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4 orphaned pumas find home at Memphis Zoo​

 

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Our boy is getting so big!!

 

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‘Wobbly wonder’ baby giraffe born at San Diego Zoo Safari Park on Betty White’s 100th birthday​

The San Diego Zoo welcomed a new giraffe born just in time for what would have been late actress and animal advocate Betty White’s 100th birthday Monday.


“We could not think of a more fitting way to remember (White’s) dedication to conservation than watching this newborn giraffe take their first steps,” the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance posted on Twitter with a photo of the “brand new wobbly wonder.”

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Mei is such a wonderful, patient and loving Mommy!!

 

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This is one of several photos taken by Portuguese photographer Jose Fragozo, whose entries were highly commended in the Living World Portfolio category. The poignant shot was captured in Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Fragozo says: 'After a long walk, a pride of lions rests on a surviving patch of grass after a fire destroyed most of their territory. This photo was taken from a safari vehicle with a camera on an extended monopod'

A second awe-inspiring shot by Fragozo, this time showing a cheetah in the Masai Mara National Reserve. 'Cheetahs sometimes roll on the savannah grass to relieve the itching caused by different types of parasites,' he says, adding: 'This image was taken with a trap camera hidden on a tree and operated from a distance'

This photo was taken by Canadian photographer Anil Sud, whose portfolio was awarded runner-up status in the Living World Portfolio category. Captured in Antarctica, it shows 'a lone penguin' navigating the 'penguin highways to return to the colony'

Close-up shot of a grizzly bear in Ni'iinlii Njik (Fishing Branch) Territorial Park in Yukon, Canada. Swiss photographer Marko Dimitrijevic says: 'On the Arctic Circle there is a place in Northern Yukon where the Fishing Branch River doesn't freeze in the winter. Here, grizzly bears continue to chase salmon way past any other place in Canada. With temperatures reaching -30C, their wet fur instantly freezes when they get out of the river.' Recalling the moment he took the shot, he adds: 'This bear was walking head down when he noticed me. For a second, he looked at me, quickly assessing if I was a threat or a meal. Deciding that I was neither he continued his walk, passing within a few metres of me'

The winning images in the 2021 Travel Photographer of the Year awards

Some 20,000 images were submitted from photographers in 151 countries, with the judges declaring that they present 'a diverse and glorious view of life on our planet'.

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What a great pic! I wonder what are the odds of capturing that perfect wave and smile?

 

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A baby porcupine, called a porcupette, is turning heads at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois.

The Chicago Zoological Society (CZS) welcomed the new bundle of joy on March 19.

The porcupette is currently being hand-reared by staff as the zoo says its mother was not providing proper maternal care.

The porcupette weighed just under a pound at birth, according to zoo officials who also said he was also born with soft and bendable quills, which will harden after a few days.

The porcupette’s mom and dad are members of Brookfield Zoo’s Animal Ambassador Program and can be seen in Hamill Family Play Zoo.

Once the young porcupine is weaned from the bottle, he will also be a part of this program, which offers guests the opportunity to have up-close experiences with many of the animals.

Adorable baby porcupine thriving at Illinois zoo

BROOKFIELD, Ill. (WICS/WRSP) — A baby porcupine, called a porcupette, is turning heads at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois. A porcupette (baby porcupine) was born at Brookfield Zoo on March 19. (credit Jim Schulz/CZS-Brookfield Zoo) The Chicago Zoological Society (CZS) welcomed the new bundle of...

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A Florida zoo welcomed the birth of one of the world’s most endangered primates: a blue-eyed black lemur.

The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens announced the birth on Thursday in a Facebook post. The zoo said the primate, born to parents Hendricks and Hemsworth, is the second blue-eyed black lemur born at the facility.

Zoo visitors won’t be able to catch a glimpse of the newborn lemur just yet, as it will remain in a private area with its parents until it is old enough to join the rest of the group, according to the zoo.

The blue-eyed black lemur is unique for more reasons than just being endangered. They are also the only primates, besides humans, that have blue eyes. Blue eyes offer less sun protection than darker eyes, making them rare in the wild.

