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Review: 'Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa'  -  Nov 7, 2008
Newsday,BY JOHN ANDERSON | Special to Newsday PLOT The zany, onetime denizens of the Central Park Zoo get back to their roots - on the African savanna.

Art Review: Animal Replicas From the African Savanna  -  Oct 30, 2008
Santa Monica Mirror,A whimsical collection of colorful, beaded creatures, ranging in price from $1500 - $2650, “grazed� for two days in between clothes at Savannah on Montana

Urban Exploration: The Toronto Zoo's Lost Monorail  -  Nov 3, 2008
Wired News...it ran through one side of the African Savanna and I'd rate my chances with lions -even relatively "tame" and well fed zoo lions- to be not so good.

Unsuited for the American Dream?  -  Nov 4, 2008
American SpectatorOur behavioral infantilism goes back to a time when primitive man stalked the African savanna, Whybrow says, when the need for instant gratification was a

Hogle Zoo faces fundraising after bond passes  -  Nov 5, 2008
KSL-TV,Voters approved a $33 million bond for Hogle Zoo to build an African savanna exhibit and an arctic showcase. "We've got a whole lot of people here at our

Other Dallas council action  -  Nov 11, 2008
Dallas Morning News,A new African Savanna exhibit at the Dallas Zoo – part of the fast-track plan to build a new habitat for Jenny the elephant, who isn't going anywhere

Ideas from the animal kingdom  -  Oct 22, 2008
Bangkok Post,Lions can rejoice in the knowledge that thanks to their superior physical size, their perfect integration into the ochre grassland of the African savanna

Movies Review  -  Nov 13, 2008
The Tidings,...try to fly home to their New York City zoo, but land instead on an African savanna where they must continue to adapt to life in the wild.

Interview: How Far Cry 2's Fire Fuels, Spreads  -  Nov 5, 2008
Gamasutra,We also checked a lot of video references of burning African savanna. We tried to accurately represent not only the behavior, but also the color.

Wallets open for zoo ballot measure  -  Oct 29, 2008
Salt Lake Tribune,The Renew the Zoo campaign has raised $641000 to persuade voters to pass a $33 million bond that would fund an arctic exhibit and part of an African savanna

Wise elephants avoid 'danger roads'  -  Oct 28, 2008
International Animal Rescue,Endangered forest elephants in central Africa are avoiding roads at all costs having learned to associate them with poaching, a new conservation report has

Poll shows voters favor Hogle Zoo upgrades, Tracy Aviary makeover  -  Oct 28, 2008
Salt Lake Tribune,...arctic exhibit for polar bears, penguins, harbor seals, arctic foxes and wolverines plus the partial construction of an African savanna.

New movies  -  Nov 9, 2008
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...depressive giraffe Melman (David Schwimmer) and happy hippo Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith) trek from Madagascar to the African savanna, where they learn

At the movies 11.07.08  -  Nov 6, 2008
Abilene Reporter-News,..."MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA" (Century 12) Lost New York Zoo-raised animals manage to escape from Madagascar, only to wind up in the African savanna.

Erie Canal-era barn to be relocated to new exhibit at Buffalo Zoo  -  Nov 6, 2008
Buffalo News,The nation’s third-oldest zoological park is also planning a simulated African savanna and improved bear habitats.

Voters approve aviary, zoo bonds  -  Nov 5, 2008
StandardNet,A first-phase African savanna habitat is also in the plans. The zoo bond also requires the facility to raise $11 million in private funds.

Come To The Hippo Pumpkin Bash At The Woodland Zoo  -  Oct 21, 2008
Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News,Three female hippos live at the zoo’s award-winning African Savanna: 45-year-old Gertie, 30-year-old Water Lily and 9-year-old Guadalupe.

eBay to Ban Ivory Sales to Save Elephants  -  Oct 21, 2008
Daily Green...is so rampant, it's likely that new ivory originates from illegal and cruel poaching that litters the African savanna with rotting carcasses that have

Trooper hurt in chase  -  Oct 30, 2008
Daily Herald,The money would fund an arctic exhibit and part of an African savanna replica. Most of the money for the campaign came from the zoo, including an $80000

Prospect Park Zoo Welcomes New Animal Curator  -  Oct 29, 2008
Brooklyn Daily Eagle,...the San Francisco Zoo, where he managed the zoo’s primate collection, helped open an African Savanna exhibit, and supervised various animal departments.

