One family caught a moment where a lion was a little too engaged with a young visitor who happened to pass by her enclosure.

Brian Barczyk. First Look at Reptile Enclosures at The Zoo! Posted: December 30, 2024 | Last updated: December 30, 2024. Moving our giant reptile enclosures!

She had a flippin’ good time! A sea lion at the Central Park Zoo enjoyed a brief taste of freedom Friday when she hitched a ride on floodwaters and swam out of her pool enclosure as the Big ...

A Saturday at the Cincinnati Zoo in 2016 quickly turned into chaos when a boy slipped into a gorilla enclosure and a 450-lb. ape named Harambe began dragging him. To save the boy’s life, zoo ...

Unfortunately, Feldman says that bad zoos are far more common than good zoos. Unethical zoos keep animals in small enclosures with no forms of enrichment. ©Mircea Moira/Shutterstock.com ...

A serval at the Erie Zoo watches visitors from inside its enclosure in Erie on March 5, 2024. Generations of children throughout northwestern Pennsylvania have enjoyed encounters with animals like ...

A zookeeper was injured over the weekend at the Jackson Zoo.A city spokesperson said there was an incident on Saturday inside the monkey enclosure. The zookeeper was caring for the monkey when the ...

Zoos have acted as safe havens for many endangered species. ... critics still feel that "good zoos" are in the minority. Among the 2,400 animal enclosures licensed by the U.S. Department of ...

A New York City-born bear who escaped from his enclosure at the St. Louis Zoo twice last month is being moved to a facility in Texas — where he will be surrounded by a moat, officials announced ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Blank Park Zoo has officially begun the expansion of its lion enclosure with the groundbreaking of the Marjorie A. Foster Lion Conservation Center, which will triple the space ...

The new British zoo standards, effective from 2027, replace advisory language with enforceable requirements, mandating improved accommodation, larger and more naturalistic enclosures—especially ...

The staff at the Hilo zoo is urging visitors to keep their objects and hands away from the animals at all times after a rising number of foreign items have been found in some enclosures.