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Animals at the Louisville Zoo that are susceptible to COVID are received their first dose of the COVID vaccine Friday.

The six cubs were born at Chiba Zoological Park in June.

The baby seal was born on June 17 at Aquarium Umitamago in Japan.

A zoo in Santiago, Chile, is seeking “animal godparents” to help raise funds.

Some animals are enjoying the treat, while others are annoyed by the insect.

A zoo in western France has welcomed a new baby to the giraffe family, following the birth of another calf in January.

A woman was caught on camera inside the spider monkey exhibit at the El Paso Zoo over the weekend.

A zoo in the Netherlands welcomed the birth of a baby rhinoceros on Easter Sunday.

At Zoo Miami, cameras captured the first steps of a giraffe calf born on Friday.

Around the world, scientists and veterinarians are racing to protect animals from the coronavirus — often using the same playbook for minimizing disease spread among people.

Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo just named their new North American river otter pup, who was born on January 20.

Zookeepers in Sydney, Australia, surprised the animals with some early Christmas-themed treats

It took days for officials to finally catch a monkey running freely through the city of Fukuoka, Japan.

Kaavan, dubbed the “world’s loneliest elephant” after languishing alone for years in a Pakistani zoo, has been readied for his flight to a sanctuary in Cambodia and the much-needed company of other elephants

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.

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...