
improving the conservation status of endangered species. In addition, through its activity, it also
promotes the conservation of their habitats and of biodiversity in general.
Thanks to the fact
that the Parque, considered the best zoo in the world according to TripAdvisor
contributors, covers all the expenses of the Foundation, 100 per cent of all
donations are used for envi
Animal-loving
anarchists set fire to French zoo
Anarchists have
claimed responsibility for setting off a fire at a zoo in central France.
Anarchists calling
zoos 'prisons' have said they were behind a blaze that destroyed several ticket
booths at the Peaugres Safari park in the Ardèche region on August 1, France
Bleu reported.
No animals or people
were harmed by the flames.
The fire began late
in the night on August 1st and burned through into the early hours, until
firefighters arrived to put it out.
The zoo had to close
for 1 day on August 2.
140-year-old Jaipur
Zoo to be transformed into a bird aviary
Located in the mid
of the city, 140-year-old Jaipur Zoo will soon be transformed into a bird
aviary. A proposal regarding this has been sent to the Central Zoo Authority of
India (CZAI) in New Delhi. The decision will be taken soon. After the proposal
is approved, the place will become a home to different species of birds and the
other animals will be shifted to Nahargarh Biological Park. Special enclosures
for the bird will be set up.
The zoo
administration has sent a new design for the zoo to the CZAI in which 25- 30
enclosures will be created for keeping the different species of birds. Several
birds will be brought from across the globe through exchange programs. Apart fr
Is Taronga Zoo
responsible for Sydney's prolific ibis population?
In the early 1970s,
Taronga Zoo launched an experimental breeding program encouraging the
Australian white ibis to roost in the grounds on Sydney Harbour.
At the time it was
seen as an exciting opportunity, but could the zoo be held responsible for the
rise of the much-maligned bin chicken?
In 1973, just 19
ibis from Healesville in Victoria were held at the zoo and were encouraged to
breed as free-ranging birds.
A report on the
Taronga program unearthed by the ABC RetroFocus project describes the ibis as
being "among the most graceful and decorative of Australian birds".
Today, Sydney's ibis
population is estimated to be aroun
Capturing elephants
from the wild drastically shortens their lives, study finds
Around the world
elephants are kept as tourist attractions, for religious purposes and even as
part of the workforce, but a new study shows taking these majestic animals from
the wild cuts their lives short.
Humans have captured
elephants for thousands of years, and today a third of the remaining 15,000
Asian elephants are held in captivity.
Across forested
parts of Southeast Asia, for example, humans use the considerable strength of
their local elephants to haul timber around for the logging industry.
RARE STOWAWAY
PRIMATE ARRIVES IN DUTCH HARBOUR
The cargo ship
Rolldock Sun, which arrived in the Dutch harbor of Vlissingen on Friday August
3rd, was carrying a very special load: one specimen of galago, a small primate
mainly native to Tanzania, also known as “bushbaby”. The galago most likely
climbed on board without being noticed while the ship stopped in Tanzania two
months ago. Since being discovered and until his transport to AAP, he had been
cared for by the crew.
Billionaire
philanthropist donates $1M to Sioux Falls zoo
Billionaire
philanthropist T. Denny Sanford has donated $1 million to the Great Plains Zoo
in Sioux Falls.
It's the largest
donation in the zoo's history. Sanford says, "I'm a zoo guy."
The money will go
toward a lion exhibit. The zoo is trying to raise $5 million for the project,
and has reached the $2 million mark.
The lion habitat
will feature a pride of up to 10 lions and cubs, including a habitat and yard
area, a holding and viewing building, and a training demonstration area. The
project also will expand seating at a cafe to accommodate the zo
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The Goeldi Monkey Exhibit at the Tropikariet in Helsingborg, Sweden, is
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horticulture experience the result is a lushly planted naturalistic
exhibit that replicates a tropical rainforest scenery.
