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Oakland: The little zoo that could - Sep 10, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle,That's how I feel every time I go to the Oakland Zoo. While we debate whether to make the San Francisco Zoo an animal sanctuary, bemoan the outdated Oakland Zoo program nurtures turtles - Sep 11, 2008 Oakland Tribune,By Angela Hill, Oakland Tribune Oakland Zoo lead keeper Margaret Rousser looks at the less than a week old Western Pond Turtles which have been hatching in Baby marsupial has its mother's eyes -- and nose and ears - Sep 26, 2008 Los Angeles Times,Frequently covering animals (and their people) throughout her 15 years at the Times, she's chronicled the Oakland Zoo's attempts to hand-raise a baby Nimitz' the alligator to call Florida - Sep 4, 2008 abc7news.com,He was later taken to the Oakland Zoo. The cage that he was found in was only five feet long - which was just about as long as he was. Is a drop in bird population a sign of biodiversity crisis? - Sep 23, 2008 Los Angeles Times,Frequently covering animals (and their people) throughout her 15 years at the Times, she's chronicled the Oakland Zoo's attempts to hand-raise a baby Western Pond turtles hatching at SSU - Sep 17, 2008 Sonoma State Star,Geist in fact had to call on the Oakland Zoo for help, and Oakland zookeeper Adam Sink said that up to seven zookeepers and a vet came up to help. Grizzlies thriving in Montana, study says - Sep 16, 2008 Los Angeles Times,Frequently covering animals (and their people) throughout her 15 years at the Times, she's chronicled the Oakland Zoo's attempts to hand-raise a baby Golf, pumpkins, quilts and Viva Las Vegas - Sep 17, 2008 Tri-Valley Herald,There will also be a silent auction featuring a huge assortment of prizes from sports memorabilia, wines, tickets to Sharks games, Oakland Zoo, Tale of 'Christian the lion' headed to Hollywood - Sep 10, 2008 Los Angeles Times,Frequently covering animals (and their people) throughout her 15 years at the Times, she's chronicled the Oakland Zoo's attempts to hand-raise a baby 'Grizzly Man Diaries' airs tonight - Aug 29, 2008 Los Angeles Times,Frequently covering animals (and their people) throughout her 15 years at the Times, she's chronicled the Oakland Zoo's attempts to hand-raise a baby Pesticides are killing West Coast salmon - 15 Aug 2008 Los Angeles Times,Frequently covering animals (and their people) throughout her 15 years at the Times, she's chronicled the Oakland Zoo's attempts to hand-raise a baby Zoo vote a test run for mandate on new taxes in Wayne County - Aug 3, 2008 Detroit Free Press,BY JOHN WISELY • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • August 3, 2008 It also could provide the first real test of a voter-approved charter amendment in Wayne County Oakland elephants are pampered - Jul 21, 2008 Examiner.comThe Oakland Zoo may be small, but there are those who love her – and her elephants too. According to Yahoo Pulse, Oakland has landed among the top-rated A PATCHWORK OF BAY AREA PARTIES & PERSONALITIES - Jul 20, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle,The Oakland Zoo's 16th annual Walk in the Wild escapade benefited the zoo's conservation, education and animal enrichment programs. Tortoises find refuge at Castro Valley home - Aug 9, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle,...are such long-lived animals it's very, very difficult to find good, long-term homes for them," said Colleen Kinzley, general curator at the Oakland Zoo. Zoo millage proposal would create authority - Jul 31, 2008 Milford Times,By Sue Buck • GANNETT NEWS SERVICE • July 31, 2008 Residents in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties will decide Tuesday, Aug. 5, whether to help finance the Oakland coffeehouse with a family touch - Aug 6, 2008 Oakland Tribune,Also near the Interstate 580 entrance toward the Oakland Zoo, the business, which opened its doors less than a month ago, has caught the eye of many drivers PETA