Internet-famous Patrick the wombat at the Ballarat Wildlife Park in Victoria, Australia (Facebook/Ballarat Wildlife Park)Social media can make celebrities out of the most unlikely people.
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Internet-famous Patrick the wombat with a human carer at the Ballarat Wildlife Park in Victoria, Australia (Facebook/Ballarat Wildlife Park)"I'm so sorry to hear this," another Facebook commenter said.
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Residing at Australia's Ballarat Wildlife Park since the '80s, Patrick was both.
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The video comes from Symbio Wildlife Park, located south of Sydney, Australia.
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Sara Ang from the wildlife park says all animals and staff are safe.
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But, if you're missing a compass, maybe you shouldn't be in a wildlife park.
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An albino kookaburra who calls Symbio Wildlife Park in Australia, home is one such bird.
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A spokesperson for Tanganyika Wildlife Park did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
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The owner, a wildlife park employee, lived nearby and was easily reunited with the animals.
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Chori is the resident red panda at Australia's Symbio Wildlife Park, and she just turned 16!
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The bear is a Kodiak named Berkeley who lives at Discovery Wildlife Park in southern Alberta.
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According to the Toledo Blade, the African Safari Wildlife Park celebrated its 50th season last year.
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England's Paradise Wildlife Park recently made some updates to its CCTV system, but Jessie missed the memo.
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Gorongosa coffee is already on sale at the gift shop at the wildlife park&aposs Chitengo lodge.
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The wildlife park would regularly post photos of Patrick, which was the highlight of many people's day.
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Sam Mitchell, who runs Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park, stayed with the animals when the fires moved in.
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The wildlife park is holding a "Dingo Puppy Weekend" so visitors can take photos for their Instagram etc.
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When Ranjan clicked on her profile, she saw that the two had been to the wildlife park together.
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A wildlife park outside of Wollongong, Australia, is looking for three monkeys and they're desperate for your help.
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Since the fires, the wildlife park has transformed itself from a tourist attraction into a makeshift animal hospital.
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Meet Chori, the resident red panda at Australia's Symbio Wildlife Park, who just turned the magical number 16.
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Always put a smile on my face.. Rest in Peace little guy.. You will be missed XoXoX"Internet-famous Patrick the wombat with some humans at the Ballarat Wildlife Park in Victoria, Australia (Facebook/Ballarat Wildlife Park)"Who would have imagined that I'd come to care so much about a wombat?
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It's notable for the Yorkshire Wildlife Park, its vicinity to various historic buildings, and, apparently, incredibly attractive local government.
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That's the fairy tale this video from Symbio Wildlife Park in New South Wales, Australia, shares with the world.
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"Its sad conclusion highlights the importance of keeping a safe distance from park wildlife," park officials said on Facebook.
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It won't be allowed back on the island, but will be relocated at Perth Zoo or a wildlife park.
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Little Gaz was apparently brought to the wildlife park by a member of the public after being found orphaned.
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Recently, the Yorkshire Wildlife Park in England offered to take in Pizza — an offer indignantly declined by the aquarium.
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"Unfortunately, if it's not extinct, it's close to it," said Bill Dunlop, the manager of Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park.
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According to Paradise Wildlife Park staff, after Jessie awoke and rolled over to stretch, she suddenly saw the new camera.
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The unidentified resident of Symbio Wildlife Park, Australia, is the perfect role model for stressed-out human counterparts this weekend.
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As many animal lovers know, a safari through a wildlife park can be unpredictable, exciting and sometimes a little scary.
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Discovery Wildlife Park has not responded to VICE's request for comment, but this story will updated it if it does.
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That number seems to have come from Sam Mitchell, the co-owner of the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park in Duncan.
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LONDON — Two armadillo pups are now under the care of the Cotswold Wildlife Park after they were rejected by their mother.
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These five dingo pups reside at Featherdale Wildlife Park in Sydney, Australia, the first for new mum Smudge and dad, Bear.
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The otter was released into the Out of Africa Wildlife Park in Camp Verde, where he's currently living his best life.
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His passion for wildlife started as a child when he would help out at his parents' roadside wildlife park in Queensland.
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The women were among eight foreign tourists killed in the attack, which also claimed the life of a wildlife-park warden.
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"We decided to evacuate and were lucky to escape the fires," said Tassin Barnard, operations manager of the Walkabout Wildlife Park.