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Poor Animal Welfare
in Zoos & How Wild Welfare is Supporting Improvements By Wild Welfare
Did you know that
the exact number of zoos and zoological type exhibits and collections around
the world is actually unknown, but estimates have been made anywhere between
10,000 and 16,000 zoos worldwide? Among the larger professional regional zoo
and aquarium associations, such as the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA)
in the United States and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA),
the care and custodianship of animals is one of the primary uniting factors of
their accredited members, who are constantly striving to achieve higher
standards of welfare. However, a significant number of captive wild animal
facilities actually fall outside the ethical oversight of a zoo association,
neither are they influenced by national or international legislation pertaining
to high standards of animal welfare. Consequently, if follows that there are
Thieves take
endangered animals from Avilon Zoo
Several endangered
animals from a private zoo in Rodriguez, Rizal were stolen by thieves Tuesday
morning.
Taken from the
Avilon Zoo were three mature red-footed tortoises, a yellow-footed tortoise, a
common snapping turtle, three black palm cockatoos, and a brown tufted capuchin
monkey, said the zoo’s Facebook post.
The animals are part
of the zoo’s conservation breeding program. Police have yet to identify
suspects a
LAPD Looking Into
Video Of Man Who Spanked Hippo At LA Zoo
He might have done
it for the ‘Gram, but now a man who crossed a barricade guarding a hippopotamus
enclosure at the Los Angeles Zoo is looking at potential trespassing charges
after he was filmed spanking one of the animals.
The Los Angeles
Times reports the video started making the rounds on social media last week. It
shows a man slowly climbing a metal guardrail, inching his way towards a
4-year-old hippo and its mother, the paper said. He then slaps Rosie, the young
pachyderm, and immediately retreats before
Yangon zoo to be
learning centre on biodiversity
Yangon Zoo aims to
raise the awareness of people about the importance of biodiversity and
environmental conservation and it would cooperate with a non-government
conservation organisation to achieve its goal, the Yangon Zoological Gardens
said in a statement.
The Biodiversity and
Nature Conservation Association (BANCA) and Htoo Zoos & Gardens Business
Unit, which manages the Yangon Zoo, signed a Memorandum of Agreement last week
for the programme.
British flamingos
lay eggs for first time in 15 years after heatwave summer
Flamingos living in
a British wildfowl reserve have lain eggs for the first time in 15 years after
the heatwave mimicked conditions they would normally experience in the wild.
The rare flock of
Andean flamingos at WWT Slimbridge in Gloucester last produced eggs in 2003,
when conditions were similarly stifling.
This year’s
record-breaking temperatures sparked six of the birds to lay nine eggs, but as
they were all infertile, the expectant mums were left without chicks to rear.
So to stop the
flamingos feeling glum about their empty nests, experts at the reserve swapped
them for Chilean
120-year-old Bangkok
zoo to be closed
The 120-year-old
Dusit Zoo in the heart of the Thai capital Bangkok will be closed at the end of
this month with all animals being transferred to provincial zoos.
The public relations
department of Dusit Zoo, located opposite the Royal Plaza and the parliament,
confirmed on Wednesday that the zoo is closing at the end of this month and all
of its animals will be transferred to several provincial zoos.
Dusit Zoo, which has
opened since 1898, is part of Dusit Palace. So are the adjacent Ananda Samakhom
Throne Hall, Suan Amporn Garden, Vimanmek Mansion and the parliament.
A new parliament is
being built on the bank of Chao Phraya River several kilometers away.
His Majesty King
Vajiralongkorn has donated some 120 acres of land in Thanyaburi district of
Pathum Thani province, about 40 km n
Marine mammal
facilities vital for conservation
New scientific
research backs up what any visitor to Bermuda’s Dolphin Quest could tell you:
the dolphin inhabitants enjoy interacting with humans as much as we enjoy
playing with them.
The study, published
this summer in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science, finds that
dolphins in professional human care display behaviours that demonstrate they
keenly anticipate interaction with humans. This finding reveals that the
dolphins in the study perceived interactions with humans as rewarding.
Marine mammal
facilities such as Dolphin Quest, whose Bermuda Ocean Habitat sanctuary is one
of the largest and most natural dolphin habitats in the world, are life-saving
arks of hope for wild sea life that is threatened by many human factors
including marine debris, habitat degradation, overfishing and pollution.
These facilities
educate and inspire visitors to care about and protect marine life while
supporting vital marine mammal conservation efforts. Today’s ocean is becoming
increasingly affected by plastics, pollution and marine debris. In many areas
of the ocean, scientists find more plastics by weight than plankton.
