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After Knut: Zoos And The Line Between Animal Boredom And Animal Cruelty

HAMBURG – For Stephan Hering-Hagenbeck, whose family has run this city’s zoo for over 100 years, there are challenges both inside and outside the gates of any such “animal park.” Inside this zoo, as for every zoo around the world, the biggest challenge is to keep the animals from getting bored. Hering-Hagenbeck explains that animals […]

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RIP Bao Bao, The Panda: You Furry Old Lonely Has-Been

-Essay- BERLIN – On Wednesday morning, at Berlin Zoo, Bao Bao the giant panda died in his sleep at the age of 34 — which for a panda is a ripe old age. Berlin mourns him, the zoo mourns him … but all the attention will quickly fade away. The truth is that Bao Bao’s […]

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