Therapy animals Pringle and Widget, two Humboldt penguins from Heythrop Zoological Gardens, paid a visit to a care home to make friends with the people living there.

A Utica Zoo prezoodential election that will surely go down in hiss-tory has ended with victory for President Spot, a Burmese ...

Woodland Park Zoo will feature two giant tortoises for its "Wild Encounters" exhibit, and visitors will soon be able to touch them.

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Overwhelmingly, commenters remarked on her adorableness with @Swish chiming in, "So cute!!!!" It's amazing how tiny this ...

Natural Bridge Zoo was ordered to hand over 71 animals to the state. Owners Karl and Deborah Mogensen appealed the decision to a state-level court.

It’s a baby only a mother could love. A rare wide-eyed pygmy slow loris — with eyes as big as its ears and a sleep cycle that would drive even the most patient parents bonkers — has become the first ...

“Donkey” was born in 2001 in St. John, North Dakota. He was purchased by Pat and Kim Schmaltz of Gardner, North Dakota. When they later moved within the city limits of Fargo, they donated Donkey to ...

GILMER COUNTY, Ga. — Cherokee County Fire and Emergency Services’ Technical Rescue Team recently traveled to Gilmer County to help with a specialized, rare animal rescue involving an injured mammoth ...

Work began Wednesday on projects affecting the zoo's white rhinoceros habitat, the McGovern Giraffe Habitat and Shani Market, a popular food stop tucked between the two animal exhibits. The zoo said ...

A former magazine executive who switched career paths to become the head of a donkey sanctuary in Mendocino County is returning to the world of media, this time in front of the camera, as the star of ...