38-year-old dolphin named Allie has given birth at Brookfield Zoo Chicago, her labor lasting a bit over an hour. The new calf weighs an estimated 35 pounds and is nearly four feet long.
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38-year-old dolphin named Allie has given birth at Brookfield Zoo Chicago, her labor lasting a bit over an hour. The new calf weighs an estimated 35 pounds and is nearly four feet long.
An ostrich farm in British Columbia is under court order to cull the flock – or wobble, in ostrich-speak – as the birds have come in contact with a strain of the deadly avian flu virus, H5N1.
Cheetahs, the fastest land animal on the planet, are up against multiple existential threats: dwindling habitat, poachers, lethal competition with farmers. This week the Cheetah Conservation Fund founder and executive director, Laurie Marker, sat down with PBS to talk about the big cat's fight for survival.
Floridians have been in a land war with invasive Burmese pythons for years, but there’s another interloper in the Sunshine State that is probably as bad as the snakes, the Nile monitor. The six-foot predatory lizards hail from the Nile River in Africa, but they’ve found an agreeable habitat in the canals of Palm Beach County.
Researchers in Florida have been painstakingly collecting the tears of sea turtles for the past couple years. They believe the tears carry a secret that could explain an enduring mystery: how many animals navigate by tapping into the Earth’s electromagnetic field.
No one was happier to hear the news that scientists had “resurrected” a long-extinct wolf species than the US Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum.
Although the company Colossal Biosciences did not actually clone a dire wolf, which went extinct more than 10,000 years ago, Secretary Burgum was quick to leap on the idea that “de-extinction” can make the Endangered Species List obsolete.
A biotech company in Dallas says it has brought back an extinct animal that last walked the Earth nearly 13,000 years ago. Colossal Biosciences, the startup that’s also trying to resurrect the extinct wooly mammoth and the dodo, announced this week that they’ve brought three dire wolves into the world.
A pair of Galapagos tortoises, the two oldest residents at the Philadelphia Zoo, have become first-time parents to at least four healthy hatchlings. The female, named Mommy, and her mate Abrazzo are both estimated to be about 100 years old.
San Francisco’s beloved albino alligator Claude is about to become YouTube famous with his own live webcam. The 30-year-old currently resides at the California Academy of Sciences, a research institute and natural history museum.
Last week conservationists in the Pacific Whale Watch Association spotted an orca calf with its mom and more than a dozen other killer whales in the Salish Sea, the waters between Seattle and Vancouver. The mother, known to the whale watchers as “Sedna,” comes from a historic line of orcas rescued from SeaWorld.
The lowly blobfish, long recognized as the world’s ugliest animal, has resurfaced this week to win a comelier title: Fish of the Year. New Zealand environmental group Mountain to Sea Conservation Trust holds the annual contest to raise awareness for freshwater and marine life.
A pair of young bison bulls in a UK sanctuary have been taught to self medicate, specifically by vaccinating themselves. The staff at Wildwood Trust in Kent say the animals have been trained to lean into needles, which is less stressful than the typical procedure: shooting darts into them.
A gated community in Argentina – built on a wetland along the Luján River, north of Buenos Aires – is home to about 45,000 wealthy residents and at least 1000 capybaras. The humans who live in Nordelta are about to deploy assorted birth control methods on the growing rodent population.
Five young Mexican spider monkeys are about to make their public debut at Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. Rescued at the US-Mexican border in 2023, the babies have been recovering from their ordeal suffered at the hands of smugglers. The zoo will feature their story for educational purposes.
Last summer the UK became the first country in Europe to legalize pet-food meat grown in a lab. This week the company Meatly has put its lab-grown dog treat called Chick Bites on the store shelves for the first time.
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington announced the birth this week of a rare, endangered Malayan tapir calf. The new arrival is only the second tapir born at the zoo in its 120-year history.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service under the Biden Administration concocted a plan to save spotted owls in the West by killing off hundreds of thousands of barred owls that have invaded the smaller species’ habitat. Now four lawmakers from rural Oregon are asking the new administration to stop the cull before it can begin.
The National Zoo in Washington shut down this week when five inches of snow blanketed the capital, but a couple of its residents were delighted by the diversion. Qing Bao and Bao Li, the giant pandas who just arrived here, cavorted like schoolchildren in the white stuff.
The Wild Felid Advocacy Center in Shelton, Washington remains closed after20 of their big cats succumbed to the avian flu last December The sanctuary home to rescued cougars, bobcats, and other wild cats, announced the news on Facebook.
This week the Los Angeles Zoo announced the birth of two baby perentie lizards, the first of the species to be bred there.
