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"to know all the animals, but misidentifies a gnu as a ""helk""; the gnu corrects him. In the second verse, he has taken furnished lodgings, and wakes up in the night to see a stuffed hunting trophy above his bed; he is trying to decide whether the animal's head could be a bison, an okapi or a hartebeest, when he seems to hear a voice, asserting indignantly that it is a ""g-nu, a-g-nother g-nu"". Flanders and Swann first performed and recorded this song in their revue ""At the Drop of a Hat"". It was released as a single on the"
"Queen,"" The Wild Swans,"" ""The Ugly Duckling,"" ""The Little Mermaid,"" ""Thumbkinetta,"" ""The Garden of Paradise,"" ""The Fellow Traveller"" (which inspired Tolkien's ""The Hobbit"") and ""The Angel."" Three years later, Eleanor Vere Boyle created what is considered one of her greatest works. In 1875, Eleanor created a retelling and illustration of the well-known story ""Beauty and the Beast."" This work includes ten full color images. She is praised most for her unique take on the Beast. While this story has been illustrated many times, Eleanor Vere Boyle’s version seems to be the first and only to be reminiscent of a sea-creature"
"of the most well known and popular animals in the zoo are Asian elephants, white rhinos, gorillas, and lions. As of March 2012, the large pride included a total of 45 lions. After the 2016 Disney animated film ""Zootopia"" was renamed to ""Zootropolis"" in certain European countries, it was reported that Disney made the decision in order to not overlap with Givskud Zoo's ""Zootopia"" trademark, although Disney claimed that the change was made ""to merely allow the film to have a unique title that works for UK audiences."" Givskud Zoo Givskud Zoo is a zoo and safari park in Givskud,"
"""The Ugly Duckling"" by Hans Christian Andersen tells the story of a cygnet ostracised by his fellow barnyard fowl because of his perceived homeliness. To his delight (and to the surprise of others), he matures into a graceful swan, the most beautiful bird of all. In the famous ballet ""Swan Lake"", the main character, Princess Odette and her companions are turned into swans by a wicked spell. Today, the British Monarch retains the right to ownership of all unmarked mute swans in open water, but Queen Elizabeth II only exercises her ownership on certain stretches of the Thames and its"
"zoos. Zodiac Zoos owned BestZoo, a small zoo in Best, between 2007 and July 2010, when it was sold to Jos Nooren. Together the zoos participate in more than 25 European Endangered Species Programmes (EEP) and 20 European Studbooks (ESB). European Studbooks maintained by Zodiac Zoos include the black crowned crane (""Balearica pavonina"") and the black-eared marmoset (""Callithrix penicillata""). Aqua Zoo Friesland opened in 2003, and is located in Leeuwarden. It specializes in aquatic animals, and is a member of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) and Dutch Zoo Federation (NVD). Animals at the zoo include seals, penguins,"
"times longer, according to Oglebay's website. The Good Zoo is a facility that houses over 80 species of animals. The zoo was dedicated in memory of a seven-year-old boy, Philip Mayer Good, who loved nature. He was the son of Barbara and Larry Good of Wheeling. As of 2017, the Good Zoo's collection includes cheetahs, river otters, spectacled bears, zebras, kangaroos, wallabys, tamarins, lemurs, ostriches, llamas, goats, barn owls, bald eagles, red pandas, gorals, white-naped cranes, a small gang of meerkats and many other animals from all over the globe. It includes a train, which travels through the ostrich exhibit"
"The Ugly Duckling ""The Ugly Duckling"" (Danish: ""Den grimme ælling"") is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). The story tells of a homely little bird born in a barnyard who suffers abuse from the others around him until, much to his delight (and to the surprise of others), he matures into a beautiful swan, the most beautiful bird of all. The story is beloved around the world as a tale about personal transformation for the better. “The Ugly Duckling” was first published 11 November 1843, with three other tales by Andersen in Copenhagen,"
"Planet “Ultimate Zoos.” The white-handed gibbons now live on a lush island in the heart of the Rainforest. The African Savannah, with camels, lions, elephants, meerkats, hyenas and more, was completed in 1998. The Education Center opened its new doors in 1999 with the new main entrance followed soon after in summer 2001 (see picture). In autumn of 2001, a new squirrel monkey exhibit opened along with a larger, newly renovated tiger exhibit. In the spring of 2007, the four dromedary camels were moved to a larger, fenced enclosure uphill from their old enclosure. In 2012 Oakland Zoo celebrated the"
