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A 1.8 ton rhinoceroses attacked 2 married zookeepers in Austria, killing a woman and injuring her husband
Zoo officials said it was not immediately clear why the 30-year-old female rhino named Jeti had las…
Erin Snodgrass
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I'm the 'mother' to 60 baby kangaroos. Here's what my day is like running a kangaroo sanctuary in the Australian outback.
When Chris Barns started rescuing orphaned baby kangaroos in 2005, he would nurse them back to heal…
Alex Outhwaite
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Chimpanzees are on the loose in a Swedish zoo after escaping their enclosure. Zookeepers have already shot 4 of them.
If a chimpanzee is on the loose in the park, staffers "unfortunately have to shoot to kill," the zo…
Natalie Musumeci
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An orangutan at a Virginia zoo finally learned how to nurse her new baby after a breastfeeding zookeeper showed her how it was done
Zoe the orangutan, who was orphaned young and may not have learned to nurse, successfully breastfed…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Zookeepers were stumped when a female gibbon got pregnant while alone in her cage. 2 years later they say there was a tiny hole that she and a neighboring male used to copulate through.
Momo, a white-handed gibbon, got mysteriously pregnant at the Kujukushima Zoo in Japan in 2021. Zoo…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Twin pandas celebrated their 1st birthday at the Berlin Zoo with a festive cake made from their favorite fruits and vegetables
Over the course of their first year, Berlin Zoo's panda duo Pit and Paule "transformed from tiny wr…
Zoë Ettinger
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A head zookeeper who worked for 'Tiger King' star Joe Exotic was found dead, reports say
Erik Cowie was pronounced dead after he was found face down and unconscious in an apartment in Broo…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Elephant kills a zookeeper with a single blow from her powerful trunk
The African elephant struck zookeeper Joaquin Gutierrez Arnaiz throwing him onto the iron bars of h…
Naina Bhardwaj
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A zookeeper was killed by a 675-pound Siberian tiger after it scaled a 12-foot high electric fence that was switched off
The tiger named Jasper attacked David Solomon at Seaview Predator Park in Port Elizabeth, then kill…
Sophia Ankel
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After a lemur was stolen from the San Francisco Zoo, a 5-year-old boy helped zookeepers track it down
James Trinh spotted Maki the lemur outside his preschool in Daly City. He and his family now have l…
Susie Neilson
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Mike Tyson once offered a zookeeper $10,000 to open a cage so he could 'smash' a silverback gorilla in the face
"I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let [me] smash that silverback's snot box," M…
Alan Dawson
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Why zoo officials couldn't sedate Harambe, the gorilla who was killed after a 4-year-old entered his enclosure
The death of Harambe has caused outrage among animal rights activists. Many have raised the ques…
Ali Sundermier
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It takes a Jurassic World to unite Zookeepers around the globe
However, this article is not about the opening or the commercial success of the movie. While money …
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Zookeepers are hilariously recreating a scene from 'Jurassic World'
It all started when Australian Tumblr user Feminerds posted a photo on their feed of…
Ian Phillips
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A Zookeeper Was Seriously Injured By A Rhino Near London
ITV wrote that the middle-aged man suffered "a number of injuries in his chest, abdomen and pelvis …
Stefano Pozzebon
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A crypto trading platform that recruited users through prayer circles was a pyramid scheme that made $1 billion for its 'Reverand CEO,' lawsuit says
NovaTechFx, once one of the fastest-growing financial platforms, now faces a lawsuit that says it s…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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I'm a millennial and one of my best friends is a boomer. It's helped me gain perspective about aging.
Having a friend from a different generation has helped me gain perspective about things. We go to t…
Kelly Burch
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Here's how Singapore Airlines airlifted a giant panda cub and sent it on its journey home to China
Singapore's first giant panda cub, Le Le, took a 4.5-hour-long flight to China via Singapore Airlin…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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A bear whose habitat at a Ukraine zoo was struck by Russian shelling miraculously survived and will soon be rehomed to the UK
Nearly 200 other animals at Yampil's home zoo in Ukraine died from Russian shelling last year.
Katie Hawkinson
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A shark pup that can 'walk' and was asexually conceived was just born at a Chicago-area zoo
The zoo, located just outside of Chicago, welcomed the pup on August 23 — but her mother had …