Zoo

BBC - Two lions, two tigers and a jaguar have escaped from a zoo in Lünebach in western Germany, police have said.

Local authorities advised residents to stay inside their homes and call police if they see anything. A massive hunt is under way for the five big cats.

A bear had also escaped from the privately owned Eifel zoo, but was shot dead, a local official told AFP.

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A protest against the decision of the Razgrad municipal councilors to send the rescued lions Theresa and Maxwood to the zoo in Pazardjik is organized by the Four Paws and the Wildlife Foundation on Tuesday.

A German animal rights group said on Wednesday that it plans to file a lawsuit against the Attica Zoological Park in Spata, east of Athens, over its alleged "criminal" treatment of dolphins.

Bulgaria has agreed to send two lion cubs recently rescued from an illegal zoo in the northern city of Razgrad to a rescue centre for big cats in Holland, run by Four Paws International, an animal rights group announced on Friday.

Inspectors from the Environment Ministry are challenging the legality of a display at the Attica Zoological Park's dolphin pool, which they say is a spectacle that contravenes animal protection laws and the privately owned zoo claims is part of an exercise program.

An international team of veterinarians of the Four Paws Foundation is looking at the lions at the zoo in Razgrad today. The Animal Action is part of an agreement between the organization and the mayor of the municipality, Dr. Valentin Vassilev, to improve the conditions for the animals in the zoo, explained Yavor Gechev of the Four Paws Foundation, quoted by bTV.

Traditionally, on the occasion of the Day of Sofia - 17 September, visitors will be able to use the Vrana Park Museum, the Zoo, the Regional Museum of History in Sofia, the archaeological level of the St. Sofia Basilica and the Sofia City Art Gallery, the municipality said.

One of the world's largest zoos, Gaziantep Zoo in southeastern Turkey, has become the scene of sweet competition with the recent arrival of a new lion cub.

The throne of chimpanzee Can as symbol of the zoo has been shaken by Cesur (Brave), a lion cub recently found abandoned in a car in the Şırnak province's Cizre district. 

Turkey's first Zoology and Nature Museum, which opened on April 23 in the southeastern province of Gaziantep and displays stuffed wild animals, has been visited so far by more than a million people. 

Animals that have completed their life in nature and zoos have been stuffed by experts and put on display at the museum in the Gaziantep Zoo.