14 October 2013. RIA-Novosti Presents… Our “Smaller Brothers”… Братья наши меньшие

Parishioners at a church in Vancouver BC CANADA can attend services with their pets. Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord! Praise ye the Lord!

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The governments of Kenya and Tanzania are holding a joint census of elephants and other large mammals. Are the tickbirds the census-takers? Perspirin’ minds wanna know…

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Lions bagging zee’s at a Kenya Wildlife Service conservation centre.

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A three-week-old crested porcupine riding on its mother’s back at a zoo in Szeged (Szeged DIstrict. Csongrád County. Dél-Alföld Region) HUNGARY.

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Yellow baboons chillin’ at the Antwerp Zoo in Anvers/Antwerpen (Arrondissement Antwerpen. Province Antwerpen. Flanders Region) BELGIUM.

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A tiny white lion cub was born at the Belgrade Zoo in Belgrade (Belgrade Municipal Okrug) SERBIA. The little guy doesn’t have a name yet.

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A stork struttin’ his stuff at the Le parc de l’Orangerie Zoo in Strasbourg (Arrondissement Strasbourg-Ville. Département Bas-Rhin. Région Alsace) FRANCE.

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A spectacled bear checkin’ out the photog at a zoological centre in Anvers/Antwerpen Belgium.

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13 October 2013

RIA-Novosti

http://en.ria.ru/photolents/20131013/184070143_8/Lion-cub-and-other-animal-news.html

Bears at the Moscow Zoo-Park Waking Up After Hibernation

There’s bears in the gutter and be careful not to utter a sound that might disturb them…

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On Monday, a spokesman for the Moscow Zoo-Park told RIA-Novosti that the Brown and Himalayan Black Bears slowly began to wake up after hibernation, saying, “The bears in the zoo haven’t woken up completely. They’ve just started to stretch in their cage; they’re not fully-awake, yet. Right now, the bears are only drinking; we’re not feeding them at present”. She noted that not all of the Moscow Zoo-Park bears hibernate. For example, the Sloth Bear, Spectacled Bear, and the Polar Bear with her cubs didn’t sleep over the winter. According to her, five bears at the zoo hibernate in the winter… two Brown Bears and three Himalayan Black Bears.

1 April 2013

RIA-Novosti

http://ria.ru/eco/20130401/930358934.html

 

Bears at the Moscow Zoo have Gone into Hibernation

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On Thursday, Yelena Mendoza, head of the Department of Public Relations of the Moscow Zoo told RIA-Novosti that topsy-turvy Moscow weather didn’t discomfit the brown and Himalayan black bears, noting that they went into hibernation on schedule in late November, saying, “In the wild, bears usually hibernate by late November, we try to get them to bed at the same time. They’re hibernating now”. She explained that the keepers reduce the amount of feed to the bears, putting them on a “light” regimen, then, they stop the food and only put water into their enclosures. Thus, the animals realise that it’s time to hibernate. The zoo has two brown bears and three Asiatic black bears, which hibernate with the arrival of cold weather. They usually wake up at the end of March, when the snow begins to melt. In addition, a sloth bear, a spectacled bear, and polar bears live in the zoo, but they’re active during the winter, Ms Mendoza said.

She added that, in general, the zoo’s inhabitants of the zoo are quietly adapting to the advancing cold in Moscow, noting, “We’ve changed the animals’ diet. For instance, with the large cats, we have to give them more meat”. Ms Mendoza went on to say that they put more hay in the waterfowl pond, and the birds enjoy basking in it. Now that we have decreasing temperatures, she added that all of the animals are now in their “winter” living quarters. In November, the Moscow Zoo switched into its winter routine; it’s now open to the public from 10.00 to 17.00 MSK, but the box office at the main entrance and the petting zoo will cease operation one hour before closing at 16.00 MSK. On 31 December, New Year’s Eve, the zoo will close at 15.00 MSK, and on 1 January, New Year’s Day, as usual, it’s open free of charge. During school holidays, the zoo will be open even on Mondays.

13 December 2012

RIA-Novosti

http://ria.ru/science/20121213/914644863.html