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Patrick lived at Ballarat Wildlife Park for his entire life, arriving at the park after his mother was hit by a car.
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At Wingham Wildlife Park in Kent, UK, two male Humboldt penguins named Jumbs and Kermit successfully incubated an egg together in 2014.
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Unique survival mechanism Alligators at a wildlife park in North Carolina survived frigid conditions by poking their noses out of the ice.
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Each day Australians have brought about 30 injured koalas to the Kangaroo Wildlife Park, at the edge of the island's fire zone.
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Panja, the other snow leopard at Paradise Wildlife Park, took a peek at the camera after the more daring Jessie inspected it first.
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The gator was found by biker Dan Fundingsland on the Paul Bunyan Trail, and now resides in Safari North Wildlife Park in Brainerd.
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Its then-owner temporarily rehoused the shark in a small wildlife park that was devoted to the preservation of the Giant Gippsland Earthworm.
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"It's a boy!" the director of the Pairi Daiza wildlife park, Eric Domb, told a news conference at the zoo in southern Belgium.
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One of the two newborn twin panda cubs is seen in its incubator at Pairi Daiza wildlife park, in Brugelette, Belgium, Aug. 24.
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Visitors to a Beijing drive-by wildlife park narrowly escaped the claws of black bears after they swarmed a white hatchback on Feb. 26th.
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Experiences you might have while visiting a wildlife park: zebra sightings, sunburn, enormous cats licking the condensation off your tent while you're trapped inside.
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Yorkshire Wildlife Park has asked Guangzhou's Grandview Aquarium to let them move Pizza, as he is known, to their specially designed polar bear habitat.
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The mother, Victoria, is one of three adult polar bears at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland's Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig, near Aviemore.
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Sedgwick County Sheriff's Lt. Tim Myers told KCTV 5 that the camel, cow, and donkey all belonged to an employee of Tanganyika Wildlife Park.
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Now the polar bears, one of which was born at the wildlife park late last year, can have a brief reminder of their natural habitat.
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The lambs at Avon Valley Adventure and Wildlife Park in southwest England will be extra stylish this spring because of their new tiny knitted jumpers.
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The Canadian Press also found that in 2015, Discovery Wildlife Park was found to have more than 50 violations after being investigated by Zoocheck Canada.
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Most recently in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, three rangers at Garamba wildlife park were killed and two more were injured by elephant poachers.
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The Caversham Wildlife Park, about a 30-minute drive from the city center, is a family-friendly way to see some of Australia's native creatures.
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Two giraffes were struck by lightning and killed in what is being described as a "billion-to-one" incident at a Florida wildlife park last month.
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During a photoshoot at Symbio Wildlife Park, a monarch butterfly perched itself on the schnoz of Willow the koala, as she prepped for her close up.
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Lilleth is about twice the size of a domestic cat, and has "black tufts on her ears," the wildlife park said in a statement on Facebook.
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William was pictured feeding Grumeti at a wildlife park in Kent, England, in 2012, before she was flown to Tanzania on a specially-adapted Boeing 747.
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In December, Victoria, a beautiful lady polar bear living at the Royal Zoological Society's Highland Wildlife Park in Kincraig, Scotland, gave birth to a healthy cub.
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" Regardless of the final decision, Jan Stander, director of Phundundu Wildlife Park in Zimbabwe, said the lifting of the trophy bans is "too little, too late.
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Visitors can check out the cub and its mom Victoria at the Royal Zoological Society's Highland Wildlife Park in Scotland, where it was born in December.
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Patrick the wombat, a beloved resident of the Ballarat Wildlife Park in Victoria, Australia, was adored the world over for his buck-toothed smile and winning personality.
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GIANT GATORS SURROUND COUPLE DURING &aposSNAPPY&apos PROPOSAL AT FLORIDA THEME PARK The park closed Monday, along with wildlife park ZooAmerica, after heavy rain and flash flooding.
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"We need people to be stewards of Yellowstone, and one way to do that is to keep your distance from wildlife," park superintendent Dan Wenk told BNQT .
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Mother polar bear Victoria is believed to have given birth at the Highland Wildlife Park in northeastern Scotland after staff heard high pitched cries in late December.
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Maine Wildlife Park houses 30 species of local wildlife, and many of its animals were once injured or orphaned and are at the park as a refuge.
