Tag: ZOO

What's the story, Missouri? All the rest of the states enjoy technology. We surf on the Facebook, and send the textings, and play 'The World of the Warcraft,' and so forth. And you know what? We have fun with it. But you -- you, Missouri -- you have to go and pee on our parade, don't you? You have to take technology and make it evil. Well, Mizzou, we've had enough. We don't know what's more ...

The birth of a baby panda at the San Diego zoo attracted so many online viewers (perhaps one-upping the panda sneeze) that the zoo's webcam-feed up and crashed Three-hundred-pound panda mom Bai Yun gave birth to a 4-ounce cub last Wednesday in front of a streaming webcam at the San Diego Zoo. Baby animals are always exciting (apparent after the Webby-award-nominated Shiba Inu puppy cam changed ...

We're all pretty comfortable with the idea of online dating for humans, but mating sites for zoo creatures might be a bit much for even us to swallow. Zoos have long kept what they call studbooks, printed indexes of animals ready for mating, but as with everything else in this world, studbooks are starting to go digital. Ed Diebold, director of animal collections at Riverbanks Zoo, explains (to ...