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• Doctors: No hamsters, exotic pets for kids
Also, kids that young should avoid contact with these animals in petting zoos or other public places, according to the report from the American Academy of Pediatrics. The report appears in the October edition of the group's medical journal, Pediatrics
• Rare turtles fail to produce offspring
The zoo responded last year to an urgent appeal sent to all of China's zoos, saying it had a female that looked like the turtle in the photo sent with the appeal. A team of experts from the U.S. and China then prepared her for the potentially ...
• Chicken soup for stressed-out pandas
The giant panda is an unofficial national symbol of China. Only about 1,600 pandas live in the wild, mostly in Sichuan. An additional 180 have been bred in captivity, many of them at Wolong, and scores have been loaned or given to zoos abroad, with ...
• Tricks and Treats: Zoos go all out for Halloween
TOLEDO, Ohio - Ghosts and ghouls — friendly ones at that — are about to take over America's zoos. Hay mazes, pumpkin paths and haunted train rides too. And there will be lots of candy, of course. Zoos big and small are finding that Halloween ...
• Zoo animals also victims of tainted milk crisis
BEIJING - China's milk crisis apparently has spread to animals, with a lion cub, two baby orangutans and two adult gorillas developing kidney stones at zoos in China. All were fed powder made by the Sanlu Group Co., which is at the center of the ...