News of animal

A year after first death in China, coronavirus source still a puzzle

11-01-2021 12:19 January 11, 2021 marks the anniversary of China confirming its first death from the Covid-19 coronavirus – a 61-year-old man who was a regular at the now-notorious Wuhan wet market linked to many of the early cases.

ANIMAL RIGHTS

Mara the ex-circus elephant arrives in Brazil to enjoy retirement

14-05-2020 09:06 Mara spent much of her life as a circus attraction, then was brought to the Buenos Aires City Zoo in 1995. Now, she's set for a new life at a sanctuary in Mato Grosso.

ANIMAL RIGHTS

Sandra the Orangutan makes new friend in Florida

17-02-2020 08:18 Prior to moving, Sandra had lived alone in the Buenos Aires City Zoo. Now she's celebrating her 34th birthday on Valentine's Day with a special new primate friend.

ANIMAL RIGHTS

'She's doing well' – Sandra the orangutan makes new friends in Florida

29-01-2020 14:45 The Center for Great Apes in Florida plays host to 53 chimpanzees and orangutans, many of whom once worked in Hollywood. Among them is an ex-resident of the Buenos Aires City Zoo – Sandra the orangutan.

Elephant Packs his Trunk

After 25 years, elephant leaves Ecoparque for new life in Brazil

20-01-2020 00:00 Mara the elephant will leave her enclosure in the heart of Buenos Aires and be moved to a special sanctuary in Brazil – but before her trip, she will undergo a training process to prepare her trip.

ANIMAL RIGHTS

10 grizzly bears relocated from Mendoza to Colorado

02-12-2019 07:27 The bears come from the Mendoza Zoological Park in the Mendoza Province near the Chilean border. The zoo was the subject of protests for housing a polar bear that died in 2016.

ANIMAL RIGHTS

Sandra the orangutan settles into new home in Florida

07-11-2019 17:00 Sandra, a resident of the Buenos Aires City Zoo for 25 years, left for the United States in late September. She was in quarantine for a month at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Kansas before arriving in Florida.

SPANISH AUTHORITIES

Madrid set to clip wings of 12,000 noisy Argentine parakeets

07-10-2019 17:25 In a statement, city hall said it has drawn up a plan "to reduce and control the population" without giving a figure. One element of the plan would involve sterilising eggs in the nest to encourage female Argentine quaker parrots to incubate but not hatch them.

ANIMAL RIGHTS

Sandra the orangutan heads for new life in US ape sanctuary

26-09-2019 07:00 Sandra, who a judge ruled in 2015 was legally not an animal but a “non-human person,” is heading to a sanctuary near Florida, after nearly a quarter-century in an enclosure in the centre of Buenos Aires.

HEALTH AND SCIENCE

Japan approves growing human organs in animals for first time

01-08-2019 13:58 It is the first step in what researchers caution is a very long path towards a future where human organs for transplant could be grown inside animals.