Enjoy a look back at some incredible and heartwarming stories about the Smithsonian National Zoo’s animals and the people who care for them. Mike Bock No two days at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and ...

Get ready for Valentine’s Day by learning how zoo matchmakers use science to “swipe right” for conservation. Mike Bock Male Andean bear Quito (above) has fathered two cubs at the Smithsonian’s ...

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Parrots, baboons and lions joined an exodus of nearly one million humans fleeing the Israeli invasion of the city of Rafah last month. Fathi Jumaa, 60, owner of the Rafah Zoo ...

The Erie Zoo has several new animals, including a male black-and-white ruffed lemur, two female Père David’s deer and two female kangaroos. The zoo will host Glow Wild, a Chinese lantern festival, on ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Beau the bongo loves his mate Zahara. “It was love at first sight,” lead keeper Amanda Klein said of the two bongos (antelopes) at the Great Plains Zoo. “He loves being ...

Even before their keepers enter the night house, the indoor enclosure where they sometimes sleep, Oakland Zoo brown bears Rubicon and Truckee know something is up. “They know we’re out here because ...

Months after the U.S. Justice Department confiscated 146 exotic animals from Jeff Lowe, today's decision ramps up pressure on animal exhibitors across online platforms. Jeff and Lauren Lowe sit with ...

It went from one of the worst zoos in America to a beloved menagerie filled with disabled and elderly native species. Now it may close for good. It went from one of the worst zoos in America to a ...