Just some thoughts of how zoos should react to splitting or lumping species or subspecies. Recent proposals to split subspecies into species...
Indian king cobra expert Gowri Shankar has discovered that king cobras are four distinct species, not one species as previously thought. He...
Reptile houses are amongst the most common types of zoo exhibits, with the majority of major U.S. zoos (and I'd presume zoos abroad as well)...
It should come as no surprise to anyone that many common zoo animals have multiple common names. It seems, however, that these multi-name species...
A recent trip has got me thinking, which zoo or aquarium houses and displays the most classes of animals? Most places have at least five or six,...
Does anybody know anything about Goldman's Jaguar. The only info I have found is that Cameron Park zoo has them and that they live in Central and...
I had not heard of the concept of taxonomic vandalism until I read this story. Apparently there are some unscrupulous taxonomists who steal the...
Scientists have discovered that there are three snow leopard subspecies:https://phys.org/news/2017-05-sub-species-leopard.html
So I'm thinking about how despite the fact that I usually don't care about big cats, apes and Old World monkeys or hoofstock, I have a number of...
I've tended not to pay much attention to subspecies of mammals, however I've noticed people here and elsewhere distinguish two main subspecies of...
I don’t recall seeing this posted previously but apologies if it has been and I’ve overlooked it; see link below. Linnaeus's Asian elephant...
With my new-found access to this wide cross-section of people knowledgeable about animals, I want to get your opinions on a topic that I have...
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