Easter egg hunt at Seattle zoo turns violent

One of the usually peaceful springtime rituals of childhood — the Easter egg hunt — turned nasty at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle.

One of the usually peaceful springtime rituals of childhood — the Easter egg hunt — turned nasty at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle.

An exotic animal park in California was following safety protocols when a lion attacked and killed a 24-year-old intern, her relatives say, describing the death as a tragic accident.
We love our animals so much. This is an extension of our home.”

It may sound like a doomed love story, but some dogs love big cats. Cheetahs are the fastest mammals in the world, but they also are the world’s biggest scaredy-cats — so much so that they don’t breed easily and are in danger of extinction.
A MONTH after its capture, a six-foot female King Cobra was turned over to the Cebu City Zoo yesterday.

Wild dogs mauled a young boy to death at a zoo in the US city of Pittsburgh, local media reported said Sunday.

A female keeper was rushed to hospital in a critical condition Friday after being pinned against a bollard by an elephant at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo, authorities said.
Preparations for the turnover of the King Cobra to a research institute starts today, the city veterinarian said.

A tiger escaped its enclosure at Cologne Zoo in western Germany on Saturday and killed a female keeper before being shot dead by the zoo’s director, police said.

An eight-foot long female crocodile that supposedly escaped from its cage in a mini zoo in Kidapawan City following a flashflood there on Saturday.
Children eagerly raised their hands as host Susie Abrera asked, “What insect spits on food they land on?”

An orangutan who became the star attraction of an Indonesian zoo for her penchant for puffing on cigarettes will be forced to quit cold turkey, a conservationist said Saturday.

Media reports said a zookeeper has died after being attacked by wolves in their enclosure in Sweden’s largest zoo.