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  1. African Grey

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    African Grey, 15 Mar 2018
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    In the meeting minutes, the IBEX MALIGNANT CATARRHAL FEVER (MCF) SUMMARY REPORT is especially interesting.
     
    geomorph, 18 Mar 2018
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    Has anyone seen the okapi baby on exhibit? Whenever I go, it's not out.
     
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    The Santa Barbara Zoo getting a koala from the LA Zoo is interesting news.
     
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    Arizona Docent, 19 Apr 2018
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    As always the Peninsular pronghorn fawns are top of the bill!
    BTW: San Diego has just this year become another breeding / holder.
     
    Kifaru Bwana, 19 Apr 2018
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    Was out this weekend!
     
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    I am really utterly dismayed at the lacklustre and ridiculously low sentence donned out by the US Justice Department. Give me a brake ... an 18 months prison sentence (of which 6 months at home) and an USD5000 fine for illegally importing 93 birds (out of which only 8 birds survived the smuggling into the country). These birds are worth in the tens of thousands per bird on the black market .... If you would want to combat the illegal animal trade this is no deterrent at all and nor does it take on the middlemen and the traders overseas ...!!!

    Hopefully, the LA Zoo can find mates for the few surviving S.E. songbirds they now hold. Allthough, ... that will probably be not so easy ... (as they guy smuggling in the birds' in the first place).
     
    Kifaru Bwana, 1 May 2018
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    I was there last week. There was one on exhibit in the walk-through aviary.
     
    DavidBrown, 1 May 2018
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    7 Penisular pronghorns born :

    https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10160271110115273


    One insurance population currently thriving at the L.A. Zoo is a breeding group of Peninsular pronghorn, a species of antelope native to Baja California Sur, Mexico. The Zoo recently welcomed seven Peninsular pronghorn fawns, born between March 4 and April 8. In 2002, the L.A. Zoo joined the Peninsular Pronghorn Recovery Project in the Vizcaino Desert Biosphere Reserve of Baja California Sur, Mexico because the species’ numbers were dwindling in the wild due to hunting, habitat destruction, and cattle ranching. Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens | LOS ANGELES ZOO WELCOMES AN ABUNDANCE OF SPRING BABIES!
     
    vogelcommando, 1 May 2018
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    Son of a...

    When we went in January the leafbird, parrot, and blue magpies were on-exhibit but we saw no sign of the green-magpies or Black-Collared Starling.

    ~Thylo
     
    ThylacineAlive, 1 May 2018
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    “After 11 years the elephant lawsuit has finally been dismissed”

    Is this the Billy situation or something else?
     
    Echobeast, 10 May 2018
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    Maybe that and other lawsuits. Nevertheless still good news.
     
    TheEthiopianWolf03, 10 May 2018
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    What was the elephant lawsuit?

    ~Thylo
     
    ThylacineAlive, 10 May 2018
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    It is a long story, Thylo. There are a few good articles out there about it. The Los Angeles Zoo always seems to constantly have trouble somewhere. It is a shame, honestly.
     
    EsserWarrior, 10 May 2018
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    I am so glad ..., finally a legal end to a non-starter anti elephant lobby.

    Please do note that I write anti animal lobby ..., as if and when had those petitioners' really had their heads clogged on the right way they would worry 200% over the status of wild elephants in range countries where they continue to be persecuted and displaced from their wild habitats by a burgeoning human population ... and alas that seems to be not abatting to date and then take appropriate action and support in situ conservation initiatives as well as ex situ conservation breeding and PR / awareness education in zoos and other conservation breeding facilities.

    I would welcome that the elephant bull Billy might now get some appropriate female breeding age company though. That would be mega cool!
     
    Kifaru Bwana, 11 May 2018
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