Hybrids are still bred in private menageries and in zoos in China.

I don't see anything wrong with zoos.

In the zoological gardens of Mars, there are animals from Earth.

Zoos in 30 countries also have quite a few bison.

Asia ChinaMany zoos and breeding centers in China house giant pandas.

By that year, fewer than 50 remained, all held by zoos.

NHPs are kept in zoos around the globe.

In the past, red pandas were captured and sold to zoos.

Although many modern zoos are more selective about their exhibits, there are more than 1,000 African and 100 Asiatic lions in zoos and wildlife parks around the world.

And they're not in too many zoos, because of their sexual behavior.

Sources of animals By the year 2000 most animals being displayed in zoos were the offspring of other zoo animals.

Historically, zoos were primarily a form of entertainment, but more recently have shifted their focus towards conservation, education and research.

Domestic owners obviously have no way of achieving anything near what zoos have.

Considered a flagship species, 55 individuals were counted in captivity in North American zoos and aquaria in 1999.

It is a struggle to keep a chimp humanely and safely even for zoos and sanctuaries.

In captivity Though rare, Sumatran rhinoceroses have occasionally been exhibited in zoos for nearly a century and a half.

Environmentalism Nazi society had elements supportive of animal rights, and many people were fond of zoos and wildlife.

Less well known marine groups include the classes Remipedia, Cephalocarida, Branchiopoda, Maxillopoda (which includes the barnacles, copepods and fish lice), and the Ostracoda.

Having more than all the orangutans in all the zoos in the world together, just now like victims for every baby, six have disappeared from the forest.

And this is why our species has prospered around the world while the rest of the animals sit behind bars in zoos, languishing.

More than 400 registered zoos and animal parks operate in Germany, which is believed to be the largest number in any country.

Between 1984 and 1996, this ex situ conservation program transported 40 Sumatran rhinos from their native habitats to zoos and reserves across the world.

Do not miss the other popular zoo residents such as the elephants, pumas, chimpanzees and birds of prey, whose breeding programme is the biggest one in Europe!

Individual chimpanzees are much stronger than human beings, but as a species, we can, and do, hold them captive, and essentially helpless, in zoos and laboratories.

Hybridization occurs where two species' range overlap to form hybrid zones hybrids may be created by humans when animals are placed in zoos or due to environmental pressures such as predation.

All primate infants are breastfed by their mothers (with the exception of some human cultures and various zoo raised primates which are fed formula) and rely on them for grooming and transportation.

In captivity In Ancient Roman times, tigers were kept in menageries and amphitheatres to be exhibited, trained and paraded, and were often provoked to fight humans and exotic beasts.

Although in zoos the Sumatran rhino has been observed wallowing less than 45 minutes a day, the study of wild animals found 80 300 minutes (an average of 166 minutes) per day spent in wallows.

The species was listed as Endangered by the IUCN in 1982, and by 1984 the National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. and the World Wide Fund for Nature, through the Golden Lion Tamarin Association, began a reintroduction programme from 140 zoos worldwide.

In captivity Lions are part of a group of exotic animals that are the core of zoo exhibits since the late eighteenth century members of this group are invariably large vertebrates and include elephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, large primates, and other big cats zoos sought to gather as many of these species as possible.

Tigers became central zoo and circus exhibits in the eighteenth century a tiger could cost up to 4,000 francs in France (for comparison, a professor of the Beaux Arts at Lyons earned only 3,000 francs a year), or up to 3,500 in the United States where a lion cost no more than 1,000.