Friday,
October
3
, 2008
06
:33
pm
After a 62 million dollar overhaul the Bronx Zoo's 1903 Lion House on Astor Court now houses rare plants and animals from Madagascar.
“A Walk to Beautiful” tells the stories of rural women who make their way to Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, seeking treatment for obstetric fistula, a life-shattering complication of childbirth that was once common in the pre-industrial United States but that is now relegated to the poorest regions of the world.
Gelada expert Chadden Hunter describes his adventures in Ethiopia studying jealous baboons, a robot seductress helps researcher Gail Patricelli flirt with male sage grouses, and Rebecca Safran explains why barn swallows stray from their mates.