Black Rhino Bites Woman's Finger At Denver Zoo

DENVER -- The Denver Zoo has indefinitely suspended a program that let visitors pay to touch and feed a rhino after a black rhinoceros bit a woman's finger.

The zoo says the woman was taken to a hospital Wednesday after Mshindi the rhino bit her finger while she was feeding it. The woman's condition wasn't disclosed.

Zoo officials called the incident a "terrible accident" and said they don't think the rhino was trying to harm her.

The zoo this year started offering a rhino "meet and greet" in which visitors who paid an extra $60 were offered a chance to touch and feed a rhino. Other zoos have had similar programs.

The Denver Zoo says it will report the accident to its accrediting agency, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.

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Cheetah Twins Arrive at Denver Zoo

Cheetah twins have arrived at the Denver Zoo and can now be seen by the public.

The brothers were born in October 2010, at the Wilds, a wildlife conservation center near Zanesville, Ohio. They were moved to the Denver Zoo because the nearly full-grown animals needed more space, according to a release from the zoo.

The two young cheetahs are named Marvin and Mojo, and replace the zoo's last cheetah, an eight-year-old male named Barafu, who was sent to the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Va., to breed.

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Denver Zoo Team Creates Insurance Population to Save the Lake Titicaca Giant Frog

DAILY ROSETTA (USA) 12/14/10 (Jeff Jankowski)

The biologists and the Denver zoo team have gone to South Peru in creating an insurance population laboratory to save the endangered Lake Titicaca giant frog. This insurance population was built as a laboratory for the breeding of more giant frog from Lake Titicaca. Giant frogs were very much in danger of extinction because some people in Peru were capturing them into frog shakes which have become common in their area.

These set of teams from Denver were on its focus on helping to revive the population of these frogs. Before, they have created a breeding laboratory in Lima, but now that the giant frog concern has gotten horrible, they have built another laboratory at Puna near Lake Titicaca. Even before this, Peru had already made laws that were bound to protect these giant frogs but it appears that Peruvian people do not care about the law and still continue in taking the frogs for trade.

For this, the Denver zoo team and biologists have informed the Peruvian public that they will be offering great rewards to people who can identify haulers who have made the giant frogs became endangered. A reward amounting to $2,000 was promised to be given by the team for every successful hint done by Peruvian.

This international project done by the Denver zoo team was just among the mission of the team with an objective that is to secure a better world for animals through human understanding.

From: Herp Digest,
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