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RAW VIDEO: Chester Zoo To Let African Beasts Roam In 'Largest Ever' UK Zoo Habitat

Credit: Chester Zoo/Cover Images The largest UK zoo habitat ever created is set to open at Chester Zoo - where it will be home to 57 varieties of African beast. The new Heart of Africa zone, spanning ...
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African Open Habitats Existed 10 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Estimated

Scientists have long hypthesized that apes living in Africa more than 20 million years ago had a diet largely comprised of fruit while living in a continet-wide ecosystem comprised of thick, closed ...

Africa’s only penguin species is starving: Is there still hope?

Overfishing and ecosystem disruption are leaving African penguins without enough food to survive. Their suffering signals a broader collapse in the ocean food web, but new policies and conservation ...
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Chester Zoo's huge new 'Heart of Africa' habitat set to open

The UK's largest zoo habitat ever created - home to 57 iconic African species - is set to open at Chester Zoo this weekend. The huge new 'Heart of Africa' experience - spanning more than 17 football ...
The Conversation

Giraffes range across diverse African habitats − we’re using GPS, satellites and statistics to track and protect them

Michael Brown works for the Giraffe Conservation Foundation and is an affiliated researcher for the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. He receives funding from the Giraffe ...
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OKC Zoo's Expedition Africa habitat now open: See Pachyderm building updates, zoo babies

For months, visitors to the Oklahoma City Zoo have been met with construction fences blocking off a large portion of the zoo. Now, all 12 acres of the zoo's largest habitat expansion are open to the ...
FOX 5 Atlanta

Zoo Atlanta shows 'pride' in new African lion habitat

Zoo Atlanta's African lion complex reopened earlier this month after an extensive six-month, $3-million renovation project. The project added around 1,500 square feet of space through which the lions ...
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Cincinnati Zoo: Elephants will walk on water at new habitat opening next year

The Cincinnati Zoo is sharing an update on their new elephant exhibit coming next year.The zoo said it is making progress toward its goal of being net zero by 2025. “We started on this journey more ...
MLive

Habitat for giraffes, other animals from Africa part of Grand Rapids zoo’s major proposal

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – John Ball Zoo is looking to build and populate an at least $20 million giraffe habitat with accompanying animals from Africa with the help of federal stimulus dollars administered ...
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Humans adapted to diverse habitats before trekking out of Africa

(Reuters) -Small bands of Homo sapiens made a few failed forays leaving our home continent before the species finally managed to launch a major dispersal out of Africa roughly 50,000 years ago, going ...
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OKC Zoo's Expedition African habitat now open: See Pachyderm building updates, zoo babies

For months, visitors to the Oklahoma City Zoo have been met with construction fences blocking off a large portion of the zoo. Now, all 12 acres of the zoo's largest habitat expansion are open to the ...