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The entrance sign for the Patricia and Byron J. Gambulos ZooZeum at the Oklahoma City Zoo, a large dark sign in white and orange lettering mounted above four framed panels on the zoo's history, with dry ornamental grass in the foreground.

Events

The OKC Zoo’s New Art Exhibit Includes Pieces You Smell

North America

Louisville Zoo Closes Bird Areas After a Wild Goose Case

A large illuminated giraffe lantern arches over a walkway at dusk at Zoo Atlanta as a toddler in a knit hat, riding on an adult's shoulders, looks up at it, with more glowing lanterns along the path behind.

Events

Zoo Atlanta’s Lantern Festival Opens November 21

The entrance sign for the Patricia and Byron J. Gambulos ZooZeum at the Oklahoma City Zoo, a large dark sign in white and orange lettering mounted above four framed panels on the zoo's history, with dry ornamental grass in the foreground.

Events October 22, 2026

The OKC Zoo’s New Art Exhibit Includes Pieces You Smell

The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden has opened a student art exhibition inside its ZooZeum, and ...

North America October 22, 2026

Louisville Zoo Closes Bird Areas After a Wild Goose Case

Louisville Zoo has temporarily closed several bird areas after a wild Canada goose found sick on zoo ...

A large illuminated giraffe lantern arches over a walkway at dusk at Zoo Atlanta as a toddler in a knit hat, riding on an adult's shoulders, looks up at it, with more glowing lanterns along the path behind.

Events October 22, 2026

Zoo Atlanta’s Lantern Festival Opens November 21

Tickets are on sale for IllumiNights at the Zoo, the lantern festival Zoo Atlanta runs through the ...

Six bonobos sit along two felled logs fitted with metal puzzle boxes at Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary, several of them holding thin sticks used to reach food inside the puzzles.

Africa & Middle East October 21, 2026

Bonobos Are Being Watched to See Who Copies Whom

An adult orangutan with long reddish-brown hair lies on her back on pale striped bedding and straw, looking straight at the camera. A very young infant orangutan with sparse hair and a grey face lies on her chest, one small hand gripping her hair and its eyes closed. Green browse leaves on a cut branch lie beside her.

Africa & Middle East October 21, 2026

Jerusalem Biblical Zoo’s First Orangutan Is Named Cahaya

Two chimpanzees rest on a tall wooden climbing frame in a sunlit, leafy outdoor habitat at Tulsa Zoo while three guests watch from a path behind a low wooden fence.

Conservation Projects October 21, 2026

Fifty Years Accredited, and Tulsa Was in the First 11

Zoo Babies

A downy brown African penguin chick standing on a blue towel beside a pink plush penguin toy in an off-habitat brooder

North America October 15, 2026

An African Penguin Chick Hatched at the Caldwell Zoo

An African penguin chick has hatched at the Caldwell Zoo in Tyler, Texas. The zoo announced the ...

A young giraffe standing on a sandy yard beside a pool and fallen logs, looking toward the camera.

North America October 12, 2026

A Yearling Giraffe Named Onduli Joins Birmingham

The Birmingham Zoo has a fourth giraffe. Onduli, a one-year-old male calf, arrived from the Dallas Zoo ...

North & South American News

The entrance sign for the Patricia and Byron J. Gambulos ZooZeum at the Oklahoma City Zoo, a large dark sign in white and orange lettering mounted above four framed panels on the zoo's history, with dry ornamental grass in the foreground.

Events

The OKC Zoo’s New Art Exhibit Includes Pieces You Smell

North America

Louisville Zoo Closes Bird Areas After a Wild Goose Case

A large illuminated giraffe lantern arches over a walkway at dusk at Zoo Atlanta as a toddler in a knit hat, riding on an adult's shoulders, looks up at it, with more glowing lanterns along the path behind.

Events

Zoo Atlanta’s Lantern Festival Opens November 21

Two chimpanzees rest on a tall wooden climbing frame in a sunlit, leafy outdoor habitat at Tulsa Zoo while three guests watch from a path behind a low wooden fence.

Conservation Projects

Fifty Years Accredited, and Tulsa Was in the First 11

European News

Europe

Nobody Knows How to Measure a Fish’s Welfare

A broad stone staircase of several flights rises between stone balustrades at Pairi Daiza, its steps planted with beds of red and purple foliage, framed by mature green trees with the tower of Cambron Abbey visible at the upper right.

