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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

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

The Tisch Family Zoological Gardens, which almost everybody calls the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, has orangutans on exhibit ...

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 October 21, 2026

Zoo Boise Funds the Girls’ Clubs That Just Turned Ten

On 11 October 2026 Gorongosa National Park marked the International Day of the Girl in Vunduzi, an ...

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 October 21, 2026

Oakland Zoo Helped Pay for the Elephant Chorus Study

When several elephants rumble at the same time, the overlapping sound is not just a pile of ...

A giant illuminated penguin sculpture wearing a red bow tie towers over visitors in silhouette at night during LumiNature at Philadelphia Zoo, with red-lit trees and a building behind it.

Events October 21, 2026

Philadelphia Zoo Lights Up for Santa Claws on Nov. 19

Five performers from the Sirens of New Orleans pose together in mermaid costumes with shell and starfish headdresses in a blue-lit room at Audubon Aquarium during the 2025 Scales and Ales.

Events October 21, 2026

The Only Marine Rescue in Louisiana Throws a Party

Schoolchildren step off a yellow school bus and walk toward the entrance of The Florida Aquarium in Tampa, past a stingray sculpture beneath the building glass atrium.

Conservation Projects October 21, 2026

Tampa Voters Bought 13,000 Kids an Aquarium Trip

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

A giant illuminated penguin sculpture wearing a red bow tie towers over visitors in silhouette at night during LumiNature at Philadelphia Zoo, with red-lit trees and a building behind it.

Events

Philadelphia Zoo Lights Up for Santa Claws on Nov. 19

Five performers from the Sirens of New Orleans pose together in mermaid costumes with shell and starfish headdresses in a blue-lit room at Audubon Aquarium during the 2025 Scales and Ales.

Events

The Only Marine Rescue in Louisiana Throws a Party

Schoolchildren step off a yellow school bus and walk toward the entrance of The Florida Aquarium in Tampa, past a stingray sculpture beneath the building glass atrium.

Conservation Projects

Tampa Voters Bought 13,000 Kids an Aquarium Trip

A blue tree monitor lizard with gray-blue scales and pale blue markings rests along a log in its habitat, facing the camera with one clawed front foot extended over the bark.

Conservation Projects

Three Lizards In, Two Out, and a First Clutch of Eggs

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

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

Thirteen delegates pose in two rows at the Abuja launch of Nigeria's National Business Action Plan for Biodiversity, each holding a printed copy of the plan, in front of a banner reading strengthening business engagement in Nigeria's biodiversity agenda.

Africa & Middle East

Nigeria Hands Its Companies a Biodiversity Playbook

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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