The adorable blue-eyed baby shown in the zoo’s Facebook photos will likely only weigh five pounds as an adult, according to the Duke Lemur Center.


The lemurs are native to northwestern Madagascar, where their numbers have dwindled due to hunting and deforestation, says the center. It is estimated that there are fewer than 1,000 individuals living in the wild.


“Every birth of this species is critical to their long-term sustainability,” wrote the zoo on Facebook.

Florida zoo celebrates the birth of a critically endangered lemur

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Giant pandas Mei Xiang, left and her cub Xiao Qi Ji eat a fruitsicle cake in celebration of the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, 50 years of achievement in the care, conservation, breeding and study of giant pandas at The Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, Saturday, April 16, 2022.

The “cake” was made from frozen fruit juice, sweet potatoes, carrots and sugar cane and it lasted about 15 minutes once giant panda mama Mei Xiang and her cub Xiao Qi Ji got hold of it.

The National Zoo's most famous tenants had an enthusiastic breakfast Saturday in front of adoring crowds as the zoo celebrated 50 years of its iconic panda exchange agreement with the Chinese government.

Xiao Qi Ji’s father Tian Tian largely sat out the morning festivities, munching bamboo in a neighboring enclosure with the sounds of his chomping clearly audible during a statement by Chinese ambassador Qin Gang. The ambassador praised the bears as “a symbol of the friendship” between the nations.

Pandas are almost entirely solitary by nature, and in the wild Tian Tian would probably never even meet his child. He received a similar cake for lunch.

In addition to hailing the 1972 agreement sparked by President Richard Nixon's landmark visit to China, Saturday's celebration also highlighted the success of the global giant panda breeding program, which has helped bring the bears back from the brink of extinction.

Xiao Qi Ji's birth in August 2020 was hailed as a near miracle, due to Mei Xiang's advanced age and the fact that zoo staff performed the artificial insemination procedure under tight restrictions shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic shut the entire zoo. At age 22, Mei Xiang was the oldest giant panda to successfully give birth in the United States.

Normally they would have used a combination of frozen sperm and fresh semen extracted from Tian Tian. But in order to minimize the number of close-quarters medical procedures, zoo officials used only frozen semen.

“It was definitely a long-shot pregnancy,” said Bryan Amaral, the zoo's senior curator for mammals.

In honor of that long shot, the now 20-month-old cub was given a name that translates as “little miracle.” His birth in mid-pandemic sparked a fresh wave of panda-mania, with viewership on the zoo's panda-cam livestream spiking by 1,200 percent.

“I know how passionate people are about pandas," Amaral said. “I'm not surprised by that passion at all.”

Sure enough, crowds started streaming straight for the panda section at 8 a.m. when the zoo opened. Sisters Lorelai and Everley Greenwell, age 6 and 5, ran toward the enclosure chanting “Pandas! Pandas!”

They watched the cub tumble around, try to wrestle his mom and tear the zero off the giant 50 emblazoned on the ice cake.

“They knew this was coming,” said their mother Kayleigh Greenwell of Mount Ranier, Maryland, said of her girls. “We've been talking about it all week.”

The zoo's original 1972 panda pair, Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing, were star attractions at the zoo for decades, but panda pregnancies are notoriously tricky and none of their cubs survived.

Mei Xiang and Tian Tian arrived in 2000, and the pair has successfully birthed three other cubs: Tai Shan, Bao Bao and Bei Bei — also by artificial insemination. All were transported to China at age 4, under terms of the zoo’s agreement with the Chinese government.

Pandas devour ice cake to celebrate 50 years at National Zoo

The National Zoo's most famous tenants had an enthusiastic breakfast as the zoo celebrated 50 years of its panda exchange agreement with the Chinese government.

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For the second time in less than three months, New York state’s Seneca Park Zoo has welcomed a baby Masai giraffe.

According to Spectrum News 1, the Rochester attraction said the unnamed calf, born Tuesday, is doing fine and bonding with first-time mom Kipenzi.

On April 29, Masai giraffes Iggy and Parker also welcomed a calf, Olmsted, the zoo said in a news release.

