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A baby echidna is called a puggle.

📽: Taronga Zoo #animals #globalmuseum #zoos

Wowcher apologises for 'unacceptable' email mocking boy's crocodile attack at zoo

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/wowcher-apologises-unacceptable-email-mocking-37328203

Sumatran Tiger Cubs Born in the UK Is Huge Win–with Only 400 Left in Wild

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/sumatran-tiger-cubs-born-in-the-uk-is-huge-win-with-only-400-left-in-wild/

Cambridgeshire zoo owner’s wife ‘jumped into crocodile enclosure’ to save three-year-old boy

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/crocodile-attack-old-hurst-zoo-37317935

"A local person told the Sun: “Apparently the boy has a broken pelvis and a broken arm, but thankfully the crocodile didn’t actually get to him.”

I shouldn't have to get halfway down the article to see if the poor boy was attacked by a crocodile or not.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/18/man-arrested-after-boy-3-injured-in-cambridgeshire-zoo-crocodile-enclosure

#Cambridgeshite #UKCrime #Crocodiles #Zoos

Tasmanian devil Mary found 2km from her Gold Coast theme park home after two weeks on the run
By Joe Hinchliffe

Carnivorous animal taken to hospital in an unstable condition after escaping from quarantine facility in Paradise Country on 2 June

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/17/tasmanian-devil-mary-found-2km-from-her-gold-coast-theme-park-home-after-two-weeks-on-the-run

#Queensland #Australianews #GoldCoast #Themeparks #Animals #Tasmaniandevils #Zoos #JoeHinchliffe

#zoos #Nazis #documenteries #aurochs #HeckCattle

"‘American Zoo’ reveals Nazi-linked animal breeding program at Catskill Game Farm

A new documentary examines the beloved zoo’s dark past. But don’t expect the filmmaker to tell you what to think.

Memories of the Catskill Game Farm tend to carry plenty of nostalgia for locals who visited the family-owned petting zoo during its 73 years in operation. But a new documentary turns a spotlight on a particularly dark corner of the tourist attraction’s history.

'American Zoo' had its U.S. premiere on June 4 at the Tribeca Film Festival. Directed by British filmmaker Tim Travers Hawkins, the film uses footage Travers Hawkins discovered in 2022 during a visit to the former zoo to explore its troubled past — including links to a Nazi-era animal-breeding program aimed at reviving extinct animal species.

'When I was first looking at the film, I absolutely had no idea it was going to lead me to a Nazi breeding program,' Travers Hawkins, a two-time Emmy-nominated filmmaker, said in an interview with the Times Union.

Opened in 1933 by German immigrant Roland Lindemann, the Catskill Game Farm became the nation’s first privately owned zoo in 1958. Over its seven decades of operation, the Game Farm’s menagerie grew to approximately 2,000 animals and 150 species.
In addition to being a major tourist attraction in the Catskills, the Game Farm had breeding programs to supply animals to other zoos — and, apparently, to bring animals back from extinction.

Through the found footage and numerous interviews with former gamekeepers and descendants, Travers Hawkins was able to piece together the history of the two main families at the core of the operation: the Lindemanns and the Hecks."

https://www.timesunion.com/movies/article/catskill-game-farm-nazi-documentary-22297408.php

Wolves Attack and Bite 2 Zookeepers Who Entered the Animals’ Enclosure to Assess a Dead Wolf

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://people.com/wolves-attack-2-zookeepers-who-were-assessing-dead-wolf-washington-park-zoo-indiana-11992750