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Operation fails to save Yeki the white rhino - Sep 17, 2008 Toronto Star,A white rhinoceros answering to "Yeki" has died after an awkward surgical procedure at the Toronto Zoo. Suffering extreme constipation, the two-tonne animal LaSalle Resident Shoots the Big Five animals in Kenya - Sep 21, 2008 Montréal Express,The white rhinoceros are classified as a vulnerable species and the black rhinoceros are endangered. We drove to the Ngulia Rhinoceros Sanctuary near West White Rhino Dies At Toronto Zoo - Sep 16, 2008 CityNews,Despite extensive steps to save a white rhinoceros named Yeki, including a complicated 10-hour surgery and constant monitoring, the animal died earlier this Colchester: white rhinos head for home, thanks to our zoo - Sep 1, 2008 The Gazette,By James Calnan » WHITE rhinoceros are set to be released into the South African wild – helped by staff at Colchester Zoo. Since 2004, the zoo and Action Zoo Hasn't Been Supplying Animal Inventory, City Says - Sep 16, 2008 Tampa Tribune,Salisbury and Safari Wild agreed to house and care for three rare white rhinoceros. Two of the animals are female and both are believed pregnant. Harold Strachan's Last Word - Aug 29, 2008 Noseweek,...who does teacup readings for that famed mystical personage the Hon Doc Ian Palaver Saviour of the White Rhinoceros, who sends an armed karate driver to Spotlight on wildlife - Sep 6, 2008 Times of India,...a river tern in flight at Ranganathittu bird sanctuary, African white rhinoceros at lake Nakuru, Kenya, or the African elephants at Zimbabwe. Square meals - Aug 31, 2008 Malaysia Star,So if an elephant weighs between 3000kg and 5000kg, a hippopotamus 1500kg to 1800kg, and a white rhinoceros 2200kg, you do the maths. PETA slams zoo’s upgrade plans - Sep 18, 2008 Dubbo Daily Liberal,Additional works include exhibit upgrades and improvements for endangered African Wild Dogs, White Rhinoceros, Siamang Ape, Eland and Giraffe. Zoo's Rhino Deal With Private Park Concerns Tampa Mayor - Sep 15, 2008 Tampa Tribune,An 8 On Your Side investigation learned three white rhinoceros were among the animals housed this year at Safari Wild. Two of the animals are female and Impending birth has everyone excited - Jul 30, 2008 Dubbo Daily Liberal,Aluka the Southern White Rhinoceros was camera shy at Taronga Western Plains Zoo yesterday when a media contingent turned out to report on her pregnancy. Win a family pass to meet Taronga Western Plains Zoo’s newest - Jul 17, 2008 Yass Tribune,The healthy Southern White Rhinoceros calf was born on Thursday April 10 and is now ready to meet the public. NSW Environment Minister Verity Firth has seen Cuba to send animals to depleted Venezuelan zoos - Aug 11, 2008 Reuters UK,A white rhinoceros may be sent later, Escobar said. The animals are being evaluated for their fitness for the trip, but Escobar said Cuba has a reputation Will America pay for extinct rhinos? - Aug 10, 2008 Sunday Vision,...“Roosevelt seeks white rhinoceros�, a headline in The New York Times screamed on January 9, 1910. “Theodore Roosevelt and members of his expedition arrived Etosha Mountain Lodge - Mountain - Aug 4, 2008 Travel News Namibia,He brought in new blood for the white rhinoceros population, sable and waterbuck. These add to the black rhino the Government allocated to them as Animals live out golden years at zoo - Jul 22, 2008 Northeast Ledger,Topping the chimp on the age scale are several animals, like a 34-year-old black bear, a 38-year-old Southern White rhinoceros and a 36-year-old American Scots scientists to save one of rarest animals on the planet - Apr 16, 2008 Scotsman,By JENNY HAWORTH WITH only 13 of the creatures left struggling to survive on the plains of the Congo, the northern white rhinoceros is one of the most Horny problem for Asians - Apr 14, 2008 Dispatch Online,THIEVES have made off with two “priceless� horns from a mounted white rhinoceros at the Iziko South African Museum in Cape Town. Zoo unveils brand new Africa plains - Apr 4, 2008 News 14 Carolina,It's an $8.5 million expansion and improvement project for the zoo's African Elephant and Southern White Rhinoceros. ASHEBORO -- It took the North Carolina Rhino horns stolen from museum - Apr 14, 2008 The Times,Thieves have made off with two "priceless" horns from a mounted white rhinoceros at the Iziko South African Museum in Cape Town. The theft, the latest in a Uniquely refreshing - Mar 27, 2008 Telegraph.co.uk,...threatened species successfully born and bred in the zoo, such as the douc langur, white rhinoceros, proboscis monkey, manatee and of course, orangutan. Poison rhino horns poached - Apr 14, 2008 Independent Online,By Natasha Joseph Thieves who broke into the Iziko South Africa Museum during the weekend and made off with "priceless" white rhinoceros horns are risking Powder from stolen rhino horn may prove deadly - Apr 22, 2008 Xinhua,...powder made from a horn stolen in a daylight robbery from a 120-year-old stuffed white rhinoceros in a South Africa museum may experience death instead. Horn robbers could go stiff - Apr 15, 2008 Citizen,Bredenkamp explained how thieves stole two rhino horns from the museum’s white rhinoceros in a “carefully planned� operation on Saturday