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Hong Kong remembers the life of the world's oldest male giant panda​

The oldest-ever male giant panda in captivity has died at age 35 at a Hong Kong theme park after his health deteriorated.

An An lived most of his life at Ocean Park after he and a female panda were gifted to Hong Kong by China in 1999. The female panda, Jia Jia, died in 2016 at age 38, making her the oldest-ever panda in captivity.

Ocean Park mourned An An as a family member who grew with the park and built bonds with locals and tourists.


"An An has brought us fond memories with numerous heart-warming moments. His cleverness and playfulness will be dearly missed," Paulo Pong, chairman of Ocean Park Corporation, said in a statement.

An An had high blood pressure, a common condition among geriatric pandas. Over the past three weeks, An An had been kept out of sight from visitors at the park as his health worsened. He stopped eating solid food and was significantly less active in recent days.

Last week, hundreds left comments on an Ocean Park post about An An's condition, wishing him a speedy recovery.


He was euthanized to prevent further suffering Thursday morning after veterinarians from Ocean Park and government authorities consulted the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, Ocean Park said.

"An An lived a full life that ended at the respectable age of 35 – the equivalent of 105 years in human age," the statement read.

Hong Kong remembers the life of the world's oldest male giant panda

The oldest-ever male giant panda in captivity has died at age 35 at a Hong Kong theme park after his health deteriorated.

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I could just about hear that calf going, "AAAAHHHH Mama help help help!" when it saw the one keeper standing close to it and having been the only entity close enough to have shaken it awake.

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Potter Park Zoo celebrated the birth of baby binturong, or as they are called bintlets, on July 4.

Potter Park Zoo announced the birth of the baby bintlets on Tuesday. They said their female binturong (Arctictis binturong), named Thistle, gave birth to three babies on Independence Day 2022. According to officials this was the first binturong birth at the zoo in over two decades.

One of the three bintlets unfortunately was found to be sick and passed away a week following the birth.

Binturongs, often referred to as bearcats live in the canopies of tropical rain forests in southeast Asia.

Zoo officials said that bintlets are “born with eyes sealed and remain hidden in the mother’s thick fur for their first few days. At six to eight weeks, they are the size of a domestic cat, have grown a coat of coarse hair, and begin to explore and eat solid food.”

Director of Animal Health Dr. Ronan Eustace was one of the experts who helped with the birthing process.

“Animal care staff has done a great job training the mother binturong Thistle to allow awake ultrasounds. Thistle voluntarily stands in position to let me ultrasound her abdomen and she can choose to walk away at any time,” said Dr. Eustace. “We’ve been able to collect valuable information on fetal parameter development in Binturongs and we hope to share this information to the zoo wide community in a scientific publication in the future.”

The father binturong named Barry was born in 2017 at the Brookfield Zoo and the mother Thistle was born in 2019 at the Roger Williams Zoo. Binturongs are listed as vulnerable in some parts of their habitat in the wild and endangered in others. They are currently at risk due to habitat destruction, poaching for traditional Asian medicines, and the fur and pet trade.

Potter Park Zoo visitors can still see Barry in his habitat, but will have to wait a few months before Thistle and the bintlets are out.

Potter Park Zoo welcomes at-risk newborn bintlets

Potter Park Zoo announced the birth of the baby bintlets on Tuesday.

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Adult binturong

Binturong - Wikipedia

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The Linnaeus sloths at the Hattiesburg Zoo took their grand, old time announcing their latest addition to the family.

But extenuating circumstances had to be dealt with before introducing the fifth member of the Hattiesburg tribe of sloths and its first male offspring.

On July 5, the zoo’s female, two-toed sloth, Mo, gave birth a male baby that was dubbed Lumpawaroo, a name almost immediately shortened to “Lumpy.”

Lumpy became Mo’s third live birth at the Hattiesburg Zoo, with the little lad joining his older sisters, Maple and Mochi, in the family tree.

But the newborn and his mother ran into complications shortly after his birth.

“When little Lumpy was born, the keepers noticed pretty quickly that he wasn’t nursing,” said Kristen Moore, animal curator the Hattiesburg Zoo.

“We waited a few hours to see if he would latch on, but he never did and we discovered that Mo was not producing milk.”