A Plymouth
University study finds that plastic pollution affects at least 700 marine
species, and some estimates conclude that at least 100 million marine animals
are killed each year because of it.
This pollution
threat was brought home by a viral video, viewed more than 32 million times, of
a straw being removed from the nose of a sea turtle. Ecologists suggest we are
at the beginning stages of a sixth mass extinction, with 4,529 mammal, bird and
amphibian species deemed at risk of extinction on the International Union for
Conservation of Nature Red List.
http://www.royalgazette.com/opinion/article/20180809/marine-mammal-facilities-vital-for-conservation
Zoo announces
recipients of 2018 Animal Care & Conservation Awards
Wildlife World Zoo,
Aquarium & Safari Park has announced this year’s recipients of its annual
Animal Care & Conservation Awards. Over the past three decades, the zoo has
contributed tens of thousands of dollars, as well as thousands more as in-kind
support and staff expertise to dozens of local, national and international
organizations working on habitat restoration and wildlife conservation all over
the globe. The financial awards of $1,000 to $10,000 each were created to
recognize worthy efforts in field conservation, public display and education
and basic research designed to preserve our planet and inspire future
generations to care about wildlife and wild places.
The recipients
include:
• The Marine Mammal
Center (Marinemammalcenter.org)
• Zoological
Association of America Wildlife Conservation Fund (ZAA.org)
• The International
Crane Foundation (Savingcranes.org)
• The Cheetah
Conservation Fund (Cheetah.org)……..
Cells of Endangered
Vaquita Added to Frozen Zoo to Help Save Species
In a last-ditch
effort to save the critically endangered vaquita porpoises, the San Diego Zoo
Institute for Conservation Research received tissue biopsies for its Frozen
Zoo.
The biopsies were
collected at the end of 2017 from two female vaquitas during an attempt to
establish a breeding program.
The tissue was
collected by scientists working with the Mexican government and
conservationists during a last-ditch effort to capture the few remaining
vaquitas, which live in in the waters off the northern end of the Gulf of
California.
The samples were
brought to the Institute so that it c
Tasneem Zoo upgrades
facilities after criticism and government inspection
A ZOO in Bahrain has
upgraded its facilities following complaints, government officials who
conducted a second round of inspections found.
Tasneem Zoo, in
Shakura, had come under criticism from animal welfare activists after a baboon
was shown in an online video, chained and pacing restless in a cage.
Animal Wealth
Directorate officials and members of the Bahrain Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals (BSPCA) visited the zoo on July 25 after the video went
viral on social media.
They had given the
zoo owners 10 days to rectify the situation at the facility.
In the follow-up
inspection last Tuesday, officials found that the baboon had been moved to a
new cage at the sprawling Al Areen Wildlife Park and Reserve, in Sakhir.
“We are happy that
the inspectors found the changes acceptable,” Tasneem Zoo manager Zahra Al
Dasma told the GDN.
“The major changes
we made included relocating the baboon to Al Areen Wildlife Park and Reserve
after concerns were raised of him being chained in the small cage,” she said.
“Other changes
include open areas for dogs and cats and bigger food and water facilities for
the animals.
“The overall
cleanliness of the surrounding areas was also met with approval.
“The next phase we
are workin
Vietnam province
scrambles to save endangered monkey
A central Vietnam
province is trying to buy back acacia plantations to save critically endangered
douc langurs.
A group of
grey-shanked doucs in Nui Thanh District, Quang Nam Province, are on the verge
of extinction due to food shortage and habitat loss.
Authorities in the
central province are scrambling to expand the habitat of the critically
endangered douc langurs in an attempt to save the last members of the rare
primates, which are protected by Vietnamese and international laws.
Quang Nam Vice
Chairman Le Tri Thanh said local authorities were buying acres of acacia trees
from local farmers to revive natura
ORANG UTAN EEP BEST
PRACTICE GUIDELINES 2018
Forest elephant DNA
diverse, consistent, and distinct, study says
Forest elephants
differ on the inside as well. Genetic research indicates that the forest
elephant is a species distinct from the savanna elephant, having separated some
2–7 million years ago. In fact, analyses have found that African forest and
savanna elephants differ from each other as much as modern Asian elephants do
from ancient mammoths. Nevertheless, the International Union for the
Conservation of Nature (IUCN) does not yet recognize the distinction.
