What may be a first for Twitter, the National Zoo offered tweet-by-tweet updates as Mei Xiang the giant panda underwent her eighth artificial insemination procedure.
— The Associated Press, reporting on GOP candidate Newt Gingrich getting bitten by a penguin during a St. Louis zoo visit; he was in town to speak at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting. Depending on your political affiliation, this tuxedoed attacker may now join the ranks of TIME’s Top 10 Evil Animals.
One zoo’s plan for disinterested gators? Knocking — and we don’t mean boots.
The escaped penguin has spurred a hunt so large that the zoo is now appealing for the public’s help in tracking down the bird, though they caution against attempting to wrangle it.
Although rebels have taken hold of the Libyan capital, because they continue the important task of searching for fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi, little has been done to alleviate the stresses zookeepers at the Tripoli Zoo are facing in caring for hungry and thirsty animals.
What’s going on at the zoos over in China?
It seems letting “nature take its course” may have proved a dangerous turn for little Happy Feet.
Oddly enough, the baby’s parents seem completely comfortable with it.
Penguin chicks on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean suffer from a feather-loss disorder that presents a vicious threat to the birds’ survival.
The Bronx Zoo has decided to give the cobra a proper name. But like the snake itself, what to call her is eluding zoo officials.
