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Saving Big Cats with Science

Happy International Tiger Day. This day was created to help raise awareness for the largest living cat species on Earth. Although tigers once dominated the Asian landscape, habitat loss and poaching have dramatically decreased [...]

Propagating a Passel of Pallas’ Cats

Pallas' cat kitten produced by artificial insemination performed by CREW scientists (Photo: Columbus Zoo & Aquarium)

Pallas’ cats (Otocolobus manul) have been one of the focal species for conservation research at the Zoo’s Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW) for the past 20 years. Our studies in [...]

Paws on the Ground: Zoos Work Together to Produce a Second Pallas’ Cat Birth through Artificial Insemination

Pallas' cat born at Columbus Zoo (Photo: Amanda Carberry)

For several years, scientists at the Cincinnati Zoo’s Lindner Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW) have been working to apply reproductive sciences, such as semen freezing and artificial insemination (AI), to [...]