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In a statement on Facebook, African Safari Wildlife Park said they were "devastated" by the loss, and confirmed that no staff members were injured during the blaze.
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A Short Hike can be finished pretty quickly as your only real objective is to climb to the top of the mountain of a wildlife park island.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The wolverine, a carnivore confined to colder climates since the last Ice Age, has re-established a tenuous foothold further south in a Belgian wildlife park.
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The poachers broke through a gate at the wildlife park during the night and forced the metal door of the enclosure where the rhino lived, the zoo said.
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Now, a publicized offer from Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster, England, to re-home the bear seems to have offered some hope of a happy ending for Pizza.
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According to Symbio Wildlife Park, the monkeys were found to be in good condition and reunited with their mother early Monday morning, but the father's location remained unknown.
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The 6-year-old male leopard, suspected of straying onto the school grounds from a nearby forest, was eventually tranquilized and taken to a wildlife park for treatment.
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Shanghai Wildlife Park celebrated its resident giant pandas' second birthdays on Thursday by throwing them a party and it's exactly as pure as you need it to be.
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Cassius, a crocodile living in a wildlife park that sits in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, is the largest crocodile in captivity, according to Guinness World Records.
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Big game hunting is an activity that garnered worldwide attention when a Minnesota dentist took Cecil, perhaps the world's most famous lion, near a wildlife park in Zimbabwe.
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KAMPALA (Reuters) - An American woman and her driver have been kidnapped at Uganda's most popular wildlife park by gunmen demanding a ransom of $500,000, police said on Wednesday.
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On Thursday, the owner and some staff members of the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park said they were going to stay despite the threat of fires on the island.
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The snow leopard, one of two living at the wildlife park, didn't notice the new camera in her enclosure when she went to curl up for a cat nap.
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Courtney Janney is the Curator of Large Mammals at the Memphis Zoo, but to the animals at the wildlife park, her role is something more akin to Santa Claus.
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The Danbury Township Police confirmed to PEOPLE that firefighters responded to the African Safari Wildlife Park in Port Clinton, Ohio, after reports of a fire around 6:15 p.m.
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"Our African Safari Wildlife Park team is devastated by the loss of animals housed in a barn destroyed by fire that was discovered early Thanksgiving evening," the statement read.
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Employees at the Mogo Wildlife Park in Australia scrambled to rescue animals from raging wildfires this week, with some staff taking animals home with them to save their lives.
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According to the Associated Press, Filya was just taking a nap at the wildlife park earlier this summer when a open-air vehicle with a load of tourists motored up.
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They have played cricket, visited a wildlife park, met with officials and royal super-fans, and have been the subject of controversy over the intense press coverage surrounding their visit.
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In the video, a Discovery Wildlife Park trainer, Serena Bos, feeds the bear the cake while taking questions on Facebook Live, including one about what else they feed the animal.
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Big game hunting is an activity that garnered worldwide attention in 2015 when a Minnesota dentist took Cecil, perhaps the world's most famous lion, near a wildlife park in Zimbabwe.
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Hidden artwork, towers and exhibits await visitors to the over 800-year-old Mont Orgueil Castle, and at Durrell Wildlife Park, travelers can appreciate orangutans, reptiles and a family of gorillas.
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During a photo shoot at Symbio Wildlife Park in Helensburgh, Australia, a monarch butterfly decided to take centre stage, plonking itself on the schnoz of Willow, the one-year-old koala.
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Discovery Wildlife Park pushed back on the idea that their video is reckless by saying that the Dairy Queen was closed when they brought a bear in a truck through it.
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According to them, I could see a four-meter [13-foot] great white shark floating in a tank of formaldehyde in an abandoned wildlife park, within an hour and a half's drive.
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"We're really three parks in one," said Kathleen McGraw, director of communication for Hershey Entertainment and Resorts, referring to Hersheypark, its Boardwalk section's water attractions and the ZooAmerica North American Wildlife Park.
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I had a chance to talk to Shah at the Nairobi National Park, a wildlife park just next to the city with the skyline surreally visible at the horizon of the savannah.
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One rare case of opposition has involved a university lecturer, who sued a wildlife park in Hangzhou after it replaced its fingerprint-based entry system with one that used facial recognition technology.
