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Kevin “Doc” Antle’s secret life on the lam from Iowa

October 16, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Does Antle fear identification with the ordinary more than felony charges?             RICHMOND, Virginia––Kevin “Doc” Antle,  who styles himself “Mahamayavia Bhagavan Antle,”  appears to have spent most of his adult life trying to  avoid being identified with his youth in Bettendorf,  Iowa,  never once mentioned in any of dozens of interviews with him collected by […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Circuses, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Sanctuaries, Spectacles, Tigers, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Barbara Fisher, Carole Baskin, Christian Dall’Acqua, Don Elroy, Ellen Dahnke, Jack Hanna, Joe Exotic, John Weinhart, Keith Wilson, Mahamayavia Bhagavan Antle, Merritt Clifton, Sue Pressman, Tawny Antle, Tilakum Antle

Koalas:  Zen In Fur

May 29, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Edited by Joanne Ehrich Koala Jo Publishing (http://www.koalajo.com/books.html),  2006. 97 pages,  paperback.  Originally published at $35.00,  now discounted. Early in 2006 graphic artist Koala Jo Ehrich produced a lavish 260-page photo collection entitled Koalas:  Moving Portraits of Serenity,  with an afterword by celebrity zoo personality Jack Hanna,  to help the Australian Koala Foundation raise money for koala conservation and […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Jack Hanna, Jo Ehrich, Merritt Clifton

How 2011 Zanesville massacre moved Ohio to act on exotic wildlife

October 19, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

46 animal deaths & a suicide belatedly impelled anti-regulation politicians to regulate ZANESVILLE,  Ohio––Six years after exotic animal collector Terry Thompson,  of Zanesville,  Ohio,  released 56 lions,  tigers,  leopards,  pumas,  wolves,  bears and monkeys before committing suicide on October 18,  2011,  “Ohio no longer has a reputation as a state with lax animal laws,”  recently […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Laws, Laws & politics, Sanctuaries, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Gwen Myers DVM, Hannah Sparling, Jack Hanna, John Kasich, Jonathan Merry, Kathy Thompson, Laura Bischoff, Marian Thompson, Matt Lutz, Merritt Clifton, Sam Kopchak, Steve Graham, Terry Thompson

Myth: that the gorilla Harambe “protected” fallen four-year-old

June 2, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Infanticide is among leading causes of gorilla deaths in the wild Part II of a four-part series.  See also:   The myth & mystery of Harambe the Cincinnati Zoo gorilla;  Conclusion: what the life & death of Harambe the gorilla means;   And the lesson from Harambe’s death is?   Well, it’s not to blame mom. Much of the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Uncategorized, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Amanda O'Donoughue, Binti Jua, Cincinnati Zoo, Damien Aspinall, Durrell Wildlife Park, Harambe, Jack Hanna, Jambo, John Aspinall, Levan Merritt, Merritt Clifton, Tansy Aspinall

Giraffe killing in Copenhagen brings zoo culling to global notice

March 25, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Marius the giraffe was then dissected                   COPENHAGEN––Despite a worldwide campaign to save him,  a healthy 18-month-old bull giraffe named Marius was on the morning of February 9,  2014 lured from his quarters at the Copenhagen Zoo with a treat of rye bread,  then dispatched with a captive […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Zoos Tagged With: Bengt Holst, Jack Hanna, John Knight, Liz Tyson, Marc Bekoff, Marius, Merritt Clifton, Steve Graham, Wayne Pacelle

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