A new study comparing wild and zoo-housed Sumatran orangutans reveals that life in a zoo significantly alters how orangutans interact with their environment. Researchers analyzed over 12,000 instances ...

Among the latest contenders in the fight against drug-resistant infections is a striking, black beetle with fiery red spots and orange-tipped antennae. Known for spending much of its life ...

Imagine walking into a zoo in 2050 and finding no cages, no bars, and no glass walls separating you from the wonders of the ...

As is the practice every year during this part of summer, the zoo management ... cool wave to the animals inside. “These apart, we have given a reflective coating of cool white paint over ...

We were just different types of chimps,” says Clarke, team leader in the zoo’s African Plains, an expansive area within the beloved Phoenix Park facility that is home to giraffes, white rhinos ...

Pupy, who arrived at the Palermo zoo in 1993, is the latest animal transferred from the Buenos Aires ecological park. Already enjoying the Brazil Elephant Sanctuary are five Asian elephants ...

Big Cat Tracks will integrate the existing landscape of the park space into wooded ... new climbing structures. The Zoo also plans to bring in new Eurasian species of animals such as Sika deer, tufted ...

12 News spoke with Hutchinson Animal Services about what happened and why the photo at the center of the discussion is not what it seems. This all began when Hutchinson resident Travis Stockton ...

A pack of late-night vandals broke into a Northern Virginia zoo, damaged animal enclosures, and took work vehicles for a joyride — all while terrifying the animals, officials said. The chaos unfolded ...

The Quad Cities' zoo has plenty of fun events in store for this season, including some new animals and the reopening of the big cat and eagle exhibits. Bishop T.D. Jakes steps down from Dallas ...

For the zoo's ring-tailed lemur troop, keepers tied small, colorful boxes to tree branches, making the lemurs use their brains to get hold of the sweetcorn treats hidden inside. Hayley Jakeman, Animal ...

Pupy is just the latest in a series of over 1,000 wild animals — elephants, as well as lions, tigers, bears and apes — that the Buenos Aires “ecopark” has sent to sanctuaries abroad since its 2016 ...