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Chimpanzee uses innovative foresighted methods to fool humans

Chimpanzee Santino achieved international fame in 2009 for his habit of gathering stones and manufacturing concrete projectiles to throw at zoo visitors. A new study shows that Santino's innovativeness when he plans his stone-throwing ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Orangutans at Miami zoo use iPads to communicate

(AP) -- The 8-year-old twins love their iPad. They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary. Their family's teenagers also like the hand-held computer tablets, too, but the clan's elders show no interest.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Leeches are DNA bloodhounds in the jungle

Copenhagen Zoo and University of Copenhagen have in collaboration developed a new and revolutionary, yet simple and cheap, method for tracking mammals in the rainforests of Southeast Asia. They collect leeches from tropical ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Going ape for apps: young orangutan plays with iPad

The young orangutan reaches his hand through the cage and rubs his knuckles over an iPad, drawing wide colors across the screen with his favorite app.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 19

Many meat-eating mammals lack sweet tooth, study finds

For all their sharp teeth, many meat-eating mammals lack a sweet tooth, a genetic analysis of a dozen species has shown.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Diet may be affecting rhino reproduction

Southern white rhinoceros populations, once thriving in zoos, have been showing severely reduced reproductivity among the captive-born population. San Diego Zoo Global researchers have a possible lead into why the southern ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Australian zoo probes mystery rhino deaths

An Australian outback zoo was Wednesday investigating the sudden and mystifying deaths of four white rhinos who showed "neurologic abnormalities" like stumbling.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Baboon-like social structure creates efficiencies for spotted hyena

As large, carnivorous mammals, spotted hyenas are well known for their competitive nature; however, recent work suggests that their clan structure has similarities to some primate social systems such as those of the baboon ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Niger rare giraffe population makes a comeback

The last West African giraffes, now living in the wild only in southwestern Niger, are making a comeback with numbers standing at 310 last year, the environment ministry said here Wednesday.

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Japan zoo tries to drum up alligators' interest in sex

A Japanese zoo has turned to rhythmical banging on traditional drums in a bid to encourage some enthusiasm for sex among lust-lacking alligators.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Japan zoo hunts for escaped penguin

The hunt was on Monday for a penguin that scaled a sheer rock face to escape from a Tokyo zoo, and was last seen swimming in a river in the Japanese capital.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Tartan fit for a panda in Scotland

Two pandas gifted to Edinburgh zoo by China received the ultimate Scottish honour on Tuesday when a special tartan designed for them was unveiled.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Foxconn apologises over boss's 'animal' comment: report

Taiwan technology giant Foxconn has apologised over comments by chief Terry Gou allegedly comparing workers to animals, according to a report.

Technology / Business

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

California condor still threatened by human activities

A recently released scientific paper authored by San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research scientists shows the leading causes of death of the endangered California condor in the wild are human influenced, with lead ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Identifying sloth species at a genetic level

Identifying species, separating out closely related species and managing each type on its own, is an important part of any animal management system. Some species, like the two types of two-toed sloth, are so close in appearance ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Zoo

A zoological garden, zoological park, menagerie, or zoo is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures, displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred.

The term zoological garden refers to zoology, the study of animals, a term deriving from the Greek zωο (Zōo – "animal") and λóγος (lógos – "study"). The abbreviation "zoo" was first used of the London Zoological Gardens, which opened for scientific study in 1828 and to the public in 1847.

The number of major animal collections open to the public around the world now exceeds 1,000, around 80 percent of them in cities.

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