to Obama: wanting a purebred dog is elitist - Jul 29, 2008 Los Angeles Times,Frequently covering animals (and their people) throughout her 15 years at the Times, she's chronicled the Oakland Zoo's attempts to hand-raise a baby Mausoleum to rock with sounds of jazz - Jul 17, 2008 San Jose Mercury News,...season passes to the Oakland Zoo, handmade jewelry, CDs and theater tickets are all up for grabs in the auction, currently running online. Tuesday, Jul 29th - Jul 29, 2008 San Francisco Bay Guardian,And her home is shifting: after living near the Oakland zoo for eight years in an old rustic cottage "that time forgot," as she describes it, Missouri teen mauled in tiger attack - Aug 5, 2008 Los Angeles Times,Frequently covering animals (and their people) throughout her 15 years at the Times, she's chronicled the Oakland Zoo's attempts to hand-raise a baby Rachael Ray launches line of dog foods - Jul 30, 2008 Los Angeles Times,Frequently covering animals (and their people) throughout her 15 years at the Times, she's chronicled the Oakland Zoo's attempts to hand-raise a baby Puppy kills 2-month-old boy - Jul 29, 2008 Los Angeles Times,Frequently covering animals (and their people) throughout her 15 years at the Times, she's chronicled the Oakland Zoo's attempts to hand-raise a baby An exciting time for the Oakland Zoo - Apr 13, 2008 Alameda Times-Star,TO CLARIFY the issues surrounding the planned expansion of the Oakland Zoo, it will be helpful to understand the history of the approval process, Oakland Zoo giraffe gets new coat, new lease on life - Apr 5, 2008 The Argus,...long, tall Tiki modeled her form-fitting, custom-made coat Friday morning at the Oakland Zoo, posing for the paparazzi like a pro. OAKLAND: BABY GIRAFFE JOINS OAKLAND ZOO'S ANIMAL FAMILY - Apr 8, 2008 CBS 5,A 1-year-old giraffe named Mabusu, which means "Kisses" in Swahili, has joined the Oakland Zoo's animal family and is already known for his love of peanut Party with Oz at the Uptown Tonight - Apr 22, 2008 NovoMetro,This Oz is is the Oakland Zoo Krew — and it has more to do with skates and art than with a zoo. It’s an events and art company created by Clean Skateshop’s Broke Guy Day Care Vol. 18: Bargain Birthday Parties - Apr 11, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle,A couple other ideas: The Oakland Zoo charges reasonable prices for birthdays, starting at $175 for 40 people -- with more expensive (yet still cheaper than 40 And Extra, Extra Long - Apr 4, 2008 Weekend America,The giraffe exhibit at the Oakland Zoo strives for a certain authenticity. The yard includes gazelles, a griffin vulture and several loud Egyptian geese A room with a view - Apr 22, 2008 Los Angeles Times,She chronicled the Oakland Zoo's attempts to hand-raise a baby African elephant and followed the Los Angeles Zoo's LA-born gorilla, Caesar, on his trek to a Something somewhere in Oakland should bear Bill Patterson's name - Apr 24, 2008 Alameda Times-Star,He was in charge of the Oakland Zoo, Lake Merritt, Children's Fairyland and the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center. That's not all. 22nd annual Secret Gardens Tour gives visitors peek around garden ... - Apr 4, 2008 Inside Bay Area,...(Laura A. Oda/The Oakland Tribune) Stroll around the garden Sherry Merciari crafted on a one-acre slice of property in the hills near the Oakland Zoo and SF Zoo's big cats meet people again - 22 Feb 2008 San Francisco Chronicle,..."We were actually considering going to the Oakland Zoo, but it's closer for us to come here. It's a little unnerving. I'm glad to see they've taken The Sun Shines Everywhere - 22 Feb 2008 Alameda Sun,The orphanage was the last stop of their two-week African safari in October with a group from the Oakland Zoo, where Jennifer is a docent and part of the Tiger wall higher at Oakland Zoo - Feb 16, 2008 The Argus,By Alex Molloy, STAFF WRITER OAKLAND — Visitors to the Oakland Zoo this weekend will find two new changes — a new exhibit and a taller fence around the