Saturday, June 20, 1998

Zoo News Digest 20th June 1998 (Zoo News 02)

Many thanks for the encouraging response to the first edition of zoo news.
Thanks too for those of you who pointed me in the direction of this last
weeks news sites.


1/Little Rock Zoo operating without license
http://www.ardemgaz.com/today/bhzoo20.html

2/European Union agrees to improve zoo conditions
http://www.infoseek.com/Content?arn=a2198LBY613reulb-
19980616&qt=zoo&col=NX&kt=A&ak=news1486

3/Belfast Gorilla leaves for Munich
http://www.yahoo.co.uk/headlines/980619/belfast/898264194-zoo.html

4/ Six Manchurian Tiger Cubs go on display in Beijing Zoo.
http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9806/14/china.baby.tigers/index.html

5/ Riverbanks Zoo tout their newest exhibit as "Beauty and the Beast."
http://www.thestate.com/daily/local/zoo20.htm

6/Snout route through Dallas Zoo.
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro-dfw-nf/dfw9.htm

7/A brief history of the World Famous Topeka Zoo (quite interesting)
http://cjonline.com/stories/061898/com_topekazoo.shtml

8/Student raises cash for new bear accomodation at Folsom Zoo
http://www.sacbee.com/news/beetoday/newsroom/local/061898/local02.html

9/Thai Zoo denies mistreating share tipping chimp.
http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/etcetera/wires/0618/e_rt_0618
_4.sml

10/Giraffes talk in regional accents
http://www.newsquest.co.uk/quicksilver/STORIES/news10.html

11/Off course penguin ends up as World Cup mascot
http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/etcetera/061898/penguin.sml

12/PETA try to stop Burnet Park Zoo Wienermobile
http://www.syracuse.com/news/content/local/0618CWEEN.html

13/Roddy family give $500,000 to Knoxville Zoo
http://www.knoxnews.com:80/061998/up_front/5796.htm

14/Tulsa Zoo Diet
http://www.tulsaworld.com/scripts/tulsaworld/tulsaworld.dll?VBEXE=C:\inets
rv
\tulsaw orld\tulsaworld.exe&DSPLY=Story&ID=980615_Ne_a7blubb

15/10 gorilla births documented in the Congo
http://www.enn.com/news/enn-stories/1998/06/061798/gorilla.asp

16/Chinas elderly panda dies
http://www.azstarnet.com/public/dnews/080-3629.html

17/ Sedgwick County Zoo's Touch Zoo
http://www.wichitaeagle.com/news/local/community/sedgwickco/zoovan0616_txt
.htm

18/ St. Louis Zoo Hippohula luau' will benefit zoo
http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/news/pdtoday.nsf/News/33C503A7852EF621862566
250021D80 E?OpenDocument

19/Homeless iguanas roam Los Angeles
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9806/16/us.iguanas.reut/index.html

20/Trapped Minnesota wolverine likely escaped
http://webserv1.startribune.com/cgi-bin/stOnLine/article?thisStory=4564675
4

21/Lincoln Park Zoo visitors get free shuttle
http://www.suntimes.com:80/output/news/trol15.htm

22/Investigators say Cincinnati Zoo exhibit fire was an accident
http://www.ohio.com:80/bj/news/ohio/docs/023347.htm

23/Anger leads zoo to stop cruel shows
http://www.scmp.com/news/template/templates.idc?artid=19980616014641065&to
p=china&tem plate=Default.htx&maxfieldsize=1383

24/Save the rhino, Sahabat Alam Malaysia urges Govt
http://www.jaring.my/~star/saturday/13jkrh.html

25/Deaths of naked mole rats mystery
http://www.kern.com/tbc/newsproc/articles/Apr1998/I--1318967935.html

26/Giraffe at Milwaukee County Zoo gets an ultrasound
http://www.jsonline.com/news/0614giraffe.stm

27Dickerson Park Zoo has world's first successful artificial insemination
of an elephant in captivity http://www.usatoday.com/news/nweird.htm

28/Dr. Gage, Marine World vet
http://www.hotcoco.com/news/eastbay/central/stories/lrg00336.htm

29/Pittsburgh Zoo marks 100th year
http://www.triblive.com/news/rzoo614.html

30/ Genes show quagga return is a possibility
http://www.infoseek.com/Content?arn=a1608LBY141reulb-
19980613&qt=zoo&col=NX&kt=A&ak=news1486

31/Save the Tiger Fund, World Wildlife Fund and American College of
Traditional Chinese Medicine Forge Partnership
http://www.infoseek.com/Content?arn=BW1002-
19980612&qt=zoo&col=NX&kt=A&ak=news1486



Happy Keepering!
Peter