night. Corzine aide says he didn't take gifts - Apr 8, 2008 NorthJersey.com,..."What was the giant white rhinoceros in the room?" asked the prosecutor. Inclan replied that neither he nor the mayor mentioned the envelopes from Rogers. Written by San Diego Zoo - Mar 28, 2008 Imperial Valley News,He now shares a 60-acre exhibit with four other giraffe as well as white rhinoceros, gemsbok, African buffalo and more. The best way to view Basel, Peggy, Start your own group for dads - Feb 18, 2008 Toronto Star,It's like trying to find a white rhinoceros. The supposition is that it's not manly to be vulnerable. But based on my own experience as a volunteer mentor Uganda: The source of the White Nile - Feb 5, 2008 Today's Zaman,One of our first goals is to try and catch sight of the rare white rhinoceros, of which there are said to be only 61 left in the world. They don’t do frenetic here - Jan 25, 2008 Financial Times,Orana Wildlife Park, not far from the airport, offers visitors a ride on a special platform for a lion feed and the chance to meet a white rhinoceros face Hunting the Luxury Man in Shenzhen - Jan 23, 2008 Asia Sentinel,Those who pay 500000 yuan, would be able to bring a dead Southern White Rhinoceros from South Africa (one of 11000 left in the world, though its cousin, Outside the Circle - 01 Dec 2007 Case Western Reserve University Observer,Brigham Young University is facing criticism after asking a benefactor to obtain a permit in South Africa to shoot a rare white rhinoceros. White rhino to join the exhibit - Nov 14, 2007 Salt Lake Tribune,By Brian Maffly Fred Morris, of Draper, shot this white rhinoceros in April 2006 under a conservation permit to hunt in South Africa's Mkuze National Park. byu's white rhino acquisition stirs storm of criticism - Nov 19, 2007 Salt Lake Tribune,...joined a chorus of voices denouncing Brigham Young University's acquisition of a white rhinoceros skin through a recent hunting expedition to Africa. Thrill kill: Museum, or hall of shame? - Nov 20, 2007 Salt Lake Tribune,Officials at the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum at Brigham Young University got the southern white rhinoceros they were looking for. White Rhino Exhibit Comes to Bean Museum - Nov 20, 2007 BYU Newsnet,Students and visitors can watch a taxidermy specialist carve and stretch the skin of a southern white rhinoceros at the Monte L. Bean Museum. Hunter donations - Nov 26, 2007 Salt Lake Tribune,Pertaining to the Fred Morris article and his white rhinoceros hunt, The Tribune editorial board wrote that Morris is "a trophy hunter, not an ethical The Politically Incorrect Guide to Hunting - Nov 28, 2007 American Thinker,Hunting has even saved African wildlife species such as white rhinoceros and blue wildebeest. Hunting helps wildlife because it creates a constituency to BYU taxidermist 'going public' in crafting white rhino display - Nov 12, 2007 Deseret News,...several days crafting a life-size southern white rhinoceros for public observation at byu's Monte L. Bean Museum just southeast of the Marriott Center. BYU: Killing for conservation - Nov 19, 2007 The Daily Utah Chronicle,Bean Life Science Museum commissioned Morris to travel deep into South Africa's Mkuze National Park to bag them a big 'un -- a 3-ton white rhinoceros. Rare rhino shot for conservation education - Nov 14, 2007 United Press International14 (UPI) -- In an ironic twist, a rare white rhinoceros was hunted in Africa for the sake of educating the US public about endangered species. Here comes Cabela’s - New outdoors store opens in Lacey - Nov 15, 2007 TheNewsTribune.com (subscription),In the Africa diorama, there are mounts of a white rhinoceros, Burchell’s zebra, Cape buffalo, leopard and elephant. Some of the mounts are purchased; Good Hunting --- An Interview - Nov 12, 2007 Human Events,Internationally, hunting has literally saved the white rhinoceros and lots of other species, because suddenly it gives the private landowner an incentive to Brigham Young U. Criticized for Seeking Trophy Animals for Museum - Nov 20, 2007 Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)Now Brigham Young University is being criticized for acquiring a white rhinoceros hide from a hunter for its Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, according to Lulu the Rhino Is Pregnant Again - Oct 8, 2007 Washington Post,An anesthesia dart is shot at 'Lulu', the Budapest Zoo's southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum), before a team of experts from Austria, Day in pictures - Oct 8, 2007 BBC News,Lulu, Budapest Zoo's southern white rhinoceros, is anaesthetised so experts can scan her unborn calf. Police guard the Russian Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft that Good hunting - Oct 27, 2007 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,Internationally, hunting has literally saved the white rhinoceros and lots of other species, because suddenly it gives the private landowner an incentive to Houston Zoo Loses Bu The White Rhinoceros - Aug 19, 2007 Post Chronicle...by Staff Bu, a Southern white rhinoceros, was 39, The Houston Chronicle reported. He had been living at the zoo since 1971 when he and his companion, Save the Rhino - Aug 8, 2007 ABC Regional Online,Despite the