At that point, the Zoo’s animal-care team intervened.

After contacting other zoos and sharing notes and research, it was determined that goat’s milk was the best supplement to use for Lumpy. Sloths are naturally lactose intolerant, and goat’s milk contains the least amount of lactose.

Animal keepers syringe-fed Lumpy every two hours while keeping him with his mother.

“By keeping Lumpy with his mother, the two were able to maintain the mother/baby bond, which is so important,” Moore said.

Once Lumpy maintained and began gaining weight, the animal care team’s attention moved to determine how to help Mo produce milk.

“We were able to give Mo an injection of a medication that quickly increased her milk production,” Moore said. “Soon after, Lumpy began nursing from his mother.”

Both mother and son are in fine enough fettle now that mother and child will make their public debut at the zoo Saturday

Birth of baby sloth celebrated at Hattiesburg Zoo

The Hattiesburg Zoo welcomed a baby boy to its family of sloths

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Black, White and Ready to Paw-Ty​

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The three female Asian small-clawed otter pups are ready to be named, and the aquarium is asking for the public’s input.

The pups were born May 21 during a full moon, king tide, and a storm. Their native habitat is Indonesia, southern China, southern India, Southeast Asia, and the Philippines.

They have narrowed it down to four choices to pick from:

• Stella, Mae, and Selene (moon, Thailand moon goddess and goddess of the moon)
• Padma, Bulan, and Melati (Indonesia’s three national flowers-the Giant Padma, Anggrek Bulan, the moth orchid, and Melati Putih, the Arabian Jasmine.)
• Tala, Reyna, and Ula (bright star, queen, and small one)
• Java, Bali, and Nusa (Volcanic islands in Indonesia)

The deadline to vote is August 26 at noon. Click here to vote.

North Carolina Aquarium needs help naming otter pups

The three female Asian small-clawed otter pups are ready to be named, and the aquarium is asking for the public’s input.

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I’m sure many if you are wondering why the hell I'm liking comments you made back in 2020. Well, I’d never seen the thread about this baby panda until today and I got caught up in the cuteness! Could happen to anybody, really!

Reading through the birth and young life of this panda in direct juxtaposition to the many stories here on DD where human parents do horrible things to their own offspring makes me really wonder about people.

This momma panda had nobody “telling” her how to properly raise her cub; she never once left her cub vulnerable, she fed the little guy, she cuddled him, she took great care of him, and while we don’t know if pandas can experience love the way we do, I’d venture to say that she indeed DOES love the little guy she brought into this world.

Why do so many human mothers neglect their kids, let others abuse their kids, or worse, horribly torture the babies they brought into this world? That’s a question a lot of us here don’t know the answers to. And I think the hatred we feel for “mothers” who treat their kids this way is warranted.

Why can’t every human mother be a “panda mom”?

 

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#PandaStory: Tickles and Treasure Hunting With Xiao Qi Ji

Earlier this week, giant panda cub Xiao Qi Ji went treasure hunting in a tree for some fun puzzle feeder enrichment! Get the latest #PandaStory update from assistant curator Laurie Thompson.

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The male white-cheeked gibbon was born on Aug. 11 to mom, Tualang, and dad, Daxin.

But the zoo said visitors won’t see him for a while because caretakers are trying to re-introduce him to his family.

Apparently, his parents have shown no instinct or interest in raising him.

The zoo said it’s common for first-time primate mothers to need a little time.

"We know maternal care is learned, and it is common for mothers to need time to acclimate to their new role, especially for first time moms like Tualang. So, the primate team was able to step in from day one and care for the baby round the clock to try to give mom time to get her bearings. They are feeding him formula every two hours, weighing him, checking his temperature, and delivering consistent and responsive care for this little one to make sure he is healthy," the Dallas Zoo said on its Facebook page.

The zoo hopes that over time his mom will become more comfortable with him and help to raise him.

If that doesn’t happen, caretakers will hand raise him.

Dallas Zoo staff caring for wide-eyed baby gibbon

There’s a new baby primate at the Dallas Zoo that’s either adorable or terrifying depending on how you look at it.

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