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Little Rock ZooArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml-list.htmlToday's THVMonday night the city of Little Rock voted to sell the stadium to UAMS and the Little Rock Zoo will get about 3 acres for expansion. Plan for future of Ray Winder Field site to be discussed by Little ... - Jul 27, 2009 KFSMLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A proposal for the future of Ray Winder Field would divide the parcel so the state's only medical school and the Little Rock Zoo War Memorial: A One-Day Lambeau South? - Jul 28, 2009 ArkansasSports360.com...the stadium commission will surrender its easement on a roughly 3-acre parking lot adjacent to the Little Rock Zoo that will be used for much-needed zoo This Weekend in Little Rock - Jul 22, 2009 About - Cities & TownsYou can have breakfast with the Lorikeets Saturday at the Little Rock Zoo starting at 8:00 am Reservations are required. Sunday has the Heifer Moo-Vie: "The Minimum wage increase a mixed bag - Jul 12, 2009 Arkansas Democrat GazetteRashauna Thrower, 19, of Little Rock, a college student who's making $7.25 an hour doing data entry and other tasks at the Little Rock Zoo this summer, Amanda Galiano - Jul 17, 2009 About - Cities & TownsAmanda has also volunteered for animal organizations, including the Little Rock Zoo. She is currently president of their education volunteer program. Take a while to bake it - Jul 22, 2009 Arkansas TimesDirector Brad Cazort has proposed such a tax in the past. His favorite park: The Little Rock Zoo, which will get $1.6 million from the bond issue for parks. Free Admission at The Little Rock Zoo - Mar 7, 2009 KATVAdmission was free all day Saturday at the Little Rock Zoo thanks to a special donation from Coleman Diary. It was a record turnout with nearly 27000 people Arkansas Business' 25 Women Leaders (25th Anniversary) - Mar 20, 2009 Arkansas Business OnlineFish & Wildlife Foundation board, championed causes from the Little Rock Zoo to the state's forests and is in the Arkansas Outdoor Hall of fame. 2008 NCA Convention Visits Memphis, St. Louis, Little Rock, and More - Mar 4, 2009 Carousel News & TraderThe last carousel we saw, and one of the biggest surprises, was the Over the Jumps Herschell Spillman machine, built around 1924, at the Little Rock Zoo. Save the park - Mar 18, 2009 Arkansas Times...a plan submitted by friends of the Little Rock Zoo to use the adjacent ballpark property for a major expansion, including an elephant breeding program. Sweet Deal - Mar 11, 2009 Arkansas TimesThere'd be no Little Rock Zoo. No Museum of Fine Arts — the predecessor of the Arkansas Arts Center. Many of the buildings erected under federal work THE WEEKEND TEN - Mar 5, 2009 Arkansas Online (subscription)By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact) Calling all party animals: The Little Rock Zoo will be open free to all visitors 9 am-5 pm Saturday during Chimp attack revives area man's nightmare - 21 Feb 2009 St. Louis Post-Dispatch,She said her and her husband made the "heartbreaking decision" last October to give the primates to the Little Rock Zoo. The Harrisons spent $20000 trying Little Rock Reopens Ray Winder Options - Feb 18, 2009 KATV,The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the Little Rock Zoo were each disqualified because they publicly discussed financial aspect of their Little Rock Zoo Expansions - Feb 1, 2009 MSNBCOn the heels of a disappointing decision for the Little Rock Zoo an agency desperate to expand. Could little rock's lions and tigers and bears be headed for City Leaders React to Attorney's Decision on Ray Winder Field ... - Feb 13, 2009 KATV,The Ray Winder Foundation, the Little Rock Zoo and UAMS all submitted bids, that were reviewed by a volunteer committee. In January, that committee Zoo Hedgehog Counters Phil, Predicts Early Spring - Feb 2, 2009 Today's THV,In a shocking contrary prediction, the Little Rock Zoo's hedgehog, Mr. Prickles, predicted an early end to winter Monday and the quick arrival of spring. Ray Winder to UAMS? - Jan 30, 2009 KARK,Three groups that want Ray Winder made pitches to a committee; the Little Rock Zoo, the Ray Winder Foundation and UAMS. After all three presentations, And here