Three women are under investigation in Germany for launching paper sky lanterns for the new year which apparently ignited a devastating fire that killed more than 30 animals at a zoo, officials said Thursday.
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The hatching of two storks on a bamboo platform in a remote Indian zoo has raised hopes that one of the world’s most threatened bird species can be saved, experts say.
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The Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City is celebrating its second baby giraffe of the year, already as tall as a full-grown human.
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Slamming the “fetid and dystopic conditions” of a Maryland zoo, a federal judge ordered Thursday that any animals that managed to survive must be transferred to a sanctuary.
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Eight fluffy macaroni penguin chicks have been born at the Kansas City Zoo.
Read moreA rare southern white rhino was born at a zoo in Belgium, boosting efforts to save the endangered species, the park said on Monday.
Read moreA 33-year-old orangutan granted legal personhood by a judge in Argentina is settling into her new surroundings at the Center for Great Apes in central Florida.
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More than 60 endangered turtles have disappeared from a zoo in Japan’s southernmost province in a suspected theft, officials said Thursday.
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An Orange County, California, man who broke into a zoo after hours to steal North America’s oldest ring-tailed lemur to keep as a pet was sentenced to three months in federal prison, prosecutors said Monday.
Read moreHappy the elephant, whether she’s actually happy or not, will remain in the Bronx Zoo at least for the next few months.
Read moreThe Paris zoo’s latest attraction is a brainless, eyeless, single-celled organism with no limbs or stomach but more than 700 genders.
Read moreFrench authorities have detained for questioning a man suspected of keeping a wild panther in an apartment from where it was rescued, only to be stolen from a zoo, legal sources said.
Read moreAmerica’s oldest zoo-kept elephants can stay right where they are in Massachusetts, a federal judge ruled, rejecting a push to have the prodigious pachyderms moved to a roaming Tennessee sanctuary.
Read moreJackson, Mississippi, sued the Jackson Zoological Society and its directors, claiming the zoo owes it $6 million for water, and seeking an order prohibiting the zoo, from removing any personal property or animals from the zoo, in Hinds County Court.
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A zoo in Berlin is celebrating the arrival of two panda cubs, the first time one of the rare mammals has given birth in Germany.
Read moreThe regulator of global wildlife trade will impose a near-total ban on sending African elephants captured from the wild to zoos after a final vote on the issue on Tuesday.
Read moreA Connecticut appeals court affirmed dismissal of a habeas petition from the Nonhuman Rights Project on behalf of three elephants confined in a zoo, as “the court reasonably found that elephants are not persons and lack standing to file a habeas petition.”
Read moreAfter a federal judge found a roadside zoo in Maryland violated the Endangered Species Act by not giving adequate care to a tiger that is now dead, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said the ruling should send a clear message to other wildlife facilities that may be mistreating animals.
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