News tagged with bronx zoo
Big cats love Calvin Klein cologne
(PhysOrg.com) -- Workers in Wildlife Conservation Societies around the world are using a new technique to lure big cats to their heat-and-motion-sensitive cameras and keep them there long enough to enable ...
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Swine flu joins list of animal diseases that affect people
The swine flu virus that is smoldering in this country and triggering a full-blown outbreak in Mexico is one of a growing number of animal pathogens to jump the species barrier -- and may be the microbe that jumpstarts the ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Grand Cayman blue iguana: Back from the brink of extinction
While thousands of species are threatened with extinction around the globe, efforts to save the Grand Cayman blue iguana represent a rarity in conservation: a chance for complete recovery, according to health ...
Jul 18, 2011 |
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Smallest turtle in the land becomes more scarce
The Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo veterinarians, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the Massachusetts Natural Heritage and Endangered Species ...
May 10, 2011 |
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Celebrity New York hawk amazes with baby
Message to New York's most-watched -- and feathered -- mom to be: happy Mother's Day!
May 08, 2011 |
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Celebrity New York hawk dashes chick hopes: expert
One of New York's most closely watched celebrities -- a red-tailed hawk nesting on a Manhattan high rise -- has dashed hopes that three eggs she's been tending will hatch.
May 04, 2011 |
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Kihansi spray toads make historic return to Tanzania
In a bold effort to save one of the world's rarest amphibians from extinction, one hundred Kihansi spray toads have been flown home to Tanzania after being painstakingly reared at the Bronx Zoo and The Toledo ...
Aug 17, 2010 |
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Tiny pump means pain relief for big cats
Veterinarians from the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo and the University of Tennessee have found a solution to the challenge of providing effective pain relief to some of their most difficult patients: ...
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Russian and US veterinarians collaborate to solve mysterious wild tiger deaths
A team of Russian veterinary colleagues and health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo are collaborating to understand how distemper -- a virus afflicting domestic dogs and many wildlife ...
Sep 30, 2011 |
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A happy new year for penguins
The Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society announced today that its efforts to protect a wildlife-rich coastal region in South America have paid off in the form of a new coastal marine park recently ...
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Dec 31, 2008 |
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