comes the pitch .... - Feb 9, 2009 Arkansas Times,...the advisory panel to recommend that the city’s share of the property be used for two other worthwhile causes, youth baseball and the Little Rock Zoo. Sloth Bears Awaiting Completion of New Home at Zoo - Feb 13, 2009 LocalNews8.com,By Aman Chabra, Local News 8 Reporter IDAHO FALLS - The two sloth bears that arrived last fall from the Little Rock Zoo have settled into their temporary Boldly backward - Feb 4, 2009 Arkansas Times,One would give the property to a War Memorial Park neighbor, the Little Rock Zoo, providing the otherwise landlocked zoo with room for expansion and Sloth Bears Await Completion of New Home - Feb 10, 2009 KPVI-TV,With the construction of a bear exhibit at the Tautphaus Park Zoo, the two sloth bears that arrived last fall from the Little Rock Zoo have had to settle Male gorilla dies at Little Rock Zoo - Nov 3, 2008 WXVT,AP - November 3, 2008 3:54 PM ET LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - JJ, a male silverback western lowland gorilla at the Little Rock Zoo, has died at the age of 21 of What's New at the Zoo: New Male Lion - Nov 13, 2008 About - Cities & Towns,There's a new inhabitant at the Little Rock Zoo this month: a male lion named Bakari. He is still a bit shy, but he sometimes has access to the outside 1:30 pm - Boo at the Zoo Starts Friday in Little Rock - Oct 21, 2008 KARK,The Little Rock Zoo is getting set to host its 17th annual "Boo at the Zoo" starting on Friday. The event that attracts trick’r’treaters dressed as Zoo gorilla dies - Nov 3, 2008 Arkansas Times,The Little Rock Zoo's silverback gorilla, Jungle Jack, died Sunday. He had earlier been diagnosed with congestive heart failure. The Little Rock Zoo is sad Aloft Brings the New TWISTSM Travel to Little Rock, Arkansas - Oct 30, 2008 The FINANCIAL,Also nearby are The Clinton Presidential Library, Alltel Arena and the Little Rock Zoo, as well as the corporate headquarters of Alltel and Dillard’s Fright night’s dead ahead - Oct 31, 2008 Arkansas Online (subscription),Boo at the Zoo, 6-9 pm today at the Little Rock Zoo. Rides, games and treats, “Creatures of the Night� program, Haunted House and not-so-haunted Little Treats Without Tricks - Oct 31, 2008 KATV,Across town at the Little Rock Zoo, hundreds of people enjoyed boo at the zoo, an annual event where kids can safely trick or treat, a comforting thought to 2:15 pm - Jack Hanna Coming to LR for Zoo's Halloween Event - Oct 29, 2008 KARK,Annual BOO AT THE ZOO Halloween festival at 8 pm at the Little Rock Zoo this Friday, October 31 to sign autographs and copies of his children’s books. OTUS THE HEAD CAT : Critter trackers stand to make mint if they ... - Nov 15, 2008 Arkansas Democrat Gazette,...artists can paint from a live specimen ) and $ 12, 500 from the Little Rock Zoo as a companion exhibit to its penguin display that’s under construction. 3:30 pm - January Event to Honor Bald Eagles - Nov 10, 2008 KARK,Also, see birds up close and personal as local falconers and bird handlers from the Little Rock Zoo show them off within arms reach. Zoodles of fun for Halloween - Oct 23, 2008 Canoe.ca,The Little Rock Zoo bills its Boo at the Zoo as Arkansas' largest Halloween festival, drawing about 30000 people over eight days. Some zoos use Halloween to Religious or historical figure - Oct 23, 2008 KARK,Log In The Little Rock Zoo’s Boo at the Zoo offers trick-or-treating in a safe environment as well as a variety of fun Halloween activities such as the Fun Tarantula in the house - Nov 1, 2008 Baxter Bulletin,Cliff Shelby of Rea Valley was 10 when he visited the Reptile House at the Little Rock Zoo and leaned his face down close to peek through the wire mesh on Iron Mountain Festival is Saturday - Oct 22, 2008 Walnut Ridge Times Dispatch,...that will be returning this year are the rock wall sponsored by the National Guard, the Arkansas Game and Fish aquarium and the Little Rock Zoo animals. PAPER TRAILS: Jungle Jack swings into Little Rock - Oct 27, 2008 Arkansas Online (subscription),...weeknightly call-in talk show Unreliable Sources as it is broadcast at 10 pm from the Little Rock Zoo’s Civitan Amphitheater on Halloween night. Little Rock Zoo's Oldest Chimp Dies - Sep 19, 2008 Today's THV,Jodie came to the Little