Bay and beyond Clear your head. Gape at the view. Get some ... - Feb 13, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle,Oakland Zoo, Knowland Park, 9777 Golf Links Rd., Oakland. (510) 632-9525. www.oaklandzoo.org. EB Naturalist guided whale watching day-cruises on Sat. American Rhododendron Society - Feb 19, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle,Meet at Oakland Zoo, Education Building, 977 Golf Links Rd., Oakland. (510) 665-3508. www.thewatershedproject.org. Auction, consignment sale, demonstration For the OLD BONES creaking! - Feb 14, 2008 Deccan Herald,At the Oakland zoo, California, the caretakers noticed that the lanky ‘grandma’ was having difficulty with her movements and set out to provide her some Giraffe's Jacket a Creature Comfort - Feb 2, 2008 The Associated PressSo workers at the Oakland Zoo are having a custom-fit coat made to keep the giraffe cozy this winter. At age 18, venerable for giraffes, Tiki is subject to Rock star treatment for fussy giraffe - Feb 4, 2008 LIVENEWS.com.au,The Oakland Zoo has found a horse blanket designer to design a winter coat for Tiki the giraffe, she’s 18 and doesn’t like the Bay area winters. The Latest In Giraffe Fashion - Feb 4, 2008 ShortNews.com,Tiki, a 13 foot tall, 18 year old female giraffe at the Oakland Zoo, is feeling her age and gets cold. To help keep her warm, zoo contacted a San Francisco Global warming offers little by way of hope - Feb 6, 2008 Lahontan Valley News,Her rheumatism makes this extra cold winter at the Oakland Zoo nearly intolerable. In response to her plight, zookeepers devised a special coat for Tiki. Oakland Explorer: Creek Tales - Feb 14, 2008 NovoMetro,As it drops to San Leandro Bay, it flows under Golf Links Road and cuts across the north side of the Oakland Zoo before passing through Arroyo Viejo Park. Sexy 'Woo at the Zoo' tour has grown over 19 years - Feb 14, 2008 Inside Bay Area,From New York's Central Park Zoo's Jungle Love to the Oakland Zoo's Animal Amore, others have chased the tail of Tollini's original idea. Tailor sticks neck out for giraffe in winter - Jan 27, 2008 Inside Bay Area,Attractive giraffe-wear is soon to be the latest thing for the common camelopardalis reticulata at the Oakland Zoo, although there's nothing common about 6 to 10 inches of snow expected today as storm pushes through - Feb 1, 2008 Detroit Free Press,By JOHN WISELY Metro Detroit is bracing for another blast of winter today, with forecasters predicting between 6 to 10 inches of snow. CHOCOHOLICS LOVE WHAT THEY DID WITH THIS ROOM - Feb 8, 2008 Kentucky.com,So workers at the Oakland Zoo in Oakland, Calif., are having a custom-fit coat made to keep the giraffe cozy this winter. At age 18, Tiki is venerable for Charlie Pine's War - Feb 11, 2008 NovoMetro,...ally of Ignacio de la Fuente, and whose primary political ambition for the past couple of years has been a quest to secure pandas for the Oakland Zoo. Groundhogs snub Golden State, opt for Punxsutawney fame - Feb 5, 2008 Alameda Times-Star,We first checked the Oakland Zoo. There was nothing resembling a groundhog, but zoo officials kindly offered to dress another species of animal up in a Chandler, Coburn lead Rutgers' 77-64 upset of No. 13 Pittsburgh - Jan 26, 2008 San Diego Union Tribune,The loss was only the eighth in Pitt's 100 games at the Petersen Events Center, where the student body – known as the Oakland Zoo – rims the court and Berkeley This Week - Jan 25, 2008 Berkeley Daily Planet,35. www.habitot.org Scalky Sleepers Learn how scales help animals weather the cold at 10:30 am at the Oakland Zoo, 9777 Golf Links Rd. Cost is $7.50-$10. House of Horrors - Feb 7, 2008 West Virginia University Mountaineers,Sophomore Joe Mazzulla got his first whiff of the Oakland Zoo last year as a freshman. “I remember one time during shoot around the ball rolled over to the Can Punxsutawney Phil Predict The Elections? - Feb 3, 2008 Tampa Tribune,At the Oakland Zoo, Tiki, the 18-year-old giraffe is suffering through the