Animal census in world zoos and other animal news

In early January many world zoos begin a yearly census of their inhabitants.
Photo: Lemur in ZSL Whipsnade Zoo, Bedfordshire, England

The census at Whipsnade Zoo, owned by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), even included the stick insects

The Vienna Zoo (Tiergarten Schoenbrunn) counted, weighed and measured its residents.
Photo: A squirrel eating nuts in Vienna Zoo

Photo: Is this Vienna Zoo employee studying the sea lion or vice-versa?

After Christmas, fir-trees become elephant fodder in the Vienna Zoo

The Hannover Zoo weighed and counted all coatis

This dog nursery in Martigny is one of the oldest in Switzerland. On December 18, 2011, eighteen St. Bernard puppies were born in the dog nursery. At this tender age, the puppies spend most of the time with their mother or play with each other. When they are three months old, the puppies will be handed over to new owners

The Cali Zoo in Santiago de Cali, Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia, boasts a family of spectacled bears, a mother and cub that was born four months ago

Royev Ruchey Flora and Fauna Park, in Krasnoyarsk, has two of the rarest animals, white lions. Lion cubs Agata and Almaz arrived from South Africa about a year ago

Khan, White Bengal Tiger, is one of the residents of the Krasnoyarsk Zoo. White tigers are very rare, have white coats and blue eyes. Their noticeable coloration impedes hunting and adversely affects their survival in the wild

Royev Ruchey Zoo employee playing with guanaco Timosha

Animal rights activists protesting euthanasia for stray dogs in front of the Constitutional Court in Bucharest, brought along Hercules, a dog whose hind legs are paralyzed

It snows at times in Dachigam National Park, Jammu and Kashmir, State of India, home to a leopard named Rani

In Hsian, the capital of Shaanxi Province, People’s Republic of China, an asylum for stray pets is home to about two hundred dogs

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