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What is the insectivore diet ?

Insectivore diet Insects are the primary food for insectivorous animals. Given their abundance on...

What is the piscivore diet ?

Piscivore diet A piscivorous diet is one that is mainly comprised of fish. Fish-eating...

Animal Welfare

Animal Welfare Over the last decades, this notion has evolved significantly. A number of...

Round-leaved sundew Drosera rotundifolia

Round-leaved sundew The round-leaved sundew is a very small plant, quite unassuming and… “carnivorous”!...

Protecting fauna and flora at the Zoo sauvage

Looking after animals in our care Our Park covers a surface exceeding 1200 acres...

Plant life

Plant life Wild animals don’t live in isolation, but in close interaction with their...

What’s your name?

What’s your name? There are often many names for a single species because of...

Peat-moss Sphagnum

Peat-moss Peat-moss is a very important form of plant life in the boreal ecosystem...

Pitcher-plant Sarracenia purpurea

Pitcher-plant The pitcher-plant is a self-seeding perennial herbaceous plant, some 35 centimetres (14 in.)...

Gray reindeer lichen Cladina rangiferina

Gray reindeer lichen The gray reindeer lichen is a species of lichen that is...

Jack pine Pinus banksiana

Jack pine The Pinus genus includes 95 species of tree and shrub distributed throughout...

Trembling aspen Populus tremuloides

Trembling aspen The trembling aspen is a commercial tree species that we find throughout...

Tamarack Larix laricina

Tamarack The tamarack is an unusual conifer since it loses its leaves, or needles,...

Labrador tea Ledum groenlandicum

Labrador tea Labrador tea, of the Ericaceae or heath family (related to the blueberry)...

Canada yew and Western yew Taxus canadensis / Taxus brevifolia

Canada yew and Western yew The Taxaceae family includes only 8 to 10 species...