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Flowers lay around a bronze statue of a gorilla and her baby outside the Cincinnati Zoo’s Gorilla World exhibit, two days after a boy tumbled into its moat and officials were forced to kill Harambe, a 17-year-old Western lowland silverback gorilla, in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 30, 2016. REUTERS/William Philpott

Gorilla Killing at Cincinnati Zoo Sparks Probe into Possible Criminal Charges

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 31, 2016 | World

A gorilla was killed in Cincinnati Zoo in order to rescue a 4-year-old boy who had fallen into its enclosure, however the police are investigating possible criminal charges in regard of the incident that went viral, said a prosecutor on Tuesday. A federal negligence...

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Farid Al-Hissi scratches the neck of the lioness from outside the cage housing her and a lion at the Bisan Zoo, in Beit Hanun in the Gaza Strip on August 14, 2014. (AFP Photo/Roberto Schmidt)

Gaza’s zoos: Green retreats reduced to ashes

by Mahmoud Abu Awad | Aug 22, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

Gaza, Asharq Al-Awsat—Israeli airstrikes on Gaza’s zoos have killed most of the resident animals, and the remaining creatures are starving, sick or injured, say zookeepers in the enclave. Bisan Amusement Park in northern Gaza, the largest zoo on the Strip, was among...