Dateline: February 9, 2024. Rossifari Zoo News is back with a round up of the latest news in the world of zoos, aquariums, conservation, and animal weirdness!
We start with our births section, featuring the first ever pangolin born in human care in Europe, a giraffe at the Living Desert, a new sloth at Palm Beach Zoo, and a Goodfellows tree kangaroo joey at The Perth Zoo!
We then go to our deaths, where we say goodbye to a 71 year old elephant, a flamingo in Berlin that was at least 75 years old (!!!), Panja, a famous snow leopard at Hertfordshire Zoo, and Walnut, the famous white-naped crane at the Smithsonian Zoo's Front Royal campus.
We then move on to our other Zoo News stories, including the annual USA Today Best Zoo contest voting and my thoughts on it, predictions galore as Groundhog Day and Super Bowl week are upon us and zoos are taking part, an incredible surgery out of the Big Cat Sanctuary in the UK, a flight attendant on Alaska Airlines helping save flamingo eggs, a great naming story about an okapi, and so much more!
In Conservation News, we talk about bad news for gray wolves, the 27th Annual Backyard Bird Count, and the first ever baby white shark sighting!
In Other News, we talk about a fun way to take down an ex this Valentine's Day while helping cats and dogs, and of course we talk about Chernobyl's Mutant Wolves!
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