Scientists see the
distinction as important to bring species-specific conservation recognition and
action to bear for African forest elephants. Industrial-scale poaching for
ivory has caused forest elephant populations to decline much faster than those
of savanna elephant populations. Lumping the two groups together underestimates
the vulnerability of the forest elephant.
“More than
two-thirds of the remaining forest elephants in Africa have been killed over
the last 15 years or so,” said study co-author Albert Roca, professor of animal
sciences at the University of Illinois’s Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic
Biology and College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
(ACES). “Some conservation agencies
don’t recognize African forest elephants as a distinct species, and these
animals’ conservation needs have been neglected.”
THOMAS COOK'S
MISTAKE
Hyenas: A Different
Perspective
In my opinion the
above proverb epitomizes a predator we often overlook – the Spotted Hyena. For
decades spotted hyenas have been seen as the dirty, the dark, smelly and
cunning scavengers of the African bush and have been the subjects of many
superstitions and myths. In African folklore it is believed that hyenas
represent witches in disguise; in books and films they are often perceived as
the villains of the story. As much as I enjoyed my childhood days of watching
The Lion King over and over again – it didn’t do them any justice at portraying
their true character.
Animal welfare key
to Dusit Zoo move
At the end of this
month, Bangkokians will bid farewell to Dusit Zoo, as the final curtain falls
for the site, treasured by many not just as a recreational edutainment place,
but also as a vast green space...
Brush with death
inspired this carpenter to become a CROC STAR
Shaun, 39, started
off keep crocs in his garden before deciding to jack in his job as a carpenter.
He now works with
the reptiles time – drawing comparisons with Hogan’s eccentric poacher
character the 1986 hit film and its sequels.
Among his collection
of cold-blooded creatures are a 30-stone, 12ft tomistoma, several endangered
species and about 30 Nile crocs, which get snappy at feeding time.
And dealing with
these toothy terrors has meant even experienced handler Shaun has had the odd
accident.
He says: “When you
work with a dangerous animal every single day, the always going to be things
that happen.
“We have 132
crocodiles on sit small accidents do happen, but they very rare – no-one has
lost an arm any fingers!
“I probably had the
closest sh when I was training a 7ft crocodile wasn’t really concentrating.
That w big error on my behalf and she
Alex, the National
Zoo’s 100-year-old Aldabra tortoise, is euthanized
One of the National
Zoo’s oldest and largest animals died Tuesday after caretakers found fluid
inside his shell and around his heart.
Zookeepers
euthanized Alex, a 100-year-old Aldabra tortoise who arrived at the
Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington in the mid-1950s. Aldabra tortoises,
among the world’s largest tortoises, have a life expectancy of 100 to 150
years.
Alex was considered
an “ambassador” for his species, experts said. He was known as a social and
personable tortoise who enthusiastically did training sessions. His favorite
pastime was “relaxing in a cool and often muddy section of the outdoor yard,”
the zoo said.
Zookeepers said Alex
was a visitor fa
How Killer Whales
Went from Hated, to Adored, to Endangered
It was not so long
ago that killer whales were reviled as vicious pests, shot, harpooned, and even
machine-gunned by whalers, fishermen, and government agencies. Today, the world
has come to appreciate these sleek creatures not only as apex predators but
also for their complex societies and their ability to feel grief. But as Jason
Colby explains in his new book, Orca, our love affair with killer whales may
have come too late, as declining fish stocks, marine pollution, and other
forces push some of them ever closer to extinction.
When National
Geographic caught up with Colby in Hawaii, he explained how orcas display
complex social behavior and even grief, why a controversial new pipeline in
Canada threatens their survival, and how writing this book was also a
redemptive personal journey.
Ostrich Attacks Zoo
Worker in Penza
An ostrich attacked
a Penza Zoo employee who violated safety rules and entered a cage during mating
season.
The ostrich knocked
the man off his feet, kicking him several times, but after a few seconds it
lost interest.
According to a
representative of the zoo, the ostrich mating season lasts from June to
October; thus the male who attacked the zoo employee perceived the latter as a
rival. The representative added that the employee did not apply for medical
help, since he did not receive serious injuries, only a sing
In 2012-17, 54
lions, 11 tigers, 17 leopards found infected
..