cold winter weather. For a giraffe, 18 is getting up there in years, About Raphielle Johnson - Jan 30, 2008 CollegeHoopsnet.comThe more impressive effort has to be Saturday’s win in front of the “Oakland Zoo�, one in which five Scarlet Knights reached double figures, Caution: "Pitt" -fall Ahead - Jan 26, 2008 Bleacher Report,The loss sent the State University of New Jersey home with a renewed sense of hope in the Big East, and sent the Oakland Zoo sulking toward the exits for Encinal High Freshman to Compete for CA Teen Title - Jan 24, 2008 Alameda Sun,Her community service efforts include sponsoring a child in Tanzania through WorldVision, and creating enrichment projects for the Oakland Zoo animals. Absent bulbs keep ZooLights dark Oakland Zoo's light show canceled ... - Nov 24, 2007 Inside Bay Area,By Abbie Swanson, CORRESPONDENT OAKLAND — Even turned off, they would have shimmered "just like a diamond," said one Oakland Zoo official, but too few of Oakland Zoo elephants treated to giant pumpkin - Nov 20, 2007 Tri-Valley Herald,Forget those puny, bite-sized, run-of-the-patch pumpkins the elephants usually get for special snacks at the Oakland Zoo. (The meerkats can have those. Peter Liebowitz, CV volunteer, dies at 61 - Nov 29, 2007 Inside Bay Area,Donations to the Center for the Arts, PO Box 2777, Castro Valley, 94546, or the Oakland Zoo Development Office, 9777 Golf Links Road, Oakland, 94605, Rare bears' mating efforts fail to produce cubs, so science steps in - Nov 7, 2007 Jackson Hole Star-Tribune,For whatever reason, they've had sex hundreds of times at the Oakland Zoo but have never produced offspring. They're not the only ones going through the December Offers Its Own Share of Madness - Nov 28, 2007 New York Sun,Still, we could be looking at a matchup of 10–0 teams at Pitt, where you know the Oakland Zoo will try to outcrazy the Cameron Crazies. A's stepped up for numerous charities - Nov 21, 2007 OaklandAthletics.comSince 1986, The Men's Wearhouse and George Zimmer have donated more than $1 million to the Oakland Zoo through the A's Double Play program. Blair helping hometown Panthers win - Nov 15, 2007 FOXSports.comThe highly-energetic Blair, who has dropped 28 pounds since fall classes started, began developing a cult following among the Oakland Zoo student section at TCP President & CEO Ellis Yan Delivers Address at The United ... - Nov 12, 2007 dBusinessNews Cleveland (press release),In Oakland, CA we are greening the city with energy efficient lighting projects, such as the Oakland zoo and the historic theater district. Northern California Athletes of the Week - Nov 2, 2007 CalHiSports.com (subscription),First, however, we head to the Oakland hills where the elephants at the neighboring Oakland Zoo could be heard trumpeting the arrival of the caravan Tougher dog laws are urged - Nov 15, 2007 Knoxville News Sentinel,Byrne went to work in animal control in January after working at the Oakland Zoo in California. She returned to the Sam Lee Road trailer Friday, Oakland A's Return Home to Face Chicago White Sox, Kansas City ... - Aug 15, 2007 All American Patriots (press release),The A's Kids Club is sponsored by the Oakland Zoo and Round Table Pizza. Oakland A's Baseball Basics: An A's player will host a pre-game clinic for a OVERNIGHT FUN IN THE BAY AREA - Jul 22, 2007 San Jose Mercury News,The Oakland Zoo offers "Sundown Safaris" for ages 3 and up, plus "Bedtime with the Beasts" (youth groups). $110 per person. www.oaklandzoo.org. Berkeley This Week - Jul 24, 2007 Berkeley Daily Planet,Family Sundown Safari at 5 pm at the Oakland Zoo. A hands-on program for children 3 and up to explore the Valley Children’s Zoo. 'Oldest Rookie' adds to his resume - Aug 1, 2007 Contra Costa Times,He became a docent for the Oakland Zoo and was enjoying himself, when an unexpected call from a contact convinced him that he should not be letting all [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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