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Celizic: Team turmoil in Queens, not the Bronx

We all know it’s dangerous to draw conclusions about a baseball season from the results of the season’s first month. So we’re not going to do that. But it doesn’t mean we can’t spot trends that aren’t going to go away quickly.

Bronx Zoo cable car passengers safe after repairs

Dozens of Bronx Zoo sightseers were rescued unharmed after being stuck in cable cars 100 feet above zoo animals for five hours, authorities said.

Mirror Test Implies Elephants Self-Aware

If you're Happy and you know it, pat your head. That, in a peanut shell, is how a 34-year-old female Asian elephant in the Bronx Zoo showed researchers that pachyderms can recognize themselves in a mirror — complex behavior observed in only a few other species.

Elephants see themselves in the mirror

Happy the elephant in front ofthe test mirrors (Image: Joshua Plotnik, Frans de Waal, Diana Reiss)

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America's Must See Zoos
Source: travel.yahoo.com

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Who's New At The Zoo
Source: AOL

I'm going to the zoo, zoo, zoo ... how about you, you, you ... Have you ever seen a pygmy hippo or a teeny, weenie polar bear? Now's your chance. They are all tooooooooo cute! :-)

The Tale of Gay Sheep - More Evidence that "Gay" Is Nature, not Nurture
Source: Independent.co.uk

Whatever happens in 2007, we already have the most surreal headline of the year: "Sheep have right to be gay, says Martina Navratilova".

NPR : From the Belgian Congo to the Bronx Zoo
Source: NPR

(audio article) A few people reminisce on the spectacle in 1906 at the New York Bronx Zoo - an exhibition of an African Pygmy man from the Congo - Ota Benga

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