I’ve stated it many times before, one of the things that makes me proudest to be a Disney fan is the way the company treats animals at Disney’s Animal Kingdom and beyond via various Disney Conservation programs. This unprecedented time of closure at Walt Disney… Read More »How Disney’s Animal Care team is tending to Walt Disney World’s wildlife during temporary closure
Question: how do you clip the toe nails of a 265 pound Lioness? Answer: Very carefully. As part of the build up to their 10th Anniversary, Disney’s Animal Kingdom has provided The Disney Blog up close access to their animal program and the people who… Read More »Lioness Under Glass – 10 Years Of Caring: Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Next to his own most intimate self-concerns, man is most fascinated by creatures of the animal kingdom. — Walt Disney In 2006, two white rhinos, both born at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, became the first-ever to repatriate from the United States to Africa. The two white… Read More »Repatriating White Rhinos – 10 Years of Caring: Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Fair warning to the men in the room you may want to avert your eyes in sympathy for our fellow mammalian males during this story. Southern Africa has an elephant over population problem. Specifically in South Africa and Botswana Elephant overpopulation in wildlife parks and… Read More »Elephant Population Control Project – 10 Years of Caring: Disney’s Animal Kingdom