A report prepared by
scientists at Indian Veterinary Researc ..
Multiple people
injured from hail at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Colorado Springs
Police and the Fire Department rushed to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo to help people
with serious injuries at the facility from a major hail storm around 3 p.m. The
fire department says five people were taken to the hospital by ambulance while 11
others were treated on scene and released.
The zoo is currently
closed and will remain closed for a damage assessment Tuesday. Unfortunately, a 4-year-old muscovy duck
named Daisy and a 13-year-old cape vulture Motswari were killed by the
hailstones.
People at the zoo
were told to stay in place as emergency personnel made arrangements for
evacuations to Cheyenne Mountain High School for reunification efforts for
families and large groups.
A total of seven
busloa
Ancient virus
defends koalas against new viral attacks
The human genome is
riddled with endogenous retroviruses—little pieces of degraded and generally
harmless retrovirus DNA passed down through the generations, along with our own
genetic information. Because most endogenous retroviruses have been part of our
DNA for millions of years, scientists can't explain how they went from their
virulent, disease-causing forms to the inert bits of "junk DNA" most
of them are today. A new study published today in the journal PNAS looks to
koalas for an answer.
"In humans, the
youngest known endogenous retrovirus groups are around 5 million years old.
That makes it very hard to tell what happened. But the koala is one of the few
species known to have an ongoing invasion of the germline by a retrovirus,"
says Alfred Roca, one of the authors of the study and an associate professor in
the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Illinois.
Like other viruses,
retroviruses first attack from the outside. They enter the body, fuse with
cells to release their contents, and insert pieces of their DNA into the
genetic code of the host, hijacking the host's DNA-replicating machinery to
make more copies of themselves.
But if they find
their way into sperm and egg cells, retroviral genes can be passed on to the
host's offspring, becoming a permanent part of the reproductive
Tracking langurs in
Sơn Trà nature reserve
Viet Nam News
Having
graduated with a degree in biology and environmental studies from the Đà Nẵng Teachers’ Training
College, Bùi Văn Tuấn has explored
remote forests across central Việt Nam to conduct his scientific research on
primate species and their diets, as well as the rich forest biodiversity of
the region.
The
4,439ha Sơn Trà Nature Reserve in Đà Nẵng has been his
favourite site since he began studying Vietnamese biodiversity and the
endangered red-shanked douc langurs (Pygathrix nemaeus) population living in
the reserve.
Tuấn, 33, and a research team from the Biodiversity Conservation Centre
of GreenViet, an NGO in Đà Nẵng, are conducting a 10-year study of every corner of the reserve to
research the endangered langu
Dogs to be
vaccinated to protect wild pandas from diseases
Panda experts are
planning to vaccinate dogs around wildlife reserves in China to prevent giant
pandas from contracting rabies or distemper.
The method has been
proven to be effective, according to Diao Kunpeng, a panda expert at the
Beijing-based NGO Shan Shui Conservation Center, which conducted a pilot
program around the Shaanxi Foping National Nature Reserve and other reserves in
the country since 2015.
The fatal canine
distemper virus (CDV) killed five giant pandas between December 2014 and March
2015 in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
The center, with the
help of China Agricultural University, has vaccinated 300 to 400 domestic dogs
around several wildlife reserves in China since 2015, Diao said.
There has been no
reported case of CDV infection of pandas since then.
Research conducted
by the center shows that 72 percent of unvaccinated domestic dogs living in and
around a reserve in Shaanxi carried CDV.
Scientists also
noticed that dogs and wild pandas roa
The Value of Having
Cetaceans in Human Care at Accredited Aquariums and Zoos
I’ve spent my entire
37-year career in the field of conservation. I can count many accomplishments,
but few make me prouder than those opportunities when I’ve been able to support
the protection of places, great and small, but especially the areas that stand
apart as ecosystems unto themselves — like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
and the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. These are amazing places,
increasingly rare in a world where human populations are continuing to expand
in numbers and affluence. They are increasingly hard to protect, as illustrated
in our government’s current headlong rush to allow oil developers into the
Arctic Refuge’s coastal plain; its biological heart.
