Zoo

A zoo in China was accused of disguising dogs to trick visitors into thinking they were pandas because the zoo did not have the real thing.

Zoo workers at Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium in Omaha, Nebraska, removed 70 coins from an American alligator’s belly on Thursday.

An Alaska Airlines flight attendant is being praised for helping rescue some rare creatures during a flight in August.

The San Antonio Zoo has a clever idea for people wanting to forget their failed relationships on Valentine’s Day.

Orlando, Florida’s Gatorland has made history with the birth of an extremely rare white leucistic alligator – one of just eight in the entire world.

The Minnesota Zoo has taken in a pair of small sea otters that recently experienced distress in the wilds of Alaska.

Severe flooding on Friday in New York City allowed a sea lion to escape from its enclosure at the Central Park Zoo.

An elephant at Berlin Zoo is making a big impression on everyone, thanks to how she enjoys snack time.

A 90-year-old tortoise has fathered three hatchlings at the Houston Zoo, an event which surprised everyone.

An owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo on February 2 has now learned to hunt for its own food, alleviating some concerns about how it would fare outside of captivity.

Police in Dallas announced they discovered a pair of emperor tamarin monkeys, believed to have been “intentionally taken” from the Dallas Zoo on Monday, in an abandoned house.

Officials noticed a cut in the fencing of another animal enclosure at the Dallas Zoo recently after the search for a missing clouded leopard.

A dog became stuck in the gorilla enclosure recently at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in California as bystanders watched in shock.

A three-year-old girl was apparently dropped into a bear’s enclosure while visiting a zoo in Uzbekistan by her mother, reports said Monday.

A Florida sheriff’s deputy fatally shot a Malayan tiger at a zoo after it attacked a man who put his arm into the enclosure, authorities say.

A Peruvian family adopted what it thought was a pet dog, but after it began attacking neighbors’ chickens, the family learned it was a fox.

Gorillas at Zoo Atlanta have tested positive for coronavirus after apparently contracting the virus from a vaccinated zoo worker.

For many years, visitors at ZooTampa in Florida were able to get close to and touch the facility’s stingrays, but on Thursday the rays living in the touch tank were found dead.

A zoo in China waited nearly three weeks to alert the public that it had accidentally released three leopard cubs into the local environment for fear of losing tourist revenue during a recent public holiday, Singapore’s Mothership news site reported on Tuesday.

The San Antonio Zoo has concocted the perfect remedy for the brokenhearted this Valentine’s Day season.

Six-year-old Andy Soulard raised approximately $28,000 for the Oakland Zoo last week, in hopes of keeping its gates open.

A violent fight broke out between multiple teenagers on Saturday afternoon at a zoo in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

The New York Police Department (NYPD) is asking for help in locating the woman who jumped into the African lion enclosure at the Bronx Zoo on Saturday. 

A lioness is beaten with sticks while her cubs are dragged away — a Gazan zoo closed after a long campaign has reopened, with conditions seemingly as bad as ever.

Activists have shed light on the disturbing fate of animals held at the Parque Zoologico Prudencio Navarro on Spain’s Costa de la Luz.

Fourteen people were injured, and at least two animals were killed by enormous hailstones when a storm struck the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo on Monday.

On a trip to Cairo’s International Garden municipal park, Mahmoud Sarhan spotted something a little bit strange about their zebra’s stripes.

The Kansas City Zoo initiated a “code red” alert when a rhinoceros escaped its enclosure, causing officials to ask guests and employees to shelter in place.

Two owners of a zoo in Alberta, Canada, are facing charges for allegedly taking a young bear through a Dairy Queen drive-thru to get ice cream.

LONDON (AP) — London Zoo officials say a fire Saturday morning left one aardvark dead and four meerkats missing.

Venezuela’s opposition published photos this weekend of men butchering a dead dog on the streets of Caracas, preparing the meat for cooking in a nation that has been forced to take increasingly extreme measures to avoid a famine.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has dismissed reports of a starving African elephant, the only one in the country, in a nation that lost twenty pounds on average in 2016, claiming there is a right-wing conspiracy to create a “media show… to demoralize the people” into no longer supporting socialism.

Local officials in Britain have refused to renew the license of a zoo where nearly 500 animals have died in the last four years.

BERLIN (AP) — German police say a Humboldt penguin has been stolen out of its cage from a zoo in the southwestern city of Mannheim, and zookeepers say the bird could easily die if it’s not returned soon.

Gaza’s last tiger left the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave Wednesday with monkeys, emus, a porcupine and other animals from a zoo dubbed the “world’s worst”, heading for a new life in South Africa and elsewhere.

A California comedian who cavorts on social media under the name “Obvious Plant” left a series of fake “Animal Facts” placards around the Los Angeles Zoo this weekend, delighting some and confusing others with the offbeat claims about the creatures around them.