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Memphis Zoo offers lesson in the birds and bees

Memphis Zoo offers lesson in the birds and bees

(WMC-TV) – Starting later this month, the Memphis Zoo will help your child learn about the birds and the bees, but this lesson isn’t likely to cause any embarrassing questions for parents.

Memphis Zoo finds “missing” lynx

Memphis Zoo finds “missing” lynx

(WMC-TV) – A group of students attending a lock in at the Memphis Zoo were locked out Wednesday night after a Caracal Lynx disappeared.

But the 20-pound cat went missing even though it never left its enclosure, according to zoo officials.

Memphis Zoo elephant suffers miscarriage

Memphis Zoo elephant suffers miscarriage

(WMC-TV) – She was due to give birth in just a few months, but officials at the Memphis Zoo say that its 29-year-old African elephant has suffered a miscarriage.

An ultrasound expert and veterinarians examined “Gina” Sunday and confirmed that the unborn calf had died.

"Our animal caregivers, researchers and staff have been working for a very long time on this pregnancy, and everyone here at the Memphis Zoo is deeply saddened by this turn of events," said Dr. Chuck Brady, the Memphis Zoo's president.

MPLIC Birding Workshop

MPLIC Birding Workshop

The Memphis Public Library & Information Center along with the Memphis Chapter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society will host an everything you need to know about bird’s workshop at the Cordova Library Branch on Tuesday, March 20 at 2:30 pm. Find out everything you ever wanted to know about birds from Martha Waldron from various bird species, to feeders, migration, and how habitats attract certain species. For more information, call 415-2764.

Information provided by the Memphis Public Library & Information Center

Eco Expo!

The hugely successful Eco Expo is back with even more exhibitors showing us how to treat our earth more gently with green products, materials, services, and organizations.

Exhibitors will be offering ideas and information, and some will be selling their products and services.

The Expo is Sunday February 5th, 2012 from 11am until 3pm at Temple Israel--1376 East Massey Road...Memphis, TN.

For kids and adults of all ages, there’s something for everyone!

Learn, eat, explore, or just visit with some really nice people.

Remember the proverb, “Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents; it was loaned to you by your children.”

We are working together with our fellow community leaders and congregations of all faiths to help save the planet.

E-mail TIMemphisEcoExpo@msn.com or call Linda Kaplan 482-6473 for more information.

Elephants Invade the Pink Palace

 

 The Born To Be Wild IMAX film documents orphaned orangutans and elephants, and the extraordinary people who rescue and raise them.

 Among the most intelligent primates alive today, orangutans are the largest species on earth who make their homes in trees.

 Elephants are the largest land-dwelling creatures on earth today, and they come in three varieties: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant.

Orangutan fossils have been found all over Asia, but today the endangered apes live only on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra.  

January 7th through November 16th 2012.

Owl monkeys need names

Owl monkeys need names

A family of monkeys at the Memphis Zoo needs your help getting names.

The owl monkeys recently moved to the Creatures of the Night exhibit from a Nebraska zoo. The 22-year-old mom and her daughters, 6 and 7-years-old, but they don’t have names yet.

So, Memphis zookeepers are holding a contest to see who can come up with the best monkey names.