Research (page 3) - ZooReviews

Research

News and information bout research projects led by zoological facilities in North and South America

A camera trap photograph of two researchers in a dense green Chicago field site, one in a yellow cap stepping over a fallen log while a second follows through waist-high grass, with the trap's own data bar reading TEF 24C and a July 2026 timestamp across the bottom.

North America

Knowing Coyotes Calms People. Knowing Raccoons Does Not.

Mr Zoo News

A researcher in heavy blue cryogenic gloves lifts a tall rack of labeled sample canes out of a liquid nitrogen storage tank in a laboratory, with white vapor pouring down over the tank and across the floor.

Conservation Projects

Cincinnati Zoo Won a Grant to Freeze Oak Trees

September 30, 2026

A hammer-headed bat with a long blunt muzzle and amber eyes is held in a gloved hand, its dark wing folded, with green forest behind.

North America

Bats Began in Europe, a Landmark Genome Study Finds

Two southern sea otters rest on their backs in a floating raft of kelp on a gray ocean surface, one looking toward the camera.

North America

The Work That Comes Before Oregon’s Sea Otters

A field researcher crouches at the base of a tree in dense green forest, strapping a camera trap housing to the trunk.

North America

A Free Library of Ways to Measure If Conservation Worked

Conservation spends a great deal of money on doing things and much less ...

A coyote wearing an ear tag and a radio collar rests among green undergrowth in dappled sunlight.

Conservation Projects

What City Life Does to the Animals Living In It

When a siren goes past the Akron Zoo, the resident coyotes answer it. ...

A white abalone rests on a rock underwater, its shell encrusted with algae and its pale tentacles extended along the base.

Conservation Projects

A Live White Abalone, First Seen in Five Years

For the first time in five years, an endangered white abalone has been ...

A person in waders standing in a forest creek holds a small eastern hellbender salamander curled in one cupped hand.

Conservation Projects

Chattanooga Zoo Returns 64 Hellbenders to the Wild

On May 4 and 5, 2026, staff from Chattanooga Zoo, the U.S. Forest ...

Florida's Protect Our Reefs specialty license plate, showing a reef scene with corals, tropical fish and a diver, and the tag number 4 REEF.

Conservation Projects

Mote Awards $365,000 in Protect Our Reefs Grants

Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium has awarded more than $365,000 to coral reef ...

A healthy adult red fox with black legs and a white-tipped tail stands on bare ground beside a concrete wall.

North America

A Fox Crossed the Atlantic in a Cargo Ship

In February 2026, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found a red fox ...

A snowy owl with bright yellow eyes and white plumage looks toward the camera against sunlit grass.

North America

A Zoo’s Bird Flu Plan Kept the Birds Outside

In May 2026, avian influenza was detected within 200 kilometers of the Wilder ...

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

The Asiatic wild ass, known in Mongolia as khulan, has returned to the ...

A wide sea turtle crawl track and the churned mound of a fresh nest in damp gray and gold sand at first light, with small waves breaking along the shoreline at the top of the frame

Conservation Projects

A Loggerhead Opens Mote’s 45th Nesting Season

A loggerhead came ashore on Venice Beach, Florida, on Monday, April 27, 2