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An animal welfare group says that Kaavan the elephant, who has become a cause celebre for animal activists around the world, will be allowed to leave his Pakistani zoo and transferred to better conditions

The Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, which was once owned by self-proclaimed Tiger King, Joe Exotic, is permanently closed after the USDA revoked its exhibitor license. The Oklahoma zoo was featured in the popular Netflix series “Tiger King.”

There are about 6,000 Cotton-Top tamarins left in the world and the species is considered critically endangered.

What’s next, social distancing for big cats? Zookeepers demanding personal protective equipment?

The Prague Zoo announced the birth of a baby mantled guereza, a unique species of monkey native to Central Africa.

A new $30 million penguin habitat at the Detroit Zoo offers its 80-plus residents new rocks for climbing, waves, snow and better ice conditions, while allowing visitors to come nose-to-beak with the stately birds.

For ten days, the London Zoo kept its newly arrived male Sumatran tiger Asim in a separate enclosure from Melati, the female tiger who was supposed to become his mate. Zoologists gave them time to get used to each other’s presence and smells, and waited for what they felt would be the right time to let them get together. On...

If a teachers’ strike occurs Monday as anticipated, affected students will be offered free admission to the Los Angeles Zoo, the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum and the Petersen Automotive Museum.

Four Cheetah cubs were born at White Oak Conservation last month.

Animals at the London Zoo got to enjoy some early Halloween treats Thursday, with special snacks hidden inside carved pumpkins.

Twelve giant pandas born this year at a panda research center in China were introduced to the public this week.

A rhino in a drive-thru safari park in Mexico was caught on camera chasing an SUV.

A baby giraffe in upstate New York got more people to his first birthday party Sunday than most humans could muster.

The giraffe who may have had the most famous animal birth ever — a world entry streamed live for tens of millions of people by a New York zoo — is turning 1 this month.

Visitors at Brookfield Zoo are getting a first look at one of the zoo’s new additions: a baby wombat. There are only nine of these marsupials in the United States and Brookfield Zoo is now home to three of them.

Bei Bei the panda cub celebrated his second birthday at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 22, with an ice cake and some new toys.

High temperatures at a Finland Wildlife Center were making life uncomfortable for a family of polar bears. However, the child of an employee at a local ski resort had an idea on how to cool them off: the resort could donate excess snow they had saved up from last winter. After some initial hesitation, the bear family seemed much happier…

A five-day-old baby elephant named Joy made her debut at the Houston Zoo on Monday. The Asian elephant calf weighs 305 pounds. Her 26-year-old mother Shanti gave birth to her after a two-year pregnancy.

A hippo gave birth to a baby at the Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark. The baby will spend time acclimating with its mother before zookeepers allow it to venture into deep water.

Chinese President Xi Jinping presented German Chancellor Angela Merkel with two unique gifts ahead of Friday’s G-20 Summit: a pair of giant pandas. The two pandas, Meng Meng and Jiao Qing (which translates to “Sweet Dream” and “Darling”) will be loaned out to the Berlin Zoo for the next 15 years. It had been five years since the zoo last…