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One rare case of opposition has involved a university lecturer, who sued a wildlife park in Hangzhou after it replaced its fingerprint-based entry system with one that used facial recognition technology.
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This pearly white snake was discovered in Australia this past June and given to authorities at the Territory Wildlife Park in Berry Springs, which posted photos of the snake on its Facebook page.
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JOHANNESBURG – A wildlife park in eastern Congo that is home to critically endangered mountain gorillas will remain closed to tourism following an attack in which two British tourists were abducted and later released.
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According to Spectrum News, the line to get into the wildlife park on opening day snaked into the parking lot, filled with people eager to see April, Tajiri and dad Oliver all together.
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So it's not that huge of a shock that there exists another video—this time posted by the Innisfail Dairy Queen—showing Discovery Wildlife Park feeding the bear a full ice cream cake.
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" The presentation scolded Yorkshire Wildlife Park, arguing that there should be "absolutely no collusion with animal-rights agendas" that might "conflict with the future survival of our members and the species they protect.
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It's the aptly-named "Cage of Death" at wildlife park Crocosaurus Cove in Darwin, Australia, where you can basically pay to be dunked in an acrylic tank alongside a 5-metre-long saltwater crocodile.
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At Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, visitors can take a walk or travel by tram through one of the park's many scenic trails, where they'll find bears, wolves, cougars, and birds living in the forest.
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Photo: Facebook/Symbio Wildlife ParkThree days after burglars stole a family of pygmy marmosets from Symbio Wildlife Park near Sydney, Australia, the eldest marmoset, a 10-year-old male named Gomez, remained missing, Buzzfeed reports.
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As part of its touristic legacy, Jos had a wildlife park, which was said to be more of a depressing kind of zoo, and while I was there, its sole lion escaped and was shot.
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Transport Scotland's construction contractor Wills Bros John Paul JV is working with the RZSS Highland Wildlife Park to find a more environmentally friendly means of disposing of damaged or unwanted materials from its A9 construction project.
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PHOENIX (Reuters) - A manhunt for an armed fugitive that triggered the evacuation of a popular wildlife park south of the Grand Canyon ended peacefully on Monday with the arrest of the suspect, police in Arizona said.
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" (He was referring to South Africa's best known wildlife park, which has paved roads cutting across it and the occasional traffic jam.) "This," Shaun said, spreading his arms as wide as possible, "is the real Africa.
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PARIS — One or more poachers shot and killed a 4-year-old white rhinoceros in a wildlife park near Paris, sawed off one of its horns and then escaped, officials at the park said on Tuesday.
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Surveillance video shows what went down Saturday at Badaling Wildlife Park in Beijing -- the daughter got out of the car and walked to the other side ... and that's when the tiger pounced and dragged her away.
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HARARE (Reuters) - An Italian father and son have been shot dead by a ranger in a wildlife park in Zimbabwe, the parks and wildlife agency said on Monday, saying the pair had been mistaken for elephant poachers.
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Bears have become a popular attraction for visitors to Kaktovik, a 252-person Native Alaskan village surrounded by the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), the U.S.'s largest wildlife park covering 232 million acres (216 million hectares).
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RANUA, Finland (Reuters) - A group of polar bears in a zoo in Lapland in northern Finland got an early wintry treat in the summer heat when truckloads of snow were delivered to the Ranua wildlife park on Wednesday.
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Here's the week in good news, including an urban farm that's helping ex-prisoners, above; a wildlife park that might be the most biologically diverse area in the world; and a breakthrough drug that promises to prevent migraines.
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According to The Guardian, Discovery Wildlife Park in Alberta — a province in Western Canada — and its owners are facing charges after a Kodiak bear from the zoo was taken to a local Dairy Queen and hand-fed ice cream.
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But Maggie's bad news ends there: Shortly after befriending the Lugdon family, Maggie was picked up by biologists and moved to Maine Wildlife Park, where she will be able to live her life in nature with other moose friends.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan authorities have fitted a tracking device a onto one of the 36 lions that live in a wildlife park on the outskirts of the capital city, aiming to stop the animals coming into unwanted contact with people.
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The accused gunman was believed to have possibly fled into the Bearizona Wildlife Park after a confrontation with police that began as a traffic stop and turned into a high-speed chase, a spokesman for the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office said.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Maasai herders near Tanzania's famous Serengeti wildlife park have asked a regional court to stop the government intimidating witnesses supporting their legal bid to return to their ancestral land, a lawyer for the community said on Thursday.
