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An Ohio zookeeper has been hospitalized after being attacked by a cheetah, the Columbus, Ohio CBS affiliate reports. The incident took place on Thursday when two staff members were walking a 4-year-old cheetah, Isabelle, on her daily exercise. At the same time, a keeper from the Heart of Africa region was also walking down the service […]
Two gorillas at the San Diego Zoo have tested positive for coronavirus, according to a press release shared by the park. Zoo officials believe the coronavirus was spread to two of the gorillas by an asymptomatic park employee. Three gorillas began to exhibit symptoms last Wednesday. Tests returned on Friday from the California Animal Health and […]
A group of cool parrots housed together at a UK zoo had to be split up because they learned to swear and, more importantly, seemed to really be enjoying it. These five foul-mouthed birds, who go by: Billy, Tyson, Elsie, Jade, and Eric, arrived at the Lincolnshire Wildlife Park back in August via donations from […]
The owners running a popular farm/petting zoo in New Jersey are reportedly very pissed off after a bunch of allegedly wayward teens got onto their grounds after hours and abused the animals. Said allegedly wayward teens then managed to get away. The farm in question (Abma’s Farm) has been run by four generations of the same […]
An Australian zookeeper was critically injured Friday after she was mauled by two lions, CBS News reports. Emergency services were called to Shoalhaven Zoo near Sydney on Friday morning. When they arrived, they found an unnamed 35-year-old woman with severe injuries to her head and neck. The employee was airlifted from the zoo to a nearby hospital where she […]
A 23-year-old man was taken into custody this week after he was filmed trying to drown an elderly bear at a newly reopened zoo. The disturbing incident reportedly took place at the Warsaw Zoo in Poland, just a day after the country lifted its coronavirus lockdown. The now-viral footage, shared by The Sun, shows an allegedly intoxicated man standing in […]
Netflix’s Tiger King docuseries was an immediate hit, and now celebrities are endorsing a federal bill that would safeguard the types of big cats that are seen in the show. Filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite and the Animal Legal Defense Fund co-wrote the Big Cat Public Safety Act, which has since been supported by Joaquin Phoenix, Iggy […]
A Bronx Zoo tiger has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to an official statement from the United States Department of Agriculture. This is significant because, as relayed by federal officials, the infection is the first known one to be contracted by an animal in the U.S. or a tiger anywhere on the planet. The […]
If you were wondering, the Tiger King is still married. Getting a 22-year sentence for animal cruelty and conspiring to kill a business rival can’t get in the way of true love. Good to know. Dillon Passage, the fourth husband of Tiger King/Joe Exotic, sat down for an exclusive interview that went down Tuesday on […]
Sporting a shirt and a set of shiny new teeth, Joe Exotic‘s first “husband” John Finlay confirmed on Lights Out with David Spade that the seven alligators and one crocodile burned alive inside the G.W. Exotic Animal Park in 2015 were previously owned by Michael Jackson. This was a fact not mentioned on the popular Netflix docuseries Tiger King. An April 2015 article […]
