DAILY QUICK READ - JUNE 1, 2016

Jane Goodall offers her condolences to the Cincinnati Zoo.  

No winners in this tragic event.

Primatologist Jane Goodall has passed on her sympathies to Cincinatti Zoo over the shooting of their gorilla Harumbe.

The renowned British primate expert had reached out to the zoo as it faces fierce criticism over the shooting of 17-year-old gorilla Harumbe after a young boy fell in his enclosure.

Goodall, along with other animal experts, has offered her sympathies to the zoo in a private conversation with director Thomas Maynard.

Maynard had said the four-year-old child - who has not been named - was in imminent danger because the gorilla was confused and acting erratically.

Don't Buddhists monks value life?

Apparently the profit motive is even more powerful at the "tiger temple".

Wildlife authorities in Thailand have raided a Buddhist temple where tigers are kept, taking away 40 of the animals by Tuesday and vowing to confiscate scores more in response to global pressure over wildlife trafficking.

The Buddhist temple in Kanchanaburi province west of Bangkok had more than 130 tigers and had become a tourist destination where visitors took selfies with tigers and bottle-fed cubs.

The temple promoted itself as a wildlife sanctuary, but in recent years it had been investigated for suspected links to wildlife trafficking and animal abuse.

The wildlife protecting team is continuing raid at the temple to free the captive tigers.

Elk isn't interest in being in your selfie.

People apparently don't understand that the word "wild" is part of the word wildlife.

Wildlife guide Jody Tibbitts added to the collection of bizarre human behavior caught on tape in Yellowstone National Park this year when he witnessed a cow elk butt a woman who got too close.

As he was explaining the natural scene near Yellowstone’s West Thumb, Tibbitts saw a woman approach an elk. He began to warn her of the danger. It was too late. The elk, which might have just given birth to a calf, rushed the photographer and left her sprawling on the ground. 

Video here.

Bees never cease to amaze.

Flowers generate weak electric fields, and a new study shows that bumblebees can actually sense those electric fields using the tiny hairs on their fuzzy little bodies.

"The bumblebees can feel that hair bend and use that feeling to tell the difference between flowers," says Gregory Sutton, a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.

People used to think that perceiving natural electric fields was something that animals only did in water. Sharks and eels can do it, for example. The platypus and spiny anteaters were the only land critters known have electroreceptive organs, but these have to be submerged in water in order to work.

Then, a few years ago, Sutton and his colleagues showed that bumblebees could sense electric fields in the air.

"There is, all the time, a background electric field in the atmosphere," says Sutton. "Any plant that's connected to the ground will generate its own electric field just by interactions with the atmosphere."