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The venomous Egyptian cobra that slithered its way to fame by escaping its enclosure at New York's Bronx Zoo for a week before being recaptured has been given a name -- Mia, as in "missing in action." The winning name announced on Thursday by zoo officials was selected from 33,000 nominations...

A 15-year-old lion has died at the Calgary Zoo while being anesthetized for medical checks, the zoo said Thursday. Abena, one of the zoo's three female lions, had for the last three months been experiencing collapsing episodes that were increasing in frequency. The zoo said in a release that...

-- An icy cold front that swept through northern Mexico over the weekend left 65 zoo animals dead, the zoo's owner told CNN on Monday. Parrots, crocodiles and peacocks were among the victims of temperatures that dropped as low as 5 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 15 degrees Celsius) early Saturday...

Siberian tiger Katja is seen in the den with her cub before she abandoned it on Tuesday. A Siberian tiger cub born Monday at the Calgary Zoo has died of organ failure after being abandoned by its mother, Katja. The unnamed female cub died at around 7 p.m. Thursday night, zoo staff announced...

-- Edie the African elephant will not be disciplined or punished for an incident that resulted in the death of a handler, the director of the Knoxville Zoo said Saturday. Stephanie James was fatally injured in the elephant barn while working with another keeper Friday afternoon. Zoo Director...

By The Canadian Press, thecanadianpress.com, Updated: November 25, 2010 6:44 PM Zoo staff rescue woman from Bow River CALGARY - Staff at the Calgary Zoo are being hailed as heroes after a dramatic river rescue. A woman cycling along a nearby river pathway fell into the frigid Bow River, and...

Topeka — There's not much privacy in the animal world. When you gotta go, you gotta go. That's why the elephants at the Topeka Zoo don't mind much that zoo keepers are collecting their poo. Zoo Keeper Kim Doman says, "But they have looked at us a little funny when we've been up there picking up...

A giant panda cub -- the only one this year in the United States -- was born early Wednesday at Zoo Atlanta, the zoo said in a statement. http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/11/03/vo.zoo.atlanta.panda.birth.zooatlanta Atlanta, Georgia -- A giant panda cub -- the only one this year in the...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/10/22/vo.ga.pregnant.panda.zooatlanta Giant panda Lun Lun is pregnant, and officials at the Atlanta, Georgia, zoo say they are thrilled. Animal and veterinary teams estimate that a birth could occur in 10 days to two weeks. It would be the first panda...

Tiger, 2 camels missing in Canada ST. LIBOIRE, Quebec, (UPI) -- Searchers failed Saturday to find a tiger and two camels that disappeared from a motel parking lot in St. Liboire, Quebec, officials said. They did, however, find the pickup truck being used to tow the trailer in which the...

Crowe to direct 'We Bought a Zoo' LOS ANGELES, (UPI) -- Cameron Crowe has signed on to direct a big-screen adaptation of Benjamin Mee's memoir "We Bought a Zoo," The Hollywood Reporter said. The film is to be released in December 2011 and will mark Crowe's first movie since 2005's...

Escaped lion shot dead at zoo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CANBERRA (Reuters) - Staff at an Australian zoo have received hate mail after shooting dead a lioness that escaped from its enclosure near a coastal resort and wandered toward...

Visiting the zoo Visiting the zoo one day, a lady noticed one of the kangaroos had a huge set of balls. She couldn't believe the size of these hummers, and when the 'roo ventured close to the bars of the enclosure, she reached thru the bars and gave his 'nads a squeeze. The animal...