If we are going to
protect these great places, providing homes for the creatures, great and small,
that depend upon them, we must nurture a public that sees the protection of
these places as relevant and essential. This is challenging in a world where people
are rapidly evolving into ur
Journey to transport
Mundi from Puerto Rico to south Georgia will be 'incredibly complex'
The journey of
bringing a 35-year-old elephant living at a Puerto Rican zoo to a new South
Georgia sanctuary continues to unfold.
Mundi is currently
at Dr. Juan A. Rivero zoo in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. The center has attracted
global headlines in the past year for its inability to care for animals amid
the territory's economic turmoil.
Last year, an
organization called Elephant Aid International announced it was working with
the Puerto Rican government to "retire" the elephant to a sanctuary
in Attapulgus, Georgia, less than 30 miles from Tallahassee.
Carol Buckley,
founder of the nonprofit, said the sanctuary is nearing the end of
construction, which would allow it to b
Striped hyena
escapes enclosure at Vandalur Zoo, triggers panic in Chennai
Tension prevails at
Arignar Anna Zoological Park, popularly known as Vandalur Zoo, as a young male
striped hyena aged about three, jumped out of its enclosure post working hours
on Monday evening.
Despite the best
efforts of the zoo authorities, the animal was still free-ranging till Monday
midnight within the sprawling campus of the zoo. The officials are working on
baiting it back into its enclosure at least by Tuesday morning.
“The zoo is anyway
closed on Tuesdays. We’re hoping that the animal will come back to it’s
enclosure by morning,” an official said adding that trap cameras have been set.
Generally, stripped
hyenas are primarily scavenger and pose to threat to humans unlike spotted
hyenas. “This Hyena is generally very shy and harmless. We’re not alarm
Loro Parque
Foundation opens the window for the reception of new projects for 2019
Loro Parque
Foundation has announced their deadline for the reception of new projects for
2019. They will accept new proposals
until Wednesday, August 15. The
Foundation will distribute US$ 1,000,000 among all the selected projects, which
will be evaluated by a committee of independent experts.
This international
non-profit institution, whose main sponsor is Loro Parque, supports projects
that focus primarily on parrots and marine animals, with the particular aim of
improving the conservation status of endangered species. In addition, through its activity, it also
promotes the conservation of their habitats and of biodiversity in general.
Thanks to the fact
that the Parque, considered the best zoo in the world according to TripAdvisor
contributors, covers all the expenses of the Foundation, 100 per cent of all
donations are used for envi
Animal-loving
anarchists set fire to French zoo
Anarchists have
claimed responsibility for setting off a fire at a zoo in central France.
Anarchists calling
zoos 'prisons' have said they were behind a blaze that destroyed several ticket
booths at the Peaugres Safari park in the Ardèche region on August 1, France
Bleu reported.
No animals or people
were harmed by the flames.
The fire began late
in the night on August 1st and burned through into the early hours, until
firefighters arrived to put it out.
The zoo had to close
for 1 day on August 2.
140-year-old Jaipur
Zoo to be transformed into a bird aviary
Located in the mid
of the city, 140-year-old Jaipur Zoo will soon be transformed into a bird
aviary. A proposal regarding this has been sent to the Central Zoo Authority of
India (CZAI) in New Delhi. The decision will be taken soon. After the proposal
is approved, the place will become a home to different species of birds and the
other animals will be shifted to Nahargarh Biological Park. Special enclosures
for the bird will be set up.
The zoo
administration has sent a new design for the zoo to the CZAI in which 25- 30
enclosures will be created for keeping the different species of birds. Several
birds will be brought from across the globe through exchange programs. Apart fr
Is Taronga Zoo
responsible for Sydney's prolific ibis population?
In the early 1970s,
Taronga Zoo launched an experimental breeding program encouraging the
Australian white ibis to roost in the grounds on Sydney Harbour.
At the time it was
seen as an exciting opportunity, but could the zoo be held responsible for the
rise of the much-maligned bin chicken?
In 1973, just 19
ibis from Healesville in Victoria were held at the zoo and were encouraged to
breed as free-ranging birds.
A report on the
Taronga program unearthed by the ABC RetroFocus project describes the ibis as
being "among the most graceful and decorative of Australian birds".
