An Oklahoma federal jury convicted zookeeper “Joe Exotic” on all charges Tuesday of trying to hire a hitman to murder a rival animal sanctuary operator in Florida and for killing five tigers under his care.
Read moreThe German soccer club Hertha bestowed its name, and a monogrammed ball to match, Tuesday on the 4-month-old polar bear that is stealing hearts at Berlin’s Tierpark zoo.
Read moreAn extremely rare albino penguin has made its debut at Gdansk Zoo in northern Poland.
Read moreAllowed to venture out of her cage for the first time, a 3-month-old polar bear made a wet and wild debut Friday at the Berlin Tierpark zoo.
Read moreDescribing instances where they had to discipline two Asian elephants that have lived for decades a Massachusetts zoo, current and former workers testified Monday that they used the minimum force necessary to curb bad behavior.
Read moreA 17-year-old fugitive monkey has been reunited with her daughter at a Berlin zoo after being caught at a railway station in the German capital.
Read moreA witness told authorities a gate blocked by a ball at a North Carolina animal preserve allowed a lion to reach three people at the start of a fatal attack, biting one intern’s ankle and pulling her into the enclosure, according to a medical examiner’s report.
Read moreTouting the cub’s “bearish female power,” the Tierpark zoo in Berlin, Germany, said Friday it was finally able to perform a medical checkup that determined the sex of a baby born in December to Tonja the polar bear.
Read moreA group of chimpanzees at the Belfast Zoo used branches weakened by a storm to make a ladder and escape from their enclosure Saturday, zookeepers say.
Read moreA federal judge in California ruled Friday that Ndume, companion of Koko the gorilla who died in 2018, must be returned to the Cincinnati Zoo in a long standing custody battle over where it will reside.
Read moreBasel Zoo in northwestern Switzerland said Thursday that a paternity test on a baby orangutan shows she wasn’t fathered by the male in her enclosure.
Read moreDespite warnings that a 37-year-old ape might die if transferred to an Ohio zoo, a federal judge said Thursday he can only settle matters of law, not what’s best for the well-being of the late Koko the gorilla’s longtime friend Ndume.
Read moreReturning two penguins to the zoo where they haven’t been seen since November, police in Nottinghamshire, England, said Friday that a 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of burglary and theft in the case.
Read moreBerlin’s unwanted Christmas trees have ended their days as a festive snack for zoo elephants and stocking fillers for some of their fellow residents.
Read moreAlbuquerque’s zoo has received another Mexican gray wolf as part of an international recovery effort that includes breeding the endangered animals in captivity to ensure their genetic viability.
Read moreCelebrating the advancement of its effort to make the Bronx Zoo free one of its Asian elephants, the Nonhuman Rights Project said Monday that Happy is the world’s first elephant to secure a habeas corpus order.
Read moreIt wasn’t grand theft. It was tiny. But the snatching of a baby meerkat from a zoo has not only become a major story in the Australian city of Perth, it has led to the arrest of three people.
Read moreFighting to end the 41-year captivity at the Bronx Zoo of an Asian elephant named Happy, a nonprofit says the legal battle it started has been languishing in a court west of Rochester for over a month.
Read moreAlbanian authorities have forced their way into a private zoo and removed 12 animals due to fears they were malnourished.
Read moreA custody battle over a 37-year-old gorilla hit federal court Thursday when the Cincinnati Zoo sued an animal psychologist and her foundation for refusing to return Ndume, a longtime friend of the recently deceased gorilla Koko.
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