If someone were to ever make a list of "America's 50, or 100, or whatever, Most Scenic Zoos," there's no doubt that Cheyenne Mountain would be...
From what I've gathered speaking to the keepers, the understanding was that Minnesota would be a permanent facility for Hawaiian monk seals,...
Anteater and capybara has led to deaths before, as have white rhino and ostrich, and both of those are fairly common mixes. Sometimes, you just...
Worth noting that there is a much different take on the feeding of live fish in the UK (see the below statement from DEFRA). Almost all of the...
The Komodo/very small passerine mix has been tried before (example, Virginia Aquarium mixing their dragon with Javan sparrow). The extent to...
If you want to see giraffes in an exhibit with several very large trees, I'd recommend looking up White Oak - I wouldn't call their yard heavily...
Even more so than in zoos, I feel like in aquariums the centerpiece, star attractions are often pretty similar - it's often that big, main tank...
Nope. They're that bad ass, apparently. It was cited by Sunquist and Sunquist in their "Wild Cats of the World"
Black-footed cat and aardvark I could at least possibly see, based on fennec and aardvark having worked together. The other two are pretty solid...
I used to work in a pretty shoddy little zoo. Whenever I'd ask the owner about getting something a little more interesting, the reply was always...
"I guess even if you want to be in a Willard Price book in real life most people here are zoo enthusiasts and few are going to be able to give...
Another factor is that a lot of visitors don't find many of the most venomous species to be super-impressive as exhibit animals. A black mamba is...
Exactly. CITES is easier if you're doing captive-bred, even if it's still from the wild. What we're going to probably see in the future is the...
First of, let me say off the bat, I get it. There's a lot of romanticism in those old days of going out, seeking adventure, and never knowing...
I've worked at some facilities that were all about the venomous and they took up most of the collection ("Elapids are like heroin," one supervisor...
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