With World War II on the horizon, animal keepers in cities around the world had to face one question: What would happen to ...

Many families enjoy an outing to the zoo on a warm summer day. People have been fascinated with exotic animals since ancient Egypt. And although zoos have been delighting visitors for ages, are they ...

A perentie lizard in Dallas, an African penguin in Boston and an Oberhasli goat in Chicago are just a few recent examples of ...

Imagine being trapped in a silent, empty room with nothing to do, day after day. For many animals in captivity, this is not ...

Imagine walking through a zoo where the roar of a lion isn’t a manufactured spectacle, but a glimpse into the complex, ...

Washington Governor Bob Ferguson has signed a bill making Washington the twelfth state in the country to restrict the use of ...

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu forest department is considering captive breeding of the Nilgiri tahr, which is the state animal, to ...

People have been fascinated with exotic animals since ancient Egypt. And although zoos have been delighting visitors for ages, are they really what’s best for the animals? Are zoos ethical?

In the late 1990s, John M. Kinder was vacationing in Berlin. He visited the city’s Tiergarten, or “garden of beasts,” where he stumbled across a memorial to the animal casualties of a World ...

One can now adopt lions, tigers, leopards, hippopotamuses, deer, ostriches, crocodiles, elephants, and other wild animals ...

We have a natural affection for animals. Animals bring out our compassion and curiosity. It’s why zoos and expeditions are so ...