Madagascar' Roars To Top Of Box Office  -  Nov 9, 2008
CNNMoney.comThe family-friendly sequel to the 2005 film takes up the tale of the former occupants of a New York City zoo, this time in the African savanna,

How to Save Snow Leopards  -  Oct 27, 2008
Mongabay.comJackson: Conservationists in the African Savanna have it so much easier. They can get in their Land Rover and drive to a spot where they know their subject

Wise Elephants Fear Roads  -  Oct 27, 2008
LiveScience.com,By Jeanna Bryner, Senior Writer A forest elephant examines the bones of another elephant that may have been killed by a poacher.

Clerk plans to move polls out of Hogle Zoo  -  27 Sep 2008
Salt Lake Tribune,...feared the location might influence the zoo's request for millions of tax dollars to build a new arctic exhibit, an African savanna and more parking.

The Naturalist  -  27 Sep 2008
The Smart Set,Whereas the rotunda's anonymous bull elephant last raised his trunk over the African savanna more than half a century ago, the real Phoenix still swims in

African Savanna by the numbers  -  Sep 4, 2008
Dallas Morning News,Largest single donation to the zoo in its history, from the Harold Simmons Foundation to help fund a planned 11-acre African Savanna exhibit.

Power to the people: African objects say a lot about politics  -  Sep 22, 2008
Houston Chronicle,But the 160-page catalog accompanying Art and Power in the Central African Savanna, his new traveling exhibition, doesn't seem like enough space to get

A children's project for the zoo  -  Sep 12, 2008
Dallas Morning News,Re: African Savanna gets big donation – $5 million for exhibit is a record; officials say it will speed progress," Sept. 4 news story.

Polls at zoo could invite monkey business  -  Sep 25, 2008
Salt Lake Tribune,...voters will weigh whether the zoo should get tax money to help build an expansive arctic exhibit, a lifelike African savanna and more parking.

Zoo mourns death of 38-year-old female elephant  -  Sep 4, 2008
Inside Toronto,...in her movements around her keepers, aware of the power of her great bulk," said Eric Cole, supervisor of the African Savanna, in a statement.

Zoo confinement  -  Sep 19, 2008
Salt Lake Tribune,The zoo's location at the narrow mouth of Emigration Canyon will never be able to "mimic an African savanna," as suggested by some Hogle Zoo supporters.

Raspberries singer Eric Carmen arrested for DUI  -  Sep 17, 2008
Akron Beacon Journal,Visit exhibits, including the Northern Trek, African Savanna, Waterfowl Lake, Australian Adventure. Frogs, Hogs & Dogs through Sept. 28.

Singled out for wedding humiliation  -  Sep 11, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald,...extended family when, like a startled gazelle stalked by a lion on the African savanna, I am skewered from the pack to sit at a distant singles' table.

Those who knew her will never forget Tequila the elephant  -  Sep 6, 2008
Globe and Mail,..."It was so sudden that I think we're still all in shock," said Eric Cole, supervisor of the zoo's African Savanna section, as workers quietly tended the

Our dietary freedom's at steak  -  Sep 10, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald,About two million years ago our ancestors began to eat red meat on the African savanna, to supplement a vegetarian diet that had become too meagre.

Regional museums will showcase paintings by Winslow Homer and ...  -  Sep 14, 2008
Toledo Blade,...“Art and Power in the Central African Savanna,� will exhibit 60 sculptures whose original purpose was to carry power between the human and spirit worlds.

İzmir counts down to opening of natural life park  -  Aug 28, 2008
Turkish Daily News (subscription),A new 18000-square-meter African savanna, where ostriches, zebras and giraffes will live together, will be created. With the natural water flows,

I Can’t Fly! Birds Lost Their Aerial Abilities Multiple Times  -  Sep 8, 2008
Discover Magazine,Ostriches, however, live on an African savanna full of hungry hunters, so once their flying days were over they evolved sharp claws (and they run like the

Rautzhan: Authors keep your interest with words, not pictures  -  Sep 3, 2008
Port Huron Times Herald,Life is hard on the African savanna. Mogo's mother teaches her warthogs where to find food and water and how to stay safe from the many predators that

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