BBC Radio 4 are making a programme on the debate around euthanasia of healthy zoo animals, with a focus on the practice in the UK.
They are doing background research at this stage, and are looking to speak with people who would be interested in contributing (anonymously or otherwise) to the...
A healthy young giraffe called Marius is due to be killed tomorrow Sunday 9th Feb by bolt gun as he is surplus to requirements at Copenhagen Zoo. Google the name Marius the giraffe to read in more detail. Please sign the petition below to try and persuade the Zoo to spare him. Yorkshire Wildlife...
I'm doing an essay and I need to find out the approximate prices of building the zebra, giraffe and lion enclosures. I haven't found any luck so far, so if you could help me I would be grateful. Please provide links if possible :)
When we last visited the zoo ( April 2008 ), the crocodile area of the reptile house was sealed off, as a new exhibit for the Morelet's Crocodiles was being built. Does anybody know if this exhibit is now open? What will the zoo do with the Mexico House that the crocs were in before ?
The Little Rock Zoo is a small 33 acre zoo that is in need of serious help. It severely lacks funding and is the only zoo in the state of Arkansas. The zoo is trying to become a very professional zoo that places it's animals in exhibits that are made to look like their native environment like...
A new female Rothshild giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi) joined Chester's group today.
She's four-and-a-half-year-old Dagmar, from a safari park in Denmark. I could guess which one, but I'm sure Zoogiraffe can tell us for certain.
Although not out on the paddock, she seemed to...
Auckland Zoo's only female giraffe Rukiya is pregnant!
It has been kept quiet until recently when an update was sent out to FOTZ members.
She is due within the next couple of months I think.
Father would be of course the zoo's only other giraffe Zabulu.
Both of Rukiya's previous...
Como Zoo in Minneapolis has the cutest new baby giraffe..check out this video of the little guy and the story!
KSTP TV - Minneapolis and St. Paul - Baby giraffe born early at Como Zoo
Hello thought members may be interested in this
One specially equiped removal van and 4 frisky giraffes take part in one of the most unusal house moves ever. It's all designed to make sure that the alpha male is "man about the giraffe house" living with two females. The Keepers hope that he's...