Did you ever wonder what would happen if wild animals broke into zoos? Could they stay, or must they be returned to the wild? Let’s find out. It really depends on what kind of animal breaks into the zoo. When a wild raccoon broke into a zoo in Germany, the zookeepers had to keep him. […]
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In 1946 a sea lion escaped Roger Williams Park Zoo in Rhode Island. To this day, it is believed she lived a long and free life. Rhonda, a sea lion, once escaped from an urban zoo in Providence, Rhode Island, and was never found. She crossed a few park lakes, walked nearly two miles on
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Do you remember the story about the woman who went on a 4-day getaway to Montana with her husband and their border collie, Katie? Well, here’s some good news for you. Carole King quit her job to head the search for her precious border collie, who escaped their hotel room during a thunderstorm. After 57
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While cats and dogs have been rivals on several occasions, only a handful of tests and studies are done with cats to learning about them truly. But how smart are our feline friends? Cats are actually intelligent. They are quite independent, and they can understand a whole lot of things. They even have excellent short-term
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There are dozens of animals we can train to help in human activities, we have police dogs, work horses, and messenger pigeons. But did you know rats are extremely easy to train too? An African giant pouch rat, has been awarded a gold medal for his work in detecting land mines. Rats can be trained
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Scientifically speaking, the DNA of humans and chimpanzees are almost identical, 98.7% to be exact. They are knowing to be our closest living relatives. If we were to raise a chimpanzee like how we raised a human child, will they be as intelligent as we are? In 1931, a psychologist adopted a Chimpanzee and raised
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There are so many reasons why extinction occurs. This could be caused by natural disasters, evolutionary changes, or even overexploitation. But there are instances when certain species seemingly come back. The Aldabra rail, a flightless bird, was wiped out along with all the terrestrial animals that once lived on Aldabra. A massive flood sank a
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Good kitty: These 6 ‘hero cats’ saved the humans they loved It’s not unusual these days for family pets to attain Internet fame — but this week, Tara the “hero cat” is reigning as queen over them all. A one-minute surveillance video captured the normally mellow family cat saving her human family member, a 4-year-old
Icelandic horse The Icelandic horse is a breed of horse developed in Iceland. Although the horses are small, at times pony-sized, most registries for the Icelandic refer to it as a horse. Icelandic horses are long-lived and hardy. In their native country they have few diseases; Icelandic law prevents horses from being imported into the
How China’s booming panda business works Pandas are a big business — both for China and the zoos lucky enough to score a visitor. They can also be extremely expensive. At last count in 2004, there were about 1,600 pandas alive in the wild, according to the World Wildlife Fund. Around 350 pandas live under