Rock Zoo in 1970 from Vanderbilt University. Jodie's actual birth date is not known and is only an estimate because she was Education at the Zoo - Sep 23, 2008 Arkansas Times,An item yesterday about the Little Rock Zoo prompted a question from a reader about the status of the Zoo's education program and a long-planned veldt Admission’s free Saturday at LR Zoo - Sep 5, 2008 Arkansas Democrat Gazette,Admission to the Little Rock Zoo is free this Saturday to celebrate War Memorial’s 60 th anniversary and the Arkansas Razorbacks’ first game at War Memorial Monterey Bay Aquarium shares new baby otter with visitors - Sep 2, 2008 The Salinas Californian,Kamili and Kipenzi will eventually find a home at the Little Rock Zoo in Arkansas. Aquarium staff first introduced Neema and Ziwa to their Wild About Otters Planning underway for Iron Mountain Festival - Sep 3, 2008 Walnut Ridge Times Dispatch,...that will be returning this year are the rock wall sponsored by the National Guard, the Arkansas Game and Fish aquarium and the Little Rock Zoo animals. Old chimp at LR Zoo dies at age 50 - Sep 19, 2008 WREG,AP - September 19, 2008 1:24 PM ET LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A chimpanzee from 1 of the last generations of wild-caught apes died at the Little Rock Zoo Admission’s free Saturday at LR Zoo - Sep 5, 2008 Arkansas Online (subscription),By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact) Admission to the Little Rock Zoo is free this Saturday to celebrate War Memorial’s 60th anniversary and the 10:00 am - LR Zoo Hires Caretaker for Hoof Stock - Aug 12, 2008 KARK,The Little Rock Zoo is proud to announce that Joseph Darcangelo has been hired as the new curator of hoof stock. As the Zoo’s new hoof stock curator, Free LR Zoo admission for kids through Labor Day - Jul 22, 2008 WREG,AP - July 22, 2008 10:14 AM ET LITTLE ROCK (AP) - The Little Rock Zoo will offer free admission to children under 12 through Labor Day, Full Story - Jul 22, 2008 KARK,...“The Little Rock Zoo is a great place for families and we’re happy to offer this promotion to make the Zoo a favorite ‘staycation’ summer destination. Editor’s choice - Jul 16, 2008 Arkansas Times,BEST SNAKE HANDLER: The Little Rock Zoo's Randal Berry, the guy who had to take care of those poisonous snakes mysteriously shipped into Little Rock last Zookeeper loses fingertip while feeding new rhino - Jul 20, 2008 Arkansas Democrat Gazette,BY JIM BROOKS A keeper at the Little Rock Zoo required surgery Saturday after the zoo’s new black rhinoceros, Naivasha, bit the tip of the keeper’s finger See and be seen - Jul 24, 2008 Arkansas Online,Democrat-Gazette photographer Benjamin Krain went looking for the blinks, glances and stares that animals give back at the Little Rock Zoo. Tautphaus Park Zoo Will Get Asian Sloth Bears - Jul 23, 2008 KPVI-TV,The two bears are brothers that were born in 2006 at the Little Rock Zoo. They will arrive in Idaho Falls this fall and the display will be finished by Delivery surprise at Knoxville Zoo - Jul 21, 2008 WBIR-TV,She came to Knoxville in 2005 from the Little Rock Zoo, while George's father, Jimbo, arrived in 2006 from the Cleveland Metro Parks Zoo. OTUS THE HEAD CAT : Elusive pet-snatching coyote seen on busy ... - Jul 19, 2008 Arkansas Democrat Gazette,Little Rock Zoo officials note that coyotes normally dine on small mammals such as rabbits and mice. They’ll chow down on food left in bowls for outdoor PHOTO IN THE NEWS: "Conjoined" Birds Puzzle Experts - Jul 23, 2008 National Geographic,X-rays of the bodies taken at the Little Rock Zoo did not show shared internal organs or skeletal elements, which are typically present in conjoined twins. Heat’s on for aid givers as 100-degree days near - Jul 29, 2008 Arkansas Democrat Gazette,At the Little Rock Zoo, employees have prepared animals, too, for the heat’s onslaught. Workers have frozen food treats in large blocks of ice for tigers, Zookeeper, bitten while feeding rhino, loses fingertip - Jul 20, 2008 Arkansas Online,By Jim Brooks (Contact) A keeper at the Little Rock Zoo required surgery Saturday after the zoo’s new black rhinoceros, Naivasha, bit the tip of the [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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