CAIRO -- In most zoos, employees feed and care for the animals. At Egypt's Giza Zoo, police say, workers have been turning them into dinner or selling them as pets.
When two Moroccan camels were butchered in August, the perpetrators left behind only th
KeKe, a 39-year-old elephant suffering from a severe case of intestinal colic, died Monday, Dallas Zoo officials said.
Zookeepers had been treating KeKe for more than 10 days and had consulted with experts around the country, the zoo said. She had bee
At least 15 exhibits feature babies, from rhinos to pottos to lowland gorillas
The city's biggest ooh and aah fest gets under way today as the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden unveils its 22nd annual Zoo Babies, a collection of fur balls with fluffy c
DALLAS (AP) -- A gorilla recognized as the world's oldest in captivity celebrated her 55th birthday by munching down a four-layer frozen fruit cake and banana leaf wrapped treats.
Jenny, the world's oldest gorilla in captivity, has marked her 55th bi
DALLAS -- A gorilla recognized as the world's oldest in captivity celebrated her 55th birthday by munching on a four-layer frozen fruit cake and banana-leaf-wrapped treats.
Jenny's caretakers at the Dallas Zoo say she's having a few joint issues and he
A sick elephant at Woodland Park Zoo has prompted her keepers to shutter the elephant barn temporarily to give the recuperating animal some peace and quiet. | Watoto, a 39-year-old African elephant, apparently has colic, but is on medication and respondin
Ling Ling, a male giant panda at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo, died of chronic heart failure early Wednesday morning at 22 years and seven months old, equivalent to about 70 human years, the zoo said. ''He was lying on his back as he died, giving the impression that
Two white whales perform underwater with their trainers at Harbin's Polar Land on Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Polar Land is renewing its efforts to attract visitors during the upcoming May Day holiday. Visitors are also allowed to interact with sea lions.
MURRAY, Utah -- Doctors performed eye surgery on Eli, a 10-year-old monkey. He can't follow an eye chart, of course. But Eli's caretakers believe he can see better for the first time in years.
Doctors removed cataracts from Eli's eyes Monday and replac
Visitors to the Columbus Zoo got their first look on Tuesday at three female Asian elephants from the
Buffalo zoo.
Buki, Surapa and Jothi took up temporary quarters earlier this month at the 40,000-square-foot elephant exhibit in Columbus while
the Buf
ASHEBORO, N.C. (WGHP) -- The North Carolina Zoo is getting ready to debut its $8 million renovation of the rhinoceros and elephant exhibits, and with a new exhibit come new animals. Rod Hackney tells us more about some new elephants walking around at the
TIGER devoured a mentally ill man who entered the animal's zoo cage in northeast China, local media have reported.
Zhang Yachun disappeared from his home in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province, on March 24 and five days later police told his
One person's rubbish is another ape's bedding, as Auckland Zoo has discovered.
The zoo's nine Borneo orang-utans, aged from 2 to 30, now sleep on fresh shredded paper each week.
Primate team leader Amy Dixon said the primates made nests every night
The Berlin Zoo director who helped turn Germany's rejected polar bear, Knut, into an international celebrity has been put under pressure to resign amid allegations that he had bred and sold animals for slaughter. Bernhard Blaszkiewitz, the director of two
