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Zoo keepers in England had to learn French in order to speak to baboons coming from a french zoo, because the animals didn't respond to english commands.
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A penguin escaped from Tokyo Sea Life Park and thrived in Tokyo Bay for 82 days after scaling the 13 foot high wall and managing to get through a barbed-wire fence into the bay. The penguin, known only by its number (337) was later recaptured by the zoo keepers.
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In the 1920s four pythons were shipped from India to the San Diego Zoo. Four live pigeons were included as food, but two survived and zoo keepers were so taken by them they bred them into species prized around the world.
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A Zoo Keeper helped a constipated monkey pass a peanut by licking its ass for an hour.
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Cassowaries is considered the most dangerous bird in the world. It is also the most difficult animal to keep in the Zoo because of the frequent injuries suffered by the Zoo keepers.
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Flamingos aren't actually pink. They're naturally grey, but due to their diet mainly consisting of shrimp, it turns them pink. Flamingos in zoos would often lose most of their pink colouration until keepers started adding synthetically pink foods to their diets.
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There are around 56 rusty-spotted cats in the zoos around the world. Captive animals are playful and affectionate toward their keepers.
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A Chinese zoo keeper licked a rare monkeys rectum for an hour to save its life and help it pass a peanut.
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In 1941 a zoo keeper, George Lewis, once fought an elephant that attacked him with his bear hands, escaping after stunning the animal by punching it in the eye
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Ben, the world’s last thylacine — “a striped, smooth-coated wolf with a furry rod for a tail” — died in Hobart Zoo in 1936 when his keeper accidentally left him outdoors overnight.
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Zoo keepers have shown videos of pandas having sex to other pandas to stimulate sexual activity.