"swan, the loveliest bird of all. Andersen spent more than a year writing the tale, and, at one time, said ""The Ugly Duckling"" was his autobiography. The tale celebrates the cherished romantic view of genius over background and culture – ""it doesn't matter being born in a duckyard if you're hatched from a swan's egg!"" Of Andersen's many tales of transformation, ""The Ugly Duckling"" has gained the greatest universal appeal. Thirty years after its publication, the ""Spectator"" wrote that the tale was – like Solomon's proverbs – ""in everyone's mouth"" and the tale was one of those ""happy arrows that"
"Best Short Subject (Cartoons), and also happened to be the last entry in the ""Silly Symphony"" series, even though it was released as a special one-shot cartoon. In the Andersen tale, a duckling is harassed because of his homeliness. To his delight, he matures into a swan, the most beautiful bird of all, and his troubles are over. In this version, the baby swan's sufferings are shortened, as he is found by his family, after only a few minutes of rejection and ostracism, instead of a whole year. This abbreviated version is read by Lilo to Stitch in the 2002"
"for children was created in aid of Unicef. The Ugly Duckling read by Stephen Fry is included in this collection of fairy tales along with other stories. The Ugly Duckling ""The Ugly Duckling"" (Danish: ""Den grimme ælling"") is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). The story tells of a homely little bird born in a barnyard who suffers abuse from the others around him until, much to his delight (and to the surprise of others), he matures into a beautiful swan, the most beautiful bird of all. The story is beloved around the"
"zoo’s most popular mammals were African lions, white rhinoceri, white-throated Capuchin monkeys, Asian black bears and a polar bear named Winston. Birds on display at the zoo included: golden eagle, lorikeets, scarlet macaws, Indian peacocks. Reptiles at the zoo included: major skinks, bearded lizards, a selection of snakes (boa constrictor, pupuan python, Madagascan Tree Boa etc.) and a tortoises including elongated, hermanns, African spurred, and Aldabran giant. Glasgow Zoo also housed a large farmland display. Some of these animals include sheep, goats, geese, doves, large black pigs, ponies, and guinea pigs. They also had a large number of underwater inclosures"
"troublesome thorn too tiny for the massive lion's claws to grasp. A fitting moral to the story is that kindness is seldom thrown away, be it given to the mightiest or lowliest of creatures. Fredericks captured the story in a single image by contrasting the tiny mouse with the much larger lion. The J. L. Hudson Company commissioned this sculpture for Eastland Center in Harper Woods, Michigan in 1957. Like many of Fredericks' sculptures, he designed it specifically for children. Both animals are humanized with friendly facial expressions. The lion's reclining position and his crossed legs are very human-like, yet"
"the ""Lemminkäinen Suite"" based on Kalevala, with the second piece entitled ""Swan of Tuonela"" ""(Tuonelan joutsen)"". Today, five flying swans are the symbol of the Nordic Countries, the whooper swan (""Cygnus cygnus"") is the national bird of Finland, and the mute swan is the national bird of Denmark. French satirist François Rabelais wrote in Gargantua and Pantagruel that a swan's neck was the best toilet paper he had encountered. A swan is one of the attributes of St Hugh of Lincoln based on the story of a swan who was devoted to him. In Latin American literature, the Nicaraguan poet"
"large enclosures, which are embedded in the forested, hilly landscape. Beautiful ponds are home to a variety of water birds. ""The Polar Bear Group"" is a life-size, bronze animal sculpture in the Aqua Park of the Zoo, created by Josef Tabachnyk in 2007. The Group consists of a mother polar bear with her young cubs in a playful pose, and is based on a flat plate from bright granite, which is reminiscent of an ice floe. The Group was created by the sculptor Josef Tabachnyk and was installed in the zoo in 2007. The measurements of the Polar Bear Group"
"fifteen best zoos in the world by ""Forbes Traveler"" in 2008 and in 2009 as the seventh best in Europe by Anthony Sheridan from the Zoological Society of London. The zoo had the first Indian rhinoceros birth in a zoo, as well as the first greater flamingo hatch. It has had repeated breeding success with animals including cheetahs (18 births), okapi (22), pygmy hippopotamuses (53), and flamingos (over 400 hatches). Every Somali wild ass (a donkey) in zoos worldwide is related to the population in Basel, where this species' zoological breeding program was started. Zoo Basel is undergoing the most"
"Zodiac Zoos Zodiac Zoos (officially ) is a Dutch corporation that owns and operates Aqua Zoo Friesland, Zoo Wissel, Zoo Labyrinth Boekelo, Zoo Park Overloon, and Castle Arcen. The Zodiac Animals Foundation manages the animal collection of the Zodiac Zoos, which includes agile mangabeys, pygmy hippopotamuses, ruffed lemurs, cheetahs, ring-tailed lemurs, Parma wallaby, Kirk’s dik-dik, binturong, Von der Decken’s hornbill, cotton-top tamarins, white-cheeked gibbons, lion-tailed macaques, and Humboldt penguins. Zodiac Zoos, together with the Van Hall Institute of the College Zoo in Leeuwarden have created an internship program in which animal management students can intern at one of the Zodiac"
