Photos: new zoo exhibit dramatically displays real threat to Asian turtle

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By Jeremy HanceMay 4, 2015, 12:19 pm137 pts
Usually animal pens in zoos are designed to resemble a species' native habitat: lions in sprawling savanna, pandas in bamboo forests, and crocodiles in mangroves. But a new pen at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL)'s London Zoo is meant to dramatically highlight not a species' habitat, but it's biggest…

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