These photos were taken early in summer 2009 by photography student Casey Gutteridge at the Santago Rare Leopard Project in Hertfordshire, England. The leopard – a female called Sheena – discovered a visitor in her enclosure: Intrigued by the mouse, the cat sniffed the visitor: The mouse didn’t seem too concerned and carried on eating: Although we [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Zoos’
24/04/2009
ANOTHER ON-LINE MUSEUM
November 2007 The University of California Museum of Paleontology has loads of material on-line. Well worth a mooch around. Try identifying the mystery fossil!
22/04/2009
HAPPY ORANGS, GRUMPY HUMANS?
September 2007 I hope you were impressed by the new Orang house at Chester Zoo. I thought it was fantastic, and the Orangs seemed happier (that was also the impression of the Birmingham Uni final year project students who were studying their behaviour after the change of enclosure). But the public is apparently unhappy – the Zoo has had [...]
22/04/2009
BLUE PLANET SUICIDE
September 2007 You may remember the massive Amazonian Arapaima (callled Harry) from your visit to the Blue Planet Aquarium. Well this year, it wasn’t there. A couple of months ago it managed to escape by jumping out of its tank – all 2m of it! – and sadly died, flopping on the floor. It has been sent to [...]
22/04/2009
BELUGA BIRTH!
September 2007 Does what it says on the tin! BBC news video – may not play outside UK.
20/04/2009
AHHH – MORE BABY ANIMALS
March 2007 A tabby tiger. Honest. BBC news video (may not play outside UK).
20/04/2009
AAHH. MORE CUTE BABY ANIMALS
March 2007 Twin baby giraffes. BBC news video here (may not work outside UK).
20/04/2009
GETTING ZOO ANIMALS TO MATE
March 2007 Radio 4 programme about the difficulties faced by captive breeding programmes, in particular for the white rhino. Can be downloaded as MP3.
20/04/2009
CUTE BABY PANDAS
March 2007 Skanky baby pandas, multiple baby pandas, sneezing baby panda.
20/04/2009
FATAL FROG FUNGUS
February 2007 This from Annya Smyth, currently on placement: “I stumbled across this article all about a mysterious killer fungus which is rapidly wiping out frog populations around the globe. I am working with frogs (albeit dead frogs, ) and I saw this. I had no idea the devastation this fungus was causing and just thought that as [...]
