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They Bought a Pub, Then Turned It Into a Zoo

Come have a pint with meerkats, coatis, and lemurs.
Kelsey Kennedy June 27, 2017
King enjoying a cat nap
Center Point, Indiana

Exotic Feline Rescue Center

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!
The gardens of Jardin d'Acclimatation
Paris, France

Jardin d'Acclimatation

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.
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The World's Favorite Wombat Has Died

RIP, Patrick.
Cara Giaimo April 19, 2017
"Rufus the Raccoon scores a basket" vintage postcard.
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The Experimental Zoo Where Parrots Rollerskated and Chickens Played Baseball

It was run by a pair of psychologists under the principles of operant conditioning.
Andy Wright February 28, 2017
Ido Michaeli's "Black Panther Got Loose From the Bronx Zoo."
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A 1902 Panther Escape Becomes Political

Ido Michaeli's new tapestry, "Black Panther Got Loose From the Bronx Zoo," brings allegory to a zoo breakout.
Cara Giaimo February 9, 2017
Ollie, the escaped bobcat.
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Escaped Bobcat Found in D.C. Not Long After Officials Gave Up Looking

Ollie was free for a couple days though.
Erik Shilling February 1, 2017
A rough time for Copenhagen's polar bears.
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Two Danish Polar Bears Are Getting Divorced

They can't seem to get along.
Cara Giaimo January 6, 2017
31 days of halloween

Watch Soviet Scientists Bring a Dog's Decapitated Head Back to Life

What was supposed to be the stuff of medical miracles ended up being a horror show.
Molly McBride Jacobson October 12, 2016
Dogs on a hike.
Alajuela, Costa Rica

Territorio de Zaguates (Land of Strays)

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.
An actually wild African penguin.
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Two Dudes Broke Into An Aquarium And Freed A Penguin Named Buddy

Now all of South Africa is trying to find him.
Cara Giaimo September 28, 2016
Miami Metrozoo flamingos, riding out Hurricane Andrew.
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The Story Behind the Most Famous Photo from Hurricane Andrew

How do you keep a flamingo flock safe in a major storm?
Cara Giaimo September 6, 2016
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British Zoo Enjoys Record Tarantula Birth

Two hundred tiny Monserrat tarantulas now have the run of the Chester Zoo.
Cara Giaimo August 15, 2016
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Found: Fugitive Red Panda That Spent 242 Days on the Lam

The last of three escapees is brought to heel.
Sarah Laskow August 5, 2016
Rear view of the two figures atop the Annie Stewart Memorial Fountain located near the effigy mounds at the end of Erin Street overlooking the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison, Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin

Annie Stewart Memorial Fountain

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.
Duisburg, Germany

Zoo Zajac

The world's biggest pet store.
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Found: Pet Hoard of Over 250 Birds, Scores of Reptiles, And Some Cats

Authorities took them all away. Well, not the cats.
Sarah Laskow June 24, 2016
The praying mantis on the ride. Photo:
Bronx, New York

Bronx Zoo Bug Carousel

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.