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California Condor by Nathan Rupert
Via Flickr:
couldn’t figure out which picture I liked the best so decided to upload all of them
It’s a boy! Guests were treated to a giraffic birth this weekend.
This is Harriet’s 5th calf, and the first offspring for sire, Fred. Given the recent news about the US considering listing giraffes as Endangered, each birth is a boost of hope for the species. Stick your neck out and join our virtual giraffe research team. YOU can make a difference from your mobile device or computer: http://bit.ly/WildwatchKenya
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People can’t stop talkin about this baby takin. Her name is Fēngbào, which means ‘storm'—she arrived 1 hour before a thunderstorm. ⚡️
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The Chinese name for the red panda is “hun-ho,” meaning “fire fox.” But even rainy days can’t extinguish Clark’s cute looks.
: Christopher Chain
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Good evening and welcome to the unbearable “waiting for the weekend” game featuring Alba the 4-year-old Andean bear. Reblog to play and comment below with your favorite weekend countdown activity. Some of Alba’s include: bearly mastering her swing, striking a paws, noming on bromeliads (and sometimes bearies), and not hibearnating.
: Mary-Ellen Jordan
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Valentines don’t have to be in pairs. This triple threat of tiny furiends will make you swoon.
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Pawsome duo Dorothy & Maryanne are about 9 months old now but will always be cubbies in our hearts. Revisit their birth and learn what we’re doing to save Amur leopards.
: Penny Hyde
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2 gorillas at the San Diego Zoo have COVID-19, becoming the first known apes to test positive in the U.S.
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Nola was born in the southern savanna woodlands of Sudan. In the mid-1970s she was captured to protect her from poachers, and in 1989 she moved to the San Diego Zoo. She shared her enclosure with buffalo, giraffes and gazelles, and enjoyed daily belly scratches.
In 1990, a male rhinoceros named Angalifu joined Nola in San Diego, but she wasn’t interested in him. After hormone treatments, she mated with another male named Saut, but never became pregnant.
Saut died in 2004. Angalifu died last year. Nola was getting older, and suffering from a bacterial infection. Yesterday the zoo announced:
In the last 24 hours, Nola’s condition worsened and we made the difficult decision to euthanize her. We’re absolutely devastated by this loss, but resolved to fight even harder to #EndExtinction.
With the death of Nola this weekend, the northern white rhinoceros inches closer to true extinction. But it became extinct in the wild 2008, and the remaining rhinos have all been to old to breed for several of years. Still, there are plans to resurrect the subspecies using a preserved egg and sperm. The San Diego Zoo’s Institute has pledged $2 million to this difficult project.
And there is reason to be hopeful. A cousin subspecies, the southern white rhino, has seen its population blossom from 20 to 20,000 in the last century thanks to the intervention of humans.
Want to learn more? Check out this article by my friend (and housemate) Sarah Kaplan.
Image credits: Jeff Keaton,Make it Kenya,Ernst Schäfer,Colin P. Groves et al, TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images
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Went to San Diego Zoo this week.
aisha and sela from san diego zoo, an orangutan and siamang who share an enclosure and are best friends!
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