Mexico’s Giant Panda Turns 33
Xin Xin is one of the world’s longest-living giant pandas
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Mexico City Government Collects Millions for Deaths of Endangered Rabbits
By MARK LORENZANA The Chapultepec Zoo, located in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, is the oldest and best-known wildlife park in the country. It is also home to the only reproductive colony in the world of teporingos, also known as zacatuches or volcano rabbits, which are an endemic and highly endangered species. However, the capital government has allegedly collected millions of
Read moreLast Orangutan in Chapultepec Zoo Dies
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Toto, the last surviving orangutan in Mexico City’s Chapultepec Zoo, has died, the city’s Environment Secretariat (Sedema) reported late Wednesday, Dec. 8. Toto, a male ape that was donated to Mexico by the Indonesian government, was one month short of reaching age 30. According to zoo sources, he had begun to be listless and
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