A pair of critically endangered giant tortoises aged about 100 years old have become first-time parents at Philadelphia Zoo. The zoo said this week it was "overjoyed" at the arrival of four ...

The NEW Zoo & Adventure Park said the animals — named Louie and Ophelia — got out through a "small breach in buried fencing" Two river otters have escaped from a zoo in Wisconsin and remain ...

A baby vulture at a New York zoo is being fed not by another bird but by a hand puppet — a decades-old technique used to ensure the chick doesn’t identify too closely with its human handlers.

The Berlin zoo on Friday presented Fatou with a basket of fruit and vegetables ahead of her official birthday, which falls on Sunday. Fatou was born in 1957 and came to the zoo in what was then ...

At the National Zoo, the new pandas, still too young for romance, have nevertheless given welcome indications that they are interested in each other, staff members say. The female bleated at the ...

Four orangutans had to be tranquilized and moved back into their enclosure after a malfunctioning door allowed them to escape into a service hallway Wednesday at the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance.

When Phillip Sevy opened an email from Utah’s Hogle Zoo advertising this year’s ZooBrew events, they weren’t happy. The list of 21-and-up evenings lacked an event the zoo had hosted during ...

Animal advocates held a small protest on Sunday outside the Los Angeles Zoo opposing the relocation of two Asian elephants to a zoo in Oklahoma. Participants said moving Billy and Tina ...

Five apes at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens died in 2024 from a shigella outbreak. The outbreak devastated zoo staff, who worked tirelessly to treat the animals and contain the infection.

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