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A trip to the Palm Beach Zoo is evolving. In the coming months, the zoo will no longer be only a place for daytime excursions with the kids, but also a destination that fuses live music rare animal ...

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Lola, the binturong at the National Zoo, is known for being 'a bit standoffish' Skip Brown/Smithsonian A binturong at the National Zoo, bit two employees, sending both to the hospital out of an ...

Two keepers at the National Zoo were bitten Friday by an animal called a binturong during what the zoo said was a routine training session. The injuries were described as not life-threatening. The ...