Today, Sydney's ibis
population is estimated to be aroun
Capturing elephants
from the wild drastically shortens their lives, study finds
Around the world
elephants are kept as tourist attractions, for religious purposes and even as
part of the workforce, but a new study shows taking these majestic animals from
the wild cuts their lives short.
Humans have captured
elephants for thousands of years, and today a third of the remaining 15,000
Asian elephants are held in captivity.
Across forested
parts of Southeast Asia, for example, humans use the considerable strength of
their local elephants to haul timber around for the logging industry.
RARE STOWAWAY
PRIMATE ARRIVES IN DUTCH HARBOUR
The cargo ship
Rolldock Sun, which arrived in the Dutch harbor of Vlissingen on Friday August
3rd, was carrying a very special load: one specimen of galago, a small primate
mainly native to Tanzania, also known as “bushbaby”. The galago most likely
climbed on board without being noticed while the ship stopped in Tanzania two
months ago. Since being discovered and until his transport to AAP, he had been
cared for by the crew.
Billionaire
philanthropist donates $1M to Sioux Falls zoo
Billionaire
philanthropist T. Denny Sanford has donated $1 million to the Great Plains Zoo
in Sioux Falls.
It's the largest
donation in the zoo's history. Sanford says, "I'm a zoo guy."
The money will go
toward a lion exhibit. The zoo is trying to raise $5 million for the project,
and has reached the $2 million mark.
The lion habitat
will feature a pride of up to 10 lions and cubs, including a habitat and yard
area, a holding and viewing building, and a training demonstration area. The
project also will expand seating at a cafe to accommodate the zo
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The Goeldi Monkey Exhibit at the Tropikariet in Helsingborg, Sweden, is
an indoor exhibit that was completed in-house. Thanks to the staff's
horticulture experience the result is a lushly planted naturalistic
exhibit that replicates a tropical rainforest scenery.
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This conference will be hosted next month by Seattle Aquarium and
Woodland Park Zoo. Barbara Brem will attend for ZooLex. She would love
to speak with you about presenting your animal exhibits on ZooLex. You
can meet her at the poster session or anytime during the conference.
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translation of the previously published presentation of the Mink-Ferret
Rotation Exhibit at Fasanerie Wiesbaden in Germany.
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After more than 50 years working in private, commercial and National zoos in the capacity of keeper, head keeper and curator Peter Dickinson started to travel. He sold house and all his possessions and hit the road. He has traveled extensively in Turkey, Southern India and much of South East Asia before settling in Thailand. In his travels he has visited well over 200 zoos and many more before 'hitting the road' (many more before that) and writes about these in his blog http://zoonewsdigest.blogspot.com/
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Peter earns his living as an independent international zoo consultant, critic and writer. Currently working as Curator of Penguins in Ski Dubai. United Arab Emirates. He describes himself as an itinerant zoo keeper, one time zoo inspector, a dreamer, a traveler, an introvert, a people watcher, a lover, a storyteller, a thinker, a cosmopolitan, a writer, a hedonist, an explorer, a pantheist, a gastronome, sometime fool, a good friend to some and a pain in the butt to others.
"These are the best days of my life"
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Independent International Zoo Consultant
If you have anything to add then please email me at elvinhow@gmail.com
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After more than 50 years working in private, commercial and National zoos in the capacity of keeper, head keeper and curator Peter Dickinson started to travel. He sold house and all his possessions and hit the road. He has traveled extensively in Turkey, Southern India and much of South East Asia before settling in Thailand. In his travels he has visited well over 200 zoos and many more before 'hitting the road' (many more before that) and writes about these in his blog http://zoonewsdigest.blogspot.com/
or on Hubpages http://hubpages.com/profile/Peter+Dickinson
Peter earns his living as an independent international zoo consultant, critic and writer. Currently working as Curator of Penguins in Ski Dubai. United Arab Emirates. He describes himself as an itinerant zoo keeper, one time zoo inspector, a dreamer, a traveler, an introvert, a people watcher, a lover, a storyteller, a thinker, a cosmopolitan, a writer, a hedonist, an explorer, a pantheist, a gastronome, sometime fool, a good friend to some and a pain in the butt to others.
"These are the best days of my life"
Peter Dickinson
Independent International Zoo Consultant
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