From the welfare point of view it is wrong to keep an animal in a zoo if the animal has a less pleasant life than it would have outside the zoo. Reasons why people think keeping animals in zoos is ...

Cute features in babies and animals are more than just amusing—they trigger powerful evolutionary responses that help our ...

Spanning 100 acres in Balboa Park, the San Diego Zoo is not only one of the largest zoos in the country, it's also home to one of the largest collections of rare and endangered animals in the ...

Lion handler Babaji Daule was attacked by the animal while he was working at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library Wildlife Park in Abeokuta, Nigeria. The zoo reportedly said that 35-year-old ...

It can even be used as a kind of pregnancy test, helping zoos to develop their conservation breeding programmes and boost the numbers of endangered animals. Chester Zoo is the only zoo in Europe ...

A hit with locals and visiting families, the Blank Park Zoo sits on 49 acres, 22 of which are home to animal facilities and exhibits. Nearly 1,500 animals representing more than 100 species live here.

A zoo director in northern Germany has even admitted that some animals might soon have to be fed to others, if the zoo is to survive. "We've listed the animals we'll have to slaughter first ...

Mark Gould and his toddler son, Tommy, have been visiting the Roger Williams Park Zoo since Tommy was born. On their first trip, an endangered snow leopard came up to the edge of its exhibit and ...

ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - Some of the animals seized by investigators from the Natural Bridge Zoo will be returned, a court has ruled. The ruling came down late Friday afternoon. According ...

The video showed two animals with curly tails, a sign that they were not pandas. The zoo initially tried to deny the ...

The Oakland Zoo threw a goodbye party for Osh the elephant on Saturday afternoon. Osh, 30, is the zoo’s last remaining elephant but will soon be sent to Tennessee’s Elephant Sanctuary ...

Milton made landfall on Wednesday night as a Category 3 storm near Siesta Key, just south of the zoo at Lowry Park, close to downtown Tampa. Zookeepers finished corralling all the animals on ...