Endangered Animals

Endangered red panda dies at Chattanooga Zoo

9 Feb 2012

One of the Chattanooga Zoo's three endangered red pandas has died and another is seriously ill. Zoo officials say all the pandas are over the age of 11 -- geriatric for red pandas since the animals normally live about eight to 10 years.

Eastday-Animal monitoring gets techy

9 Feb 2012

SHANGHAI will establish an online "identity platform" for endangered species living in the city, an effort that already has local wildlife-protection authorities transplanting microchips into animals to trace their numbers and living conditions.

Endangered beetle awaits reintroduction in southwest Missouri

9 Feb 2012

COLUMBIA — It mates for life, raises its young as a couple, can detect a dead animal two miles away within an hour of death and bury it up to a foot below the ground. The American burying beetle is unusual among insects, and also one of the rarest  animals in the country. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Saint Louis Zoo are preparing to reintroduce the critically endangered beetle to its ...