For the first time, researchers are exploring ways to improve welfare in captive birds of prey through olfactory enrichment- or using scent cues to alleviate boredom and encourage species-appropriate behavior. A new study ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 6, 2017
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Zoo keepers are probing why a male Malayan tiger killed a four-year-old female tiger it had only just met, when they were brought together for breeding purposes in California.
Plants & Animals
Dec 23, 2013
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Will the tiger go the way of the passenger pigeon or be saved from extinction like the American bison?
Ecology
Sep 5, 2012
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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 species -- ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 30, 2011
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