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Hi all, Considering the need for scientific investigations in nature conservation and concerned by the lack of funding researchers and NGOs are experiencing, I decided to create a research organisation that will be based on volunteer tourism. It will aim at studying, conserving and preserving...

Stone-Throwing Chimp Is Back -- And This Time It's Personal - ScienceNOW

It's not a zoo designation, but I decided to declare 2012 as the Year of the Chimpanzee in the United States. If we are ever going to get U.S. captive chimpanzees out of laboratories, basements, and filming studios ‒ and give them sanctuary, with the respect and care they deserve ‒ the year...

I'm a Product Design Student working on a University Project to design a series of products that present live updates about adopted animals to the user. Research on this topic will allow me to add value to this scenario, transform peoples' expectancies of animal adoption, and engage them more...

Hi everyone, I'm a graduate student at the University of Kansas studying the ways bats move on the ground. I need to find zoos with different species of bats that I can observe. If anyone has any information on zoos with species other than the usual Common Vampire, Indian Fruit Bat, etc. I would...

What is DNA? How is it connected to red tide? And why is it important to know? “DNA, Red Tide and the Sea,” an interactive new exhibit at Mystic Aquarium, a division of Sea Research Foundation, Inc., answers all these questions while giving guests a look at our oceans on a whole new...

In august 2006, a world sensation was born in Copenhagen Zoo. Three young babirusa/pig hybrids. These may have changed genetic research as we know it, since sientist did not believe that two such different species could breed. One of the piglets is babirusa coloured, one is a mix of pale and...

In august 2006, a world sensation was born in Copenhagen Zoo. Three young babirusa/pig hybrids. These may have changed genetic research as we know it, since sientist did not believe that two such different species could breed. This is a photo of three piglets. As you can see, one is babirusa...

In august 2006, a world sensation was born in Copenhagen Zoo. Three young babirusa/pig hybrids. These may have changed genetic research as we know it, since sientist did not believe that two such different species could breed. This is a photo of the domestic pig mother and the piglets. As you...

The lone babirusa male in the old Elephant House in Copenhagen Zoo. This male was made famous in 2006, when he fathered the famous three pig/babirusa hybrid piglets. If any of you haven't heard about them, I can tell you that it's a world sensation. According to science and genetic research at...