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Girl Bitten by Camel at Virginia Safari Park Gets $155K Settlement

A 10 year old girl who was bitten by a camel at a safari park in Virginia will get a $155,000 settlement. Citing court documents, local media outlets report that Madison Holland’s family has reached a settlement with the Virginia …

How Zoo Emergency Response Teams Handle Dangerous Animals

When a 400-pound gorilla grabbed a 3-year-old boy at the Cincinnati Zoo, the sharpshooter who killed the ape wasn’t from the police. Instead, the shooter was a specially trained zoo staffer on one of the many dangerous-animal emergency squads at …