San Francisco Zoo announces death of its oldest female mandrill
(KRON) – The San Francisco Zoo announced the death of its oldest female mandrill monkey named Angie on Tuesday. The zoo recently celebrated the mandrill’s 35th birthday. Angie was the olden female mandrill in a North American accredited zoo at the time of her passing, the zoo said. Zoo officials observed that Angie’s quality of […]
POWELL, Ohio (WCMH) -- Columbus Zoo veterinarians and Nationwide Children’s Hospital doctors teamed up for a surgery on a mandrill in early September. It may seem like an unlikely pairing, but the surgery was a major success. Vets at the zoo noticed Matilda, a 13-year-old mandrill, was having some breathing…
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Strike, the Oregon Zoo’s beloved elderly cheetah, died at 15 years old on Wednesday. Zookeepers say his health had been in rapid decline due to his “advanced age,” so he was humanely euthanized. At the time of his death, he was the second oldest cheetah in…
(WPHL) -- For the first time in over 150 years, the Philadelphia Zoo has new additions to the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise family. The zoo announced the hatching of four critically endangered hatchlings born to the zoo's oldest residents: Female Mommy and male Abrazzo, both of whom are estimated…