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Before the pandas were born, more than five million people suggested names for the pair and when they were finally unveiled at the wildlife park, hoards of visitors came to see them for the first time, according to Daily Mail.
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The wildlife park, which is about 30 miles west of Paris, said in a statement on Facebook that the rhinoceros, a male named Vince, was found dead by one of his caretakers Tuesday morning with gunshot wounds to the head.
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KAMPALA (Reuters) - An American woman who was kidnapped with her driver at Uganda's most popular wildlife park by gunmen had failed to take an armed ranger as required by the park's regulations, a spokesman for the country's wildlife authority said on Thursday.
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"We are continuing to collaborate with other breeding institutions to improve the long-term viability of our program, such as Devil Ark in the Barrington Tops, where Lana and Pooki came from, and Tasmania's Trowunna Wildlife Park, where the father originated," Steve said.
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The four-year-old male white rhino called Vince was found dead in his enclosure by his keeper at the Thoiry zoo and wildlife park about 50 km (30 miles) west of Paris on Tuesday morning after an overnight break-in, the zoo said.
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NAIROBI, Kenya – A tenth critically endangered black rhino has died after being moved from Kenya&aposs capital to a new wildlife park and the sole survivor has been attacked by lions, wildlife authorities said Thursday in what some conservationists have called a national disaster.
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Three years ago, director Colin Trevorrow brought Steven Spielberg's long-dormant Jurassic Park franchise back to life, with a storyline about a futuristic wildlife park that was so desperate to keep selling tickets, it was willing to genetically modify its creatures in the name of spectacle.
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Here are your choices, and some helpful background that you should read thoroughly so that you can make an informed decision: Paul Gillis / Avon Valley Wildlife Park The lambs are good because they are the most festive — they got themselves born just to celebrate that it's springtime!
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A 3-year-old girl (Klarysa Aurelia Raditya) abandoned by her father at the Ragunan Zoo, a 350-acre wildlife park in South Jakarta, is taken under the wing of a giraffe trainer in this dreamy fable with a dark undercurrent from the Indonesian director Edwin.
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For one thing, the wildlife park will soon be open to the public again for the summer season; this means April, the calf (who is being named via contest) and dad Olivier will be out of their pens and on display until the park closes at 5 p.m.
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The antivivisection society and other groups have tried to block the export of the Yerkes chimps because they fear that the English zoo, Wingham Wildlife Park, may breed them, producing more chimps in captivity, and that the export could set a precedent for the wildlife service's handling of chimpanzees.
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All of the animals appeared to have been caught in the wild, according to Jason Palmer, curator of collections at New Forest Wildlife Park in Britain and an adviser to the I.U.C.N. "This place looks very suspicious, like nothing more than a holding facility for animals for sale," Mr. Palmer said.
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This American, a lifelong New Yorker who may as well have been born with smog-filled lungs and debris-clogged pores and an overflowing recycling bin, left weird, green, beautiful Australia happier, healthier, forever changed, the new owner of a reusable water bottle from the souvenir shop at Cleland Wildlife Park — and four days later than originally planned.
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"Unusual as the call may have seemed, any call reporting a potential danger to the public has to be taken seriously and efforts were made to verify the sighting as soon as possible, including starting to make contact with the nearest wildlife park to make sure they did not have an escapee," North East Police Division wrote on Facebook.
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William, who has regularly raised fears that these animals will be lost from the world by the time his 2-year-old daughter, Princess Charlotte, is 25, appears after the film tells of how a local army colonel and three rangers were killed, in late fall 2015, by poachers who raided Garamba Wildlife Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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William, who last month said it was "heartbreaking" that elephants, rhinos and tigers could be gone from the wild forever by the time his three children are grown up, appears in a segment of the film that explores the 2015 murders of a local army colonel and three rangers, all of whom were killed by poachers in Garamba Wildlife Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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We both applaud and cringe when it changes hands and becomes first a venue for the '70s subculture, with its voluptuaries, dropouts, druggies and rock musicians, its wealthy patrons and hangers-on, and then, at the end, a "public show" with a little train that takes tourists on rides through the estate, a wildlife park, a craft center and garden shop and — the ultimate indignity — a television series whose measure of success is its sale to an American network.
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