Humans aren’t the only ones trying to beat the summer heat here in North Dakota. When blistering days like these roll through the state, zookeepers here at the Roosevelt Park Zoo have to ...

Ziggy the giraffe was born at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Florida. Today, nearly 15, she is matriarch of giraffes at Milwaukee County Zoo.

The walls were made of plywood and sheet metal and decorated with taxidermied animals, mostly African hoofstock like antelope, wildebeests, and water buffalo.

In a post on Facebook, the zoo said it was the first time in 30 years that they bred and hatched three flamingo chicks successfully.

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Taylor, who joined the Milwaukee County Zoo staff in 2015, is a large mammal zookeeper of African hoofstock, meaning giraffes, hippos and rhinos.

She's sharing her experiences in East Africa so far, including the countless natural wonders found in Rwanda, Kenya and Zanzibar.

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AFRICAN AMERICANS. Cleveland's African American community is almost as old as the city itself. GEORGE PEAKE, the first Black settler, arrived in 1809 and by 1860 there were 799 Black people living in ...