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A lioness walks from right to left across short dry red-brown grass in low golden light, with open scrub and bare ground stretching to a flat horizon behind her.

Africa & Middle East

Tsavo’s Six Cats, and the Zoo Money That Is Not Theirs

Three people in navy uniforms and high-visibility vests kneel on the wet concrete floor of a dry dock, working a Cape fur seal into a dark mesh net, with the red hull of a vessel and yellow scaffolding rising behind them and a fourth worker further down the dock.

Africa & Middle East

Cape Fur Seals Trapped in a Dry Dock, All Four Out

A close-up of a flowering desert plant, its stalk carrying clusters of dark red buds with long yellow anthers pushing out of them, a small dark insect on one bud, with a green desert hillside and heavy grey storm clouds out of focus behind.

Events

El Paso Zoo Hosts the Chihuahuan Desert Conference

A lioness walks from right to left across short dry red-brown grass in low golden light, with open scrub and bare ground stretching to a flat horizon behind her.

Africa & Middle East October 4, 2026

Tsavo’s Six Cats, and the Zoo Money That Is Not Theirs

Tsavo holds six wild cat species. Three have population baselines, three have none, and the zoo money ...

Three people in navy uniforms and high-visibility vests kneel on the wet concrete floor of a dry dock, working a Cape fur seal into a dark mesh net, with the red hull of a vessel and yellow scaffolding rising behind them and a fourth worker further down the dock.

Africa & Middle East October 4, 2026

Cape Fur Seals Trapped in a Dry Dock, All Four Out

Four Cape fur seals swam into a Cape Town dry dock before it drained. The aquarium team ...

A close-up of a flowering desert plant, its stalk carrying clusters of dark red buds with long yellow anthers pushing out of them, a small dark insect on one bud, with a green desert hillside and heavy grey storm clouds out of focus behind.

Events October 4, 2026

El Paso Zoo Hosts the Chihuahuan Desert Conference

The Fourth Chihuahuan Desert Conference has its schedule posted, its dates settled and a registration deadline of ...

Two SCUBA divers in costume kneel on the gravel bottom of an aquarium exhibit, each holding up a carved jack-o'-lantern, one in a green dinosaur suit and hood and the other in a red and blue suit with a red hood, bubbles rising around them.

Events October 4, 2026

Divers in Costume Carve Pumpkins to Open ODDtober

Two people seen from behind, standing on a grassy bank above a wide brown river with day packs on and binoculars raised, looking across at a low far bank of sand, scrub and scattered trees under a pale early morning sky.

Africa & Middle East October 3, 2026

Two Teams, 50 Kilometers, One River Counted

A black-backed jackal walks left to right through low green bush at night, lit by a camera trap flash, with fallen pale deadwood and dark trees behind it.

Africa & Middle East October 3, 2026

Namibia’s Jackals Are Not Eating the Sheep

Zoo Babies

A capybara pup, small and reddish-brown, stands on bare ground beside tall green leaves, with the head and shoulders of its much larger mother behind it.

North America October 1, 2026

Iyari the Capybara Has a Second Pup

Iyari, the Palm Beach Zoo’s capybara, has given birth to a single pup. Mother and baby are ...

A newborn black-and-white colobus monkey with a pure white coat and a pink face looks toward the camera while held against the dense black fur of its mother.

North America October 1, 2026

Lincoln Park’s New Colobus Is Born Pure White

A black-and-white colobus monkey was born at Lincoln Park Zoo in the early hours of September 24, ...

North & South American News

A close-up of a flowering desert plant, its stalk carrying clusters of dark red buds with long yellow anthers pushing out of them, a small dark insect on one bud, with a green desert hillside and heavy grey storm clouds out of focus behind.

Events

El Paso Zoo Hosts the Chihuahuan Desert Conference

Two SCUBA divers in costume kneel on the gravel bottom of an aquarium exhibit, each holding up a carved jack-o'-lantern, one in a green dinosaur suit and hood and the other in a red and blue suit with a red hood, bubbles rising around them.

Events

Divers in Costume Carve Pumpkins to Open ODDtober

Promotional artwork for an animated film, showing a wide-eyed boy character stitched together from patches at center, a shaggy orange monster in purple striped trousers beside him and several smaller cartoon monsters across a green field, with a castle on a rocky crag behind. Lettering reads Monster Mayhem 4D and, above, Are You Ready For Monsters?

Events

Monster Mayhem 4D Opens at The Maritime Aquarium

An aerial view at dusk of the Downtown Aquarium Houston complex, with a large Ferris wheel lit in bands of pink, green and blue on the left, the aquarium building marked with a large AQUARIUM sign at right, blue-roofed pavilions and palms between them, and a freeway curving past behind.

Events

A Largetooth Sawfish Headlines Houston’s October

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

A lioness walks from right to left across short dry red-brown grass in low golden light, with open scrub and bare ground stretching to a flat horizon behind her.

Africa & Middle East

Tsavo’s Six Cats, and the Zoo Money That Is Not Theirs

Three people in navy uniforms and high-visibility vests kneel on the wet concrete floor of a dry dock, working a Cape fur seal into a dark mesh net, with the red hull of a vessel and yellow scaffolding rising behind them and a fourth worker further down the dock.

Africa & Middle East

Cape Fur Seals Trapped in a Dry Dock, All Four Out

Two people seen from behind, standing on a grassy bank above a wide brown river with day packs on and binoculars raised, looking across at a low far bank of sand, scrub and scattered trees under a pale early morning sky.

Africa & Middle East

Two Teams, 50 Kilometers, One River Counted

A black-backed jackal walks left to right through low green bush at night, lit by a camera trap flash, with fallen pale deadwood and dark trees behind it.

Africa & Middle East

Namibia’s Jackals Are Not Eating the Sheep

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

Two Red-tailed Amazons perched side by side

Conservation Projects

Zoo Visitors Gave These Parrots Somewhere to Nest

Nine parrots hatched from eggs smuggled through a Rio de Janeiro airport are now living at São Paulo Zoo. Six ...

Mr Zoo News

Two ZooTampa staff treating a manatee lying on a wooden deck

Conservation Projects

The 640 Manatees You Helped Save Without Knowing

If you have ever taken your family to ZooTampa at Lowry Park, you have already ...

Mr Zoo News

Conservation Projects

New England Aquarium Follows Its Turtles to Texas

North America

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.

Conservation Projects

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

Two people in white protective coveralls and gloves examine a box turtle together in a quarantine room.

The Bronx Zoo Has Taken In 800 Trafficked Turtles

Three ocellaris clownfish swim in a pale, sparsely furnished quarantine tank.

An Aquarium Took In 500 Trafficked Animals Overnight

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