"He had an easy-going personality and was a favorite of all who met and worked with him over the years,” the Memphis Zoo said in a statement Alexis Jones is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

Kelsey J. Lawrence The Memphis Zoo's hieroglyphics-clad entryway leads to a primate habitat, bear and wolf enclosures in the Teton Trek, a nocturnal animal exhibit, a vast big cat area and the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Memphis Zoo announced Wednesday the loss of a well-loved, long-lived member of their animal family: Kindilan, a southern hairy-nosed wombat. Born in 1998 at the San Diego Zoo ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The farm at the Memphis Zoo just got a little bit cuter. The zoo announced the addition of two baby lambs who were born on St. Patrick's Day. "Born on St. Patrick's Day ...

According to zoo officials, Haley was born Nov. 15, 2002 and named after Halley's Comet. She comes to Detroit from the Memphis Zoo where she has lived since she was 4 years old. Experts from the ...