The zoo-manager has since confessed that she gave bogus testimony because she was terrified.
Richardson said that that much of the criticism of Berlin Zoo - such as over their merchandising policy - was unjustified.
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Ms. DE BOURBON-RODRIGUEZ: So sometimes the sounds would be similar to the percussive sounds of a trumpet or violins, depending on whether azoo-zoo or pow-pow.
And if a zoo is treating the bear well - as he believes Berlin Zoo was with Knut - then keeping some in captivity is a price worth paying.
And this summer, the after-hours Zoo Lates is bringing grown-ups into the action too.
We also showcased several feats of futuristic architecture -- a skyscraper zoo with a built-in ferris wheel and a shape-shifting solar bridge that purifies the air.
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In the 1980s polar bears became "the poster child" for anti-zoo movement after being kept in cramped concrete pits whose only attempt at recreating the bear's eco-system was white paint.
Throughout its history, its main attractions have been the observatory, Greek theater, zoo, merry-go-round, and Dante's View, which was reportedly destroyed in Wednesday's fire.
The zoo uses so-called hot wires -- or electrically charged cables -- as training tools to keep animals away from such areas as plant beds.
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The lightweight plastic and carbon fiber robot, which is the newest member of a supposed zoo of animal-inspired devices from CMU's NanoRobotics Lab, owes its gravity-defying skills to research done by Harvard University biologists on the basilisk, or Jesus, lizard.
Zoo spokeswoman Mary Dixon said the vehicle landed just inside the southeast perimeter of the 265-acre zoo.
The suburbs would be on the someday list -- the Detroit Zoo and its newly born river otters, the glassblowers and re-enactors at Greenfield Village and Buckminster Fuller's geodesic Dymaxion House at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.
Two baby giant otters - the first to be born at Chester Zoo's new breeding centre - have made their first public appearance.
On the evening of April 23, 2005, Karim uploaded the first video to YouTube an eighteen-second clip of him, standing in front of the elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo, wearing an ill-fitting hiking jacket.
WIMPs and other strange inmates of the sub-atomic zoo continues apace.
The artists range from Leonardo Da Vinci to LS Lowry and the locations of artworks include fire stations, courts, libraries, a former nuclear bunker, London Zoo and a lighthouse - as well as major museums and art galleries.
Much protection, little joy: the trade-off that justifies the zoo business (which Wiseman reveals, with its photo ops and fund-raisers) speaks as well to the blank-eyed viewers of subjugated nature.
"It was a funny game, but it was an ugly game, " said Scott Pitoniak, a one-time denizen of "The Zoo" as a Syracuse student who covered the game for The Observer-Dispatch of nearby Utica, N.
The media frenzy over Knut boosted visitor numbers to 200, 000 in March - double the zoo's normal figure.
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Hanson had been working for two months as an intern at Cat Haven, a 100-acre exotic zoo east of Fresno.
Knut was hand-reared by zoo keepers after being rejected by his mother, a former circus bear from the former East Germany.
The zoo believes the albino red-necked wallaby, which will grow white fur, is a descendant of one given to the Queen.
If the Ravens win, the San Francisco zoo has agreed to re-name the enclosure of its black rhino "Boone, " who is named after the 49ers offensive tackle Alex Boone, in honor of the Ravens.
Latasha Oliver, who moved to the Bronx from Georgia in 2010 and works in guest relations at the Bronx Zoo, says her 8-year-old son, Terrance Lord, has asthma and has been treated at the Montefiore health center at his school, P.
The three-month-old African black-footed penguins, named Bamm-Bamm and Pebbles, are being hand-reared at Whipsnade Zoo.
At the Lincoln Park Zoo, we turned a 19th-century picturesque pond into a real habitat.
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In 2008, the Detroit Zoo sought and won a 10-year 0.1 mill property tax in the three counties.
Instead, it will boast a zoo, water sports, mini-golf, rock-climbing and a paragliding club, officials in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province said.
At the time, some theorised that a male tiger shark kept at the zoo could have been the father - but the institution's three bonnethead females had none of the bite marks that are usually inflicted on their gender during shark sex.
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