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Celebrate summer in style at ZOOFARI 2025, the Saint Louis Zoo’s biggest adults-only fundraiser. Enjoy live music, 30+ local ...
After tornadoes downed multiple trees at the Saint Louis Zoo two weeks ago, the zoo staff decided to make the best of the ...
The St. Louis Zoo was right outside the path of an EF-3 tornado and managed to keep hundreds of animals, insects, reptiles ...
After extensive efforts to clear and remove storm damage, the Saint Louis Zoo will reopen to the public on Monday.
ST. LOUIS — The Missouri Botanical ... eliminate as part of his administration’s cuts. The zoo was one of two dozen organizations to sign a March 20 letter urging Congress to protect the ...
ST. LOUIS — Raja the elephant has been one of the biggest attractions — literally and figuratively — at the St. Louis Zoo for decades. Now, he's moving away. The zoo announced Thursday that ...
An Andean bear at the Saint Louis Zoo is back in his enclosure after escaping his habitat for a second time this month. The bear, named Ben, broke out of his outdoor habitat Thursday afternoon ...
After escaping twice from the St. Louis Zoo, a Houdini-like Andean bear named Ben will be moving to a Texas zoo, where staff hope a moat will keep him safely enclosed. Ben made headlines breaking ...
The American burying beetle is no longer found in Illinois, but researchers with the Saint Louis Zoo are working to bring the environmentally significant species back to Missouri and surrounding ...
Thursday's incident marked the second time the bear escaped this month. Ben, the Saint Louis Zoo’s resident Andean Bear, has had a busy February. On Thursday, the 4-year-old bear escaped his ...
ST. LOUIS – The Saint Louis Zoo has closed two exhibits “until further notice” as a precaution after a wild wood duck found dead on zoo grounds last week tested positive for avian influenza.