"inventor rather than a merchant. In 2010, IGN named ""Beauty and the Beast"" as the greatest animated film of all time, directly ahead of ""WALL-E"", ""The Incredibles"", ""Toy Story 2"", and ""The Iron Giant"". Several critics regard the 1991 animated film as superior to the 2017 live-action remake. Michael Phillips of the ""Chicago Tribune"" said that the 1991 film ""worked wonderfully because it was pure Broadway, written for the screen, blending comedy and romance and magic and just enough snark in the margins"", while the 2017 remake got lost in translation since ""The movie takes our knowledge and our interest"
"exhibits, while the old ones are being used as part of zoo expansion and construction. Completed in 2006, Water's Edge is a newer section of the zoo, and is located adjacent to the PPG aquarium. This section is constructed to resemble a coastal fishing village, and illustrates the ways that humans interact with marine wildlife in coastal areas. A long walk-through tunnel runs through three large water tanks containing polar bears, sea otters, an elephant seal, and formerly Grey nurse sharks. According to Barbara Baker, the shark/elephant seal exhibit was originally intended for walruses, but walruses are difficult to obtain."
"flora and fauna on the mountains they each live on top of. Hand drawn, digitally finished animation. This animation concludes Petting Zoo's premise of liberating trapped animals as symbols of contained human emotions. Hand drawn, digitally finished animation. The main character is either the voyeur or liberator of animals trapped in a haunted abandoned zoo. Hand drawn, digitally transferred, finished as 35mm film print. This animation follows Gruber's account of a magical encounter involving resurrecting drowned ladybugs. This project is the collective title of a giant collection of short digital animation experiments by Stefan and guests and updated bi-yearly. Hand"
"others. The zoo's art is intended to enliven and enrich the zoo experience and help fulfill its mission by ""promoting individual discovery and new ways of thinking."" The two largest sculptures are located at the zoo's main entrances. One, ""Sum of the Parts"" is a pile of large metal cubes, about a yard (1 m) on a side. Most of the cubes are shiny and depict extant species, but a few rusted cubes tumbled off to the side memorialize extinct species. The second, ""The Elephant Group"" depicts several large elephants in bronze. The works were installed in 1998. The NC"
"nature scenes. ""La Morgue"" (1906) and ""Kultur"" (1908, ""Culture"") are two of his most well known paintings. As an author he wrote many short stories and tales, often parodies on detective stories or melodramas, small cozy snap-shots from the Copenhagen lower middle class milieu, absurd and surrealistic tales or, especially, ""monologues"" put into the mouth of bums, artists, etc. Special kinds of tales were the monologues put into the mouth of his own dog (the ""Grog, My Dog-tales"" 1926–1935), in which he let the dog reflect on life, death and daily life, sometimes with a light touch of sadness and"
"most of his time visiting the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London and producing beautiful watercolour paintings of the exhibits. These he published as original works of art, along with printed or hand-written text, in a large number of books. His special interest was entomology, but he also published works on molluscs, birds and mammals, including extinct ones. Perhaps of most interest was his ""Personal Recollections of the ""[London]"" Zoo during a Period of Fifty Years"" (1908). This was the ""first accurate history of the Zoo"" and included never before published information concerning the ""true story of Jumbo"", the"
"on Goodreads. It was awarded the 2017 Frances and Wesley Bock Book Award for Children's Literature, an award for books that promote a moral attitude and appeals to young children's sense of wonder and curiosity. In March 2018, Kelley illustrated a children's book called ""A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo"" under the pseudonym EG Keller. The book, written by Jill Twiss, is about a fictional day in the life of Marlon Bundo, the real-life pet rabbit of the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence. The story details the same-sex romance between Marlon Bundo and another rabbit"
"Natura Artis Magistra Artis, short for Natura Artis Magistra (Latin for ""Nature is the teacher of the arts""), is a zoo in the centre of Amsterdam. It is the oldest zoo in the Netherlands and one of the oldest zoos of mainland Europe. Next to possessing a zoo, Artis also contains an aquarium and a planetarium. Artis also has an arboretum and a fairly large art collection. A part of the art collection is on display in the Aquarium building of the zoo. Artis contains 27 monumental buildings, most of which are used as enclosures for the animals, making Artis"
