HEADLINE: Horse Flap: NYC carriage rides inhumane?

CAPTION: Speaking before an audience of animal rights activists, New York''s governor David Paterson says the Central Park carriage horses should be better...

1. Low angle shot of London Zoo entrance

2. Mid of London Zoo
sign
3. Mother lion, Abi, with two cubs lying on
the ground
4. Visitors
watching lions
5. Cub pla
ying with Abi's tail
6. David...

Berlin - 7 January 2009

1. Wide of polar bear Knut's enclosure with visitors lookin
g in
2. Knut on
icy ground
3. C
lose up of Knut
4. Knut with ball in his mouth, shaking his head,...

1. Mid of 8-year-old male gorilla, Mbeli, lying down on examination table

2. Close-up of monitoring equipment in operating
room
3. Mid of medics examining 22-year-old male gor
illa Kekla
4. Wide of...

<HEADLINE: Chinese zoo showcases live animal attacks

CAPTION: Caution Graphic Video: Animal rights activists are outraged by a Chinese zoo that lets tourists watch tigers attack and kill live...

The first case of tuberculosis in a wild elephant has been found in Kenya.

TB is common among elephants, but until now it has only affected animals that have regular human contact such as in zoos or...

English/Nat

It was a case of beauties and the bride-t
o-be.
During a fund-raising event at the Johannesburg zoo, three former South African beauty queens lavished gifts on Fergie the orang-utan...

Wildlife Conservation Society - Must on screen credit: "Courtesy of Wildlife Conservation Society''

Bronx Zoo, New York - July/August
2005
1. Wide shot elephant walking up to...

The newest resident of Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo wears stripes and weighs in at 109 pounds (49.44 kilos) The as yet unnamed foal is a Grevy's zebra, the third born to 9-year-old Adia. Zoo staff arrived early on Saturday to find the...

SHOTLIST (including transcript):-AP Entertainment Lima, 23 March 20161. Two white Bengal tiger cubs standing inside zoo's tiger habitat 2. Cub playing with mother 3. Woman taking picture of cub with cell phone 4. Cubs playing with mother...

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, many visitors have snubbed the German capital's glitzy western districts in favour of the city's hip, exciting east.

But...

FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus058014The newest resident of Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo wears stripes and weighs in at 109 pounds. The unnamed foal is a Grevy's (GREH'-veez) zebra, the third born to 9-year-old Adia (AH'-dee-uh)....

RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST: AP TELEVISION – AP CLIENTS ONLYMilwaukee. – May 11, 20161. Various of Milwaukee County Zoo tigersAP TELEVISION – AP CLIENTS ONLYDallas – June 30, 20162. SOUNDBITE...

A zoo in Belgium has welcomed some new additions to its collection of exotic animals. A series of large animal statues made entirely from LEGO have been installed around the park as part of an exhibition that in park seeks to raise...

A zoo in Belgium has welcomed some new additions to its collection of exotic animals. A series of large animal statues made entirely from LEGO have been installed around the park as part of an exhibition that in park seeks to raise...

AP Television

Jakarta - 6 December,
2012
1. Various of gorillas walking at prim
ate centre
2. Wide of primate centre with
viewing bridge
3. Wide of...

THE DETROIT ZOO WOULD LIKE TO SEE TOADS HANG AROUND AS LONG AS POSSIBLE.SOUNDBITE: Dr. Ruth Marcec, Detroit Zoo (partially covered):"It is very much a crisis. It's actually nicknamed 'the amphibian extinction crisis.'"WHICH IS WHY IT...

LEAD IN: Eager to stop wildlife poaching, some in Africa are taking the drastic step of de-horning rhinos before the illegal hunters do, taking a chainsaw to the hulking animals' most distinctive feature.Southern white rhinos are listed...

About a year after moving into spacious new digs in New Orleans, African animals are doing just what officials from two zoos had hoped when they created the forested paddocks: being fruitful and...

LEADIN

Spacious new digs created in the US are providing a boost for the African animals t
here.
In around a year it seems they are doing what officials...

LEADIN

Spacious new digs created in the US are providing a boost for the African animals t
here.
In around a year it seems they are doing what officials...

LEAD IN:

Madrid zoo and aquarium reassured the public on Thursday that animals were being cared for despite the state of emergency in place across Spain.

English/Nat

For years, wildlife in Kenya's Amboseli National Park has been falling victim to poachers out for profit and farmers trying to protect their c
rops.
But now, conservationists...