ZooNews Digest

16/11/2022

I am aware that I have been sent a number of vacancies to post out and will do this asap.
However my health is extremely poor and it is preventing me doing anything. Even posting this message was difficult.

15/11/2022

Case study: Modifying repetitive behavior in a polar bear (Ursus maritimus)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/zoo.21745

Change in pacing bout duration across three conditions in a zoo-housed polar bear. By changing the contingencies of reinforcement, there was a change in the bear's behavior; initially with a shift in...

15/11/2022

Showing off: Wild chimpanzees show others objects simply to share attention
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-wild-chimpanzees-simply-attention.html

Researchers have observed a wild chimpanzee showing an object to its mother simply for sharing's sake—social behavior previously thought to be unique to humans.

14/11/2022

Videos show Oleg Zubkov taking animals from Kherson Zoo to his Crimean safari park. It's one of many instances of fleeing Russians looting Ukrainian cities.

14/11/2022

https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/SSC%20Quarterly%20Report%202022%20September.pdf

12/11/2022

https://www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/induced-pluripotent-stem-cells-generated-from-sumatran-rhino-skin-cells-367501

Researchers have successfully generated stem cells from a male Sumatran rhino's skin cells, with the goal of creating s***m cells that may help to save the endangered species from extinction.

12/11/2022

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/11/turtle-poaching-cites-endangered-species

Panama Cites convention considers proposals to protect turtle populations also depleted for food, medication and colorful shells

12/11/2022

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/10/iberian-lynx-aura-that-helped-save-species-from-extinction-dies-aged-20

Aura, born when just 94 Iberian lynxes remained, dies in Spain at record age and leaves a ‘phenomenal legacy’

11/11/2022

https://www.ktvu.com/news/lisa-the-elephant-receiving-stem-cell-infusion-therapy-at-oakland-zoo

One of the elephants at Oakland Zoo is receiving cutting-edge treatment in the form of stem-cell infusions to help with the animal's arthritis.

11/11/2022

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-11-10/Qinling-Giant-Panda-Science-Park-to-be-established-in-NW-China-1eQqEn0iU2k/index.html

Qinling Giant Panda Science Park will be established in Chang'an District, Xi'an City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

11/11/2022

Part 3 available now. Well wort a listen. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ddfp

Uncaged

11/11/2022

https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/hunting-caused-rhino-horns-to-shrink-in-last-century-cambri-9282849/

They examined photos from between 1886 and 2018.

11/11/2022

New details about Taronga Zoo lion escapes
https://www.moreechampion.com.au/story/7977530/new-details-about-taronga-zoo-lion-escapes/

Five lions managed to escape their enclosure at Taronga Zoo after squeezing through a gap in a broken...

10/11/2022

Zoology Terminology
Nictitating Membrane (noun) - a thin membrane found in many animals at the inner angle or beneath the lower lid of the eye and capable of extending across the eyeball.

Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) are one of the few mammals with a full (rather than vestigial) nictitating membrane. It helps prevent snow blindness.

Happy Polar Bear Week!

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10/11/2022

10/11/2022

https://vocal.media/petlife/how-to-keep-killer-whales-innovated-through-creativity

A new study conducted on killer whales in human care shows how these complex marine mammals can get creative daily.

10/11/2022

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/11/gloomy-octopus-throwing-behavior-silt-shells/672059/

Deciphering the behavior of cephalopods can be messy.

09/11/2022

https://wtop.com/animals-pets/2022/11/2-asian-elephants-move-in-at-national-zoo-and-conservation-biology-institute/

Trong Nhi and daughter Nhi Linh are a gift from the Rotterdam Zoo in South Holland, Netherlands.