Europe

Pairi Daiza Restores Cambron Abbey’s 1776 Staircase

A squirrel monkey with a golden-yellow back, pale face and dark cap grips a thin branch with one hand, surrounded by broad green leaves inside a planted indoor enclosure.

Europe

Nine Squirrel Monkeys Move Into Hagenbeck’s Jungle

A small restored steam locomotive with an orange buffer beam stands under steam in the open doorway of a timber engine shed at Pairi Daiza, a Belgian flag mounted beside its headlamp, with a member of staff in a blue railway uniform and cap standing on either side of it.

Europe

A 126-Year-Old Steam Engine Runs Again at Pairi Daiza

African & Middle Eastern News

Six bonobos sit along two felled logs fitted with metal puzzle boxes at Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary, several of them holding thin sticks used to reach food inside the puzzles.

Africa & Middle East

Bonobos Are Being Watched to See Who Copies Whom

An adult orangutan with long reddish-brown hair lies on her back on pale striped bedding and straw, looking straight at the camera. A very young infant orangutan with sparse hair and a grey face lies on her chest, one small hand gripping her hair and its eyes closed. Green browse leaves on a cut branch lie beside her.

Africa & Middle East

Jerusalem Biblical Zoo’s First Orangutan Is Named Cahaya

A crowd of girls in bright orange polo shirts stand close together outdoors, laughing, with a dozen hands reaching in to hold a black planting bag containing a young tree seedling with broad green leaves. The shirts carry printed Portuguese text about girls' rights and ending early marriage, and a circular Gorongosa badge on the sleeve. Trees and open sky are behind them.

Africa & Middle East

Zoo Boise Funds the Girls’ Clubs That Just Turned Ten

A pair of bar charts titled Predict context in elephants from EB family and Predict context in non-EB elephants. Teal, yellow and orange bars show classification accuracy between roughly 0.19 and 0.46 for single rumbles, chorus to chorus and single to chorus tests, each bar rising above a dashed predicted distribution baseline and marked with one, two or three asterisks for statistical significance.

Africa & Middle East

Oakland Zoo Helped Pay for the Elephant Chorus Study

Asia & Australian News

Asia

Ten Sihek Are Going Back to Palmyra Atoll

A group of khulan, sandy-coloured wild asses, stand in green steppe grassland with open plains behind them.

Asia

Wild Asses Return to Eastern Mongolia After 65 Years

A Pallas's cat looks toward the camera, its wide flat face framed by long white whiskers and thick gray fur.

Asia

Groundbreaking Discovery: Pallas’s Cat Found on Mount Everest

A blue crane walks through open grassland, its long trailing wing feathers sweeping behind it.

Africa & Middle East

The Importance of Crane Conservation and Its Benefits for People and the Planet

Zoo Rescues

Four manatees rest together in a green-lit rehabilitation pool, one of them noticeably paler and scarred, seen from above the waterline.

Conservation Projects

Ten Manatees Swapped Places Between Ohio and Florida

On Monday, October 12, four rescued manatees left Ohio for Florida. On Wednesday, six more flew the other way. Ten ...

Mr Zoo News

Two young spider monkeys sitting together on a branch, the smaller one leaning against the larger, in an indoor habitat at Hogle Zoo.

Conservation Projects

Confiscated at the Border, Now Climbing in Salt Lake

Two young spider monkeys who were taken from the wild and seized from traffickers at ...

Mr Zoo News

Conservation Projects

Zoo Visitors Gave These Parrots Somewhere to Nest

Conservation Projects

The 640 Manatees You Helped Save Without Knowing

An empty stretch of beach on South Padre Island under a cloudy sky, with surf breaking on the left, eroded grass-topped dunes rising on the right, and a line of pelicans flying low over the sand

Conservation Projects

New England Aquarium Follows Its Turtles to Texas

A tiger lies anesthetized on a treatment table surrounded by a dozen veterinary and dental staff in a clinic room.

Eight Rescued Big Cats Get Root Canals in Two Days

A polar bear swims past an underwater viewing window as a young girl presses both hands to the glass and looks up at it.

Orphaned Polar Bear Cub Arrives in Winnipeg

A Kemp's ridley sea turtle rests on wet sand with a small transmitter mounted on its shell, facing the water.

Kemp’s Ridley Turtle Pancake Returns to the Atlantic

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