benefits of any future success, time might be up for the Northern White Rhinoceros. Dr. Portas says there are now only 4 individuals left in the High-tech egg hunt in race to save the rhino - Jul 27, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald,..."For the northern white rhinoceros, this technology is the only way to save the species. It's a race against time." The crucial step is if the rhino eggs Future zoo vets learn from a wild bunch - Aug 5, 2007 Gainesville Sun,The white rhinoceros, an endangered creature from South Africa, bowed its large horn and allowed Atkins to touch him. This is closer than most human beings Devilish Support from Suzuki - Jul 30, 2007 AutoWeb,Healesville Sanctuary’s will have Tasmanian Devil imagery, and Werribee’s vehicle will display images of the White Rhinoceros, close relations of the Black The heat, it's beastly - Aug 12, 2007 Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription),Hollywild Animal Park's white rhinoceros, Tank, gleefully tossed his head as Ned Barrett cooled him off by spraying him liberally with a hose. Up close and animal - Aug 7, 2007 Waterbury Republican American,White rhinoceros' covered in mud — they roll in it to keep cool and ward off parasites — similarly attract many onlookers, although the most exciting thing Driving a devil of - Aug 8, 2007 Werribee, Hoppers Crossing Star,Mr Devers said the Healesville Sanctuary’s car had Tasmanian devil imagery and the vehicle at Werribee Open Range Zoo has pictures of the white rhinoceros BRITISH troops shot dead an endangered white rhinoceros after it ... Nov 19, 2006 Connie Maina, spokeswoman for the Kenya Wildlife Service, said: "The soldiers became lost in the bush. The rhino charged and they ... - Glasgow Daily Record, British troops kill rare white rhinoceros in Kenya Nov 20, 2006 British troops fatally shot an endangered white rhinoceros after it charged them while they were lost on military exercises in northern Kenya, a wildlife ... - Edmonton Journal (subscription), Quick and Easy Getaways Nov 22, 2006 A large population of Black and White Rhinoceros are successfully breeding in the park and chalets, campsites and exclusive lodges are all on offer. ... - The Zimbabwean, UK soldiers kill rare white rhino Nov 19, 2006 British troops training in northern Kenya have shot dead a rare white rhinoceros after it charged at them. The four soldiers were ... - BBC News, British troops kill white rhino Nov 20, 2006 A white rhinoceros – a member of an endangered species – was shot dead after it charged a group of British soldiers lost on military exercises in northern ... - Yorkshire Post Today, British troops shoot endangered rhino Nov 19, 2006 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- British troops shot dead an endangered white rhinoceros after it charged them while they were lost on military exercises in northern ... - CNN UK Soldiers Gun Down Endangered Rhino Nov 19, 2006 NAIROBI, Kenya -- British troops fatally shot an endangered white rhinoceros after it charged them while they were lost on military exercises in northern Kenya ... - Washington Post, Charging rhino gunned down by soldiers Nov 19, 2006 Nairobi - British soldiers shot dead an endangered white rhinoceros after it charged them while they were lost on military exercises in northern Kenya, a ... - Independent Online, British Soldiers Kill Endangered Rhino Nov 19, 2006 British troops were forced to shoot a white rhinoceros after the animal charged them while they were lost on exercises approximately 190 miles north of the ... - ShortNews.com, Take a Walk on the Wild Side Nov 18, 2006 ...include tents and bathroom facilities where program participants gather for meals, lectures and regular wildlife sightings of white rhinoceros, lions and ... - PR.com (press release), Catskill rhinos head west to find sanctuary Nov 17, 2006 By DAN HIGGINS, Staff writer. Like many upstate New Yorkers who have reached their golden years, Boom Boom the southern white rhinoceros is retiring to Arizona. ... - Albany Times Union, Korat zoo joins the safari bandwagon Nov 15, 2006 ...the zoo houses animals native to Asia and Africa, including the big five attractions - the African elephant, lions, leopards, white rhinoceros and wild ... - Bangkok Post, In grand fashion, Cabela's opens for business Nov 8, 2006 Hand-painted murals illustrate dioramas throughout, including an African wildlife scene sporting a black and a white rhinoceros, a blue wildebeest, hyena ... - La Vista Sun, A walk on the wild side at Cabela's Oct 25, 2006 ...the opulence of the outdoors in its La Vista store - a 10-foot-high brown bear, a grizzly, a musk ox, a polar bear, a black and a white rhinoceros and stately ... - La Vista Sun, Group blasts animal auction Oct 26, 2006 That's not illegal. But Page pointed out that Hollender was the man who originally bought the white rhinoceros Boom Boom for $5,500. ... - Albany Times Union, Wild tale from LFAS students 31 Mar 2006 Brutalis, written by LFAS drama teacher Neil Bryson, was inspired by the true story of an African white rhinoceros that, during the 1970s, bonded with a park ... Langley Times, [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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