From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2012: CAIRO–Fear of foot-and-mouth disease left thousands of camels stranded as of March 31, 2012 aboard a livestock transport ship in the Red Sea, the Egypt Independent and Al-Masry Al-Youm reported. Thousands more camels were “stuck in a Suez quarry,” the Egypt Independent and Al-Masry Al-Youm said. In addition, the [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011: By Merritt Clifton Knut, 4, a polar bear who was rejected by his mother soon after birth at the Berlin Zoo on December 5, 2006, but was raised by his keepers, died suddenly on March 19, 2011 from unknown causes. [Update: Knut is now thought to have drowned after gradually developing [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011: Concern for animals who were locked up in Cairo under curfew CAIRO–Unable to move about Cairo and surrounding suburbs during the January/February 2011 Egyptian unrest, due to barricades guarded by police, the military, and ordinary citizens trying to protect their neighborhoods, animal rescuers did what they could by cell telephone [...]