2-year old liger expensive to raise: shelter manager Taipei, July 8 (CNA) A two-year old liger — a crossing of a tiger and lion — being cared for at a protected wildlife shelter in Taiwan’s southeastern Pingtung County has genetic defects, which cost the shelter some NT$200,000 (US$5,979) per month to raise, the shelter’s…
Two albino lion cubs born in Ukraine zoo Updated: 19:31, Saturday July 14, 2012 Two rare albino lion cubs have been born in the Ukraine, welcomed as a new addition at a zoo in Yalta. The two girls are pure white and strong and healthy. A rare genetic mutation gives these white lion cubs their…
LAS VEGAS — Poker pro Lee Watkinson put up the money and girlfriend Timmi De Rosa gave her heart to an effort to rescue two adult chimpanzees that had outgrown their youthful cuteness in a northwest Las Vegas neighborhood. “We wanted to build a sanctuary,” Watkinson said Friday. “We found them in a bad situation….
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A female lion cub born at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens on June 30 continues the baby boom that started at the zoo with the birth of two Amur Leopard cubs on May 31. The cub, who is the first surviving lion birth at the zoo since 1974, is also being nursed…
Topeka Zoo Announces Hope of AZA Accreditation …which used to be a violation of the accrediting process As they prepare for the arrival of a second Sumatran tiger later this month, Topeka Zoo officials are getting ready for a three-day visit next week from a group that ultimately will determine its status with a…