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North America

Zoo news and information from the North America.

Events

Two Nights Left, 4.5 Tons of Candy, and a Palm Oil Rule

Mr Zoo News

Two performers dressed as La Catrina at the Houston Zoo, in full calavera face paint and towering floral headdresses, one in blue and white patterned dress and one in pink, standing under oak trees hung with orange and red lanterns.

Events

Houston Zoo Builds an Ofrenda for the Animals It Has Lost

October 28, 2026

Carved wooden animals on the Birmingham Zoo carousel, including a tall giraffe with a red bridle, a spotted leopard, a zebra, an ostrich and two pale horses, under a lit wooden canopy with species names painted on the boards above.

Expansions

Birmingham’s Carousel Comes Back, Endangered Species and All

Architectural rendering of the Tennessee Aquarium's planned animal hospital: a bright treatment room with staff in blue scrubs, overhead surgical lights, teal cabinetry and a glass-walled imaging suite holding a CT scanner.

Expansions

A $5 Million Animal Hospital, and the Vets It Will Train

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

North America

An African Penguin Chick Hatched at the Caldwell Zoo

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

A jaguar walks along a tangled, vine-covered riverbank, its spotted coat lit by the sun and the water visible at the bottom of the frame

North America

A Jaguar Map Drawn by Jaguars

For decades the map of where jaguars can still travel across the Americas ...

Laerke, a polar bear, swims underwater with her front legs spread wide and sunlight breaking through the surface of the pool above her

Conservation Projects

A Hand-Reared Polar Bear Gets a Breeding Recommendation

A five-year-old polar bear named Laerke is moving from the Point Defiance Zoo ...

Five children in skeleton and cat Halloween costumes and face paint sit on hay bales at the Gulf Breeze Zoo, holding trick-or-treat bags, with an inflatable bat and pots of mums beside them.

Events

A Hurricane Took Two Weekends. Boo Is Still On.

Boo at the Zoo is still happening at Gulf Breeze Zoo, on four ...

An adult male mandrill with a scarlet nose stripe, blue facial ridges and a yellow beard walks across grass beside a torn paper banner.

North America

A Mandrill Pregnancy, Announced With Pumpkins

Audubon Zoo is expecting a mandrill. Lucy, who is 14, is pregnant for ...

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, ...

A Mexican wolf stands among low desert brush and weathered logs, turned toward the camera, with a second wolf resting behind it.

Conservation Projects

Every Mexican Wolf Alive Descends From Seven Animals

Every Mexican wolf alive today, in zoos across two countries and in the ...

Two Baltimore Youth Arts apprentices speak to a seated audience on the National Aquarium Harbor Wetland boardwalk, beside a stand holding three illustrated tumbler panels, with the Inner Harbor behind them.

Expansions

Baltimore Teenagers Drew the Harbor’s Next 100 Years

There is a new thing to spin at the National Aquarium’s Harbor Wetland, ...

An Asian elephant walks toward the camera on a dirt yard with its trunk curled up and forward, tusks showing, a grassy mound and Douglas firs behind it.

Conservation Projects

Oregon’s Bull Elephant Is Leaving the Herd He Grew Up In

Samudra is 18 years old, weighs about 10,000 pounds, and is leaving the ...

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 ...

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