 Two peacocks walked and flew around Brooklyn’s Prospect Park and Botanic Garden after escaping from the zoo. The naughty birds had just been given free range of the zoo and took their freedom a little too far.
Keep reading Two peacocks escape zoo, wander through Brooklyn’s Prospect Park and Botanic Garden
 Ol Pejeta Conservancy asks the public for $35k to buy a drone to protect what may be the world’s last four northern white rhinos from poachers.
Keep reading Rarest rhino species may be saved by crowdfunded drones
 SeaWorld IPO documents show a company deep in debt and reveal some interesting stats about how they do business.
Keep reading SeaWorld selling stock: don’t mind the debt, trainer deaths, dolphin trade
 Lonely Planet names 10 snake watching sites, with Manitoba on top. Great list, but misses some possibilities like the Everglades, South of the Border or Pentecostal churches.
Keep reading What are the best places in the world to see snakes?
 A Barnacle goose that somehow migrated from Greenland onto the wrong continent is beloved by Brooklyn birders, but shunned by Canada geese.
Keep reading Goose from Greenland has many Brooklyn fans, but Canada geese not among them
 A rare Barnacle goose from Greeland is trying to blend in with a flock of plain Canada geese in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. As if he wasn’t on the wrong side of the Atlantic, much smaller and much fancier.
Keep reading Goose from Greenland hangs out in Brooklyn
 At least 10 species of beetle are easily mistaken for the hated Asian longhorn beetle.
Keep reading What’s black and white and not an Asian longhorn beetle?
 Bears escaped from desolate pens where they performed for food (and may have been part of gall bladder harvest). Two of 3 elderly caretakers were found dead.
Keep reading Bears kill keepers in creepy Japanese Bear Farm
 James Cameron found nothing more than shrimp on his dive to the Mariana Trench. Richard Branson hopes to see more when he visits the deepest spot in the Atlantic this year.
Keep reading Explorers hope for less boring critters on upcoming seafloor trench dives
 A “Nature” documentary salutes Toronto’s high density of urban wildlife, but tourism officials want to hide their light under a bushel.
Keep reading Toronto snubs “Raccoon Capital of the World” title
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