"competition with the Royal Menagerie at the Tower of London with lions, tigers, monkeys, and other exotic species, all confined in iron cages in small rooms. The menagerie was primarily a visitor attraction open to the general public. It was visited by Wordsworth and Byron - who records watching the ""tigers sup"", being amused by a hyena's affection for its keeper, and the tricks played by an elephant with its trunk. Animals in the collection were painted by Edwin Landseer and Jacques-Laurent Agasse. It was also visited by scientists such as Joshua Brookes and J. E. Gray. Gray named the"
"City Council corporatised the zoo and it became the Johannesburg Zoo Company with the Council as its main shareholder and by 2007 was expected to generate 75% of its own budget. The zoo has currently 326 species consisting of 2096 specimens housed consisting of 20 species of frogs, 5 of spiders, 128 of birds, 47 of reptiles, 25 of fish and 101 of mammals. It was home to Africa's last polar bear until 2014. It is one of the few places in the world with white lions (a genetic mutation of African lions), and has had considerable success in their"
"The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (German title: ""Märchen"" or ""Das Märchen"") is a fairy tale by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published in 1795 in Friedrich Schiller's German magazine ""Die Horen"" (The Horae). It concludes Goethe's novella rondo ""Conversations of German Emigrants"" (1795). ""Das Märchen"" is regarded as the founding example of the genre of , or artistic fairy tale. The story revolves around the crossing and bridging of a river, which represents the divide between the outer life of the senses and the ideal aspirations of the human being. The tale"
"offers views of the surrounding parklands and city. The tower was built in 1905 and is one of the tallest observation towers built of wood in the world. Its base is similar to that of Eiffel Tower. Animals exhibited at the zoo that are not housed in any of the main areas include bactrian camels, American flamingos, scarlet ibises, roseate spoonbills, Dalmatian pelicans, turkey vultures, Humboldt penguins, California sea lions, black-capped squirrel monkeys, chimpanzees and lions. In the part of the zoo called ""The Nordics"" (), visitors can see species such as harbour seals, snowy owls, reindeer, musk oxen, brown"
"the Ark in time to be saved from the Great Flood described in the Bible. They are said to be the loveliest of all animals but also silly. Andrew McKee later wrote new lyrics for Brobdingnagian Bards' album ""Songs of Ireland"" (and later for his solo album ""The Irish Bard"") explaining that unicorns were magical creatures, and as the Great Flood was in progress, they grew wings and acquired the power to fly above the waters. He concluded the rewritten refrain by writing that to find them, one should seek out, in James M. Barrie's words from ""Peter Pan"" that"
"grape, and fawn lily still remain in the park. Raccoons, river otters, squirrels, and many types of birds are frequently to be seen. The ponds in the park are noted for their swans, turtles, ducks, Canada geese, and blue herons. The park is notable for a few human-made features, as well. Most prominent is the world's fourth-tallest totem pole, a work carved by Kwakwaka'wakw craftsman Mungo Martin, and erected in 1956 and was when built, the world's tallest. The pebble bridge over the stream between Goodacre and Fountain Lake is a tribute to renowned BC artist Emily Carr, erected by"
"several new exhibits were added to the zoo, including gaur, a children's zoo (Littlefootland) that does not exist anymore, and a new indoor habitat for African elephants, snow leopards and the Indian Rhinoceros Pavilion, as well as, the official opening of the Zoomobile. In 1985, ""Qing Qing"" and ""Quan Quan"" – a pair of giant pandas, on loan for three months from the People's Republic of China, were displayed at the Zoo. The Zoo broke all previous attendance records as thousands of visitors came to see these rare animals. Over the years, the Zoo has presented other rare or unusual"
"2 individuals who made the prints are named S1 and S2. S2 is represented by only 1 print, but S1 left a track of prints, the first 4 of which are shown in the composite image, along with an analysis of step and stride lengths. Further analysis indicated that individual S1 was considerably larger than any of the three individuals from site G. Other prints show the presence of twenty different animal species besides the hominin ""A. afarensis"", among them hyenas, wild cats (Machairodus), baboons, wild boars, giraffes, gazelles, rhinos, several kinds of antelope, ""Hipparion"", buffaloes, elephant relatives (of the"