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Country Name of animal Scientific name (Latin name) Picture Ref. Algeria Fennec fox (national animal) Vulpes zerda Argentina Rufous hornero (national bird) Furnarius rufus Antigua and Barbuda European fallow deer (national animal) Dama dama Frigate (national bird) Fregata magnificens Hawksbill turtle (national sea creature) Eretmochelys imbricata Azerbaijan Karabakh horse (national horse ...
Gita. Gita was a 48-year-old Asian elephant who died at the Los Angeles Zoo on June 10, 2006. [1] Gita's death prompted dozens of animal rights activists, including In Defense of Animals, to accuse the zoo of neglecting and endangering its animals by placing them in unsatisfactory living conditions, and fueled a years-long debate in the city government over the ethics of keeping elephants in a ...
An elephant who lived alone in a zoo in the Philippines for decades and was dubbed the “world’s saddest elephant” by charity People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta), has died ...
Lin Wang became the most famous and popular animal in Taiwan, and in 1983 the zoo threw the first birthday party for his sixty-sixth birthday. Since then, his birthday was celebrated every year on the last Sunday of October at the zoo, attracting thousands of visitors, including visitations from Taipei mayors.
Tregembo Animal Park is a zoo in Wilmington, North Carolina. Founded as the Tote-Em-In Zoo in 1952 by George and June Tregembo, [ 1 ] featuring animals and a collection of "oddities", [ 2 ] the park was renamed the Tregembo Animal Park in 2004.
Memphis Zoo's "Avenue of the Animals" Cat Country exhibit. Cat Country, a 3-acre (1.2 ha), open-air exhibit focused on both predators and prey of the cat world, opened in 1993. [6] Tigers and lions share common space with fennec foxes and meerkats. An Education Complex, Discovery Center, and the Elephant's Trunk Zoo Shop also opened at this ...
African bush elephants and Asian elephants are listed as endangered and African forest elephants as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). One of the biggest threats to elephant populations is the ivory trade , as the animals are poached for their ivory tusks.
The zoo has 145 species of land animals, [2] including 8 endangered species (the tiger, the takin, Asian elephant, the Burmese large tortoise, the great hornbill, the marsh crocodile and the eld's deer). [5] In 2000, the number of land animals in the zoo was 1203 [5] while that in 2006 was 1100. [2]