Rossifari Zoo News 01.05.24 - The Chaotic Naked Mole Rat Edition!

Dateline: January 5, 2024. Rossifari Zoo News is back with a round up of the latest news in the world of zoos, aquariums, conservation, and animal weirdness!  We start with our births section, featuring a new rhino at the Toronto Zoo, two squirrel monkey babies at the San Diego Zoo, a turaco chick at the Honolulu Zoo, baby babirusa born at San Antonio and Zoo Miami, and Sumatran tiger cubs born at the Auckland Zoo and Biopic Roma! We then go to our deaths, where we say goodbye to a giraffe at the Dallas Zoo, an okapi at the Denver Zoo, and a juvenile red panda at the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Gardens. We then move on to our other Zoo News stories, including a whale of a tale from the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island, an incredible donation to Zoo New England, an incredible birth announcement from Sedgwick County Zoo, a deep dive into naked mole rat power struggles, and so much more! In Conservation News, we talk about a distressed baby whale in Hawaii and how a human managed to make the situation worse, an amazing award for a Forest Guardian of Red Panda Network, some exciting news for right whale conservation, and an update on the whooping crane population in the US. And in Other News, we talk about animals that care about human labor struggles.ROSSIFARI LINKS: www.rossifari.com patreon.com/rossifari @rossifari on socials @rossifaripod on TikTok