The National Zoo: steps forward and back

All had been relatively quiet on the National Zoo front recently, but there's still the odd bit of sad news like this: the zoo's only camel, an 18 year old bactrian male that was thought to be healthy, died Monday.

To keep up with zoo news, I've bookmarked the Washington Post's National Zoo page. Most of it, I'm not too interested in -- panda mating does nothing for me -- but occasionally, there's something linked to the management issues I wrote about for a while, like a Jan 05 report that really, the biggest animal problems at the zoo spring from H. sapiens.