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A gun rights activist was stopped this week at the Milwaukee County Zoo for openly carrying his firearm.

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A four-year-old white rhinoceros named Vince was shot and killed by poachers who broke into a zoo near Paris sometime Monday night. After the animal's death, poachers cut off his horn with a chainsaw.

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A new federal report says the Cincinnati Zoo's barrier at the gorilla exhibit wasn't in compliance when a 3-year-old boy slipped and fell inside, leading to the shooting death of the now internet-famous Harambe.

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“If anyone doesn't believe a three-year-old can scamper off very quickly, they've never had kids,” said Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters during.

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Polar Park CEO Heinz Strathmann called the incident one-of-a-kind, saying nothing like this ever happened before – and probably will not again.

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Recent flash flooding in the country displaced hundreds of animals from the zoo after it was destroyed, and authorities say another tiger as well as a hyena have yet to be found.

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A man who led a rally in support of open in carry in downtown St. Louis said people have the right to carry guns into the zoo.

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A group of elephants in the Safari Zoo in Ramat Gan, Israel, protected their young from incoming rockets from Gaza Thursday. As the air raid sirens sounded, the elephants huddled together, encircling their children, Buzzfeed reports. According to FOX News, Gaza militants fired over 140 rockets at major residential areas across southern Israel Thursday, marking […]

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A Spanish veterinarian at the Loro Parque zoo in Tenerife Spain mistook an employee in a gorilla costume for a real gorilla, and shot him up with tranquilizer darts. The zoo was conducting a drill to simulate a gorilla on the loose, but a veterinarian with only two months on the job was not made […]

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