Zoo's new baby giraffe has a name - Auckland stuff.co.nz


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Zoo's new baby giraffe has a name
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The latest leggy addition to the Auckland Zoo has finally been named by her keepers. The giraffe calf, born on January 16, has been named Nakuru - the place in Kenya where Rothschild giraffes are found. Rothschild giraffes are one of the most ...

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Great Barrier Reef hopes on ice in Aussie Outback - PhysOrg.com


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Great Barrier Reef hopes on ice in Aussie Outback
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Experts at Dubbo's Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Australia's top wildlife reproductive lab, keep the frozen reef ticking over with regular liquid nitrogen top-ups while they explore optimal conditions for reviving and mating the coral.

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Great Barrier Reef survival frozen in Outback - Radio Australia

Great Barrier Reef survival frozen in Outback
Radio Australia
So Taronga Western Plains Zoo is the home of a large facility that deals with all reproductive aspects of wildlife of every kind, and this is our five invertebrate that we're adding into the frozen zoo. But we have a number of different species that ...

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Auckland Zoo welcomes baby giraffe - Stuff.co.nz


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Auckland Zoo welcomes baby giraffe
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He seems to be happy there," said Grace Honney, the zoo's media and communications manger. The zoo's giraffe population now stands at four after the arrival of female giraffe Kiraka from Taronga Western Plains Zoo last year. Auckland Zoo baby giraffe.
It's a girl! Auckland Zoo's newest addition New Zealand Herald

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Great Barrier Reef 'on ice' - News24

Great Barrier Reef 'on ice'
News24
Experts at Dubbo's Western Plains Zoo, Australia's top wildlife reproductive lab, keep the frozen reef ticking over with regular liquid nitrogen top-ups while they explore optimal conditions for reviving and mating the coral. Some 400km inland from the ...

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It's a bugs life - and this budding scientist is delighted - Sydney Morning Herald


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It's a bugs life - and this budding scientist is delighted
Sydney Morning Herald
The daughter of two scientists - one of whom happens to be the director and CEO of Taronga and Taronga Western Plains Zoos, Cameron Kerr - she has grown up with a love of animals and hopes to get involved in some kind of animal conservation.

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Malcolm John Naden: Weird loner or deviant killer - Herald Sun

Malcolm John Naden: Weird loner or deviant killer
Herald Sun
It begins in Dubbo, capital of the western plains on the Macquarie River, four hours inland from Sydney, halfway between Melbourne and Brisbane. Naden was born there in 1973. Dubbo has thousands of indigenous people - about a fifth of its 40000 ...

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