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The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) has revealed its 2023 award winners at the 78th WAZA annual conference.

The World Association of Zoos ad Aquariums (WAZA) has announced the winners of awards at its 77th WAZA Annual Conference.

Flensburg: Die Möwe fasziniert – weckt aber auch Hass in mir Die Möwe fasziniert – weckt aber auch Hass in mir Kein Tier verkörpert den Charakter der Küste so sehr wie die Möwe. Sie verblüfft mit erstaunlicher Kühnheit und strahlt selbst auf einer Müllkippe noch erhabenen Stolz aus. Doch wer am Meer lebt, kennt die unangenehmen Seiten der Vögel. Stand: 02.07.2021 | Lesedauer: 5 Minuten Von Lennart Adam Mit diesem Trick können Sie ihr Essen vor Möwen schützen Das Phänome...

Save this story for later. Shortly after midnight on the first day of 2020, five paper lanterns floated over the Krefeld Zoo, in western Germany. The lanterns drifted from a nearby neighborhood, where three women had lit their wicks and watched them lift into the stars. “They even wrote their names and wishes for the new year on the lanterns,” Wolfgang Dressen, the director of the zoo, said. In the morning, the police recovered four lanterns from the trees around the ape house. They believe...

  In 1994, soon after completing his architectural studies at Trinity College Dublin, Kieran Stanley landed in Hanover in Germany. He started work there with an architectural practice that had just been commissioned to develop and plan the city’s zoo, a new type in Europe. He was principal designer there until 1999, when he established the Dan Pearlman Group in Berlin with his wife, Nicole Srock. It’s a Berlin-based group of owner-managed creative agencies that has grown over the pa...

peripersonal space , the region in and around a persons body (peri comes from the Ancient Greek meaning about, around, enclosing or near). Peripersonal space exists in various forms across the animal kingdom, from fish and fruit flies to wild horses and chimpanzees. The neuroscience behind it sheds fascinating light on how humans and other animals conceive of themselves and their boundaries. Where is the dividing line between you and the world? You might think that this is a clean-cut question ...