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- Peafowl - San Diego Zoo Animals Plants
A peahen raises her chicks without help from the peacock Normally, when a peacock is just walking around, his train trails behind him but held just above the ground But when he wants to show off for a peahen, he props up the train with his shorter, stiffer tail feathers and unfolds it like a fan into a semicircle 6 to 7 feet (1 8 to 2 1 meters) wide!
- Conservation Landing - San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
Journal Publication of the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance LEARN MORE Threats to Wildlife Sustainability
- Hub Oceans - San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
Oceans hold habitats that are themselves underwater worlds: swaying kelp forests, sunlit coral reefs, thick beds of seagrass, the darkness of the deep sea, and more Marine plants, invertebrates, fish, birds, and mammals all rely on each other in a complex undersea web, and they all depend on healthy oceans to thrive
- Bat-eared Fox - San Diego Zoo Animals Plants
Bat-eared foxes have more teeth (46 to 50) than most mammals, and that's what sets them apart from other foxes While other members of the dog family have two upper and three lower molars on each side of the mouth, bat-eared foxes have three upper and four lower molars
- Learn Your Lions - San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
W hen M’bari died in May 2019, at age 15 from health conditions related to old age, Etosha was by herself in the Zoo’s lion exhibit It was decided to return her to the Safari Park, where she had lived prior to 2009 and could have company, and to bring Miss Ellen and Ernest from the Park to the Zoo
- Giant Otter - San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
Conservation Status: IUCN Red List - EndangeredThreats to Survival: Contamination; overfishing and conflict with fishermen; infrastructure such as roads and hydroelectric dams Studying Giant Otter DemographyGiant otters are large aquatic carnivores that inhabit rivers and seasonal lakes in South America They live in family groups, composed of 2-15 individuals, including a dominant breeding
- Meerkat - San Diego Zoo
Most people know meerkats from the character Timon in The Lion King movie However, instead of spending their time with a warthog, real meerkats live in underground burrows in a group—up to 30 individuals—called a gang or a mob and spend much of their time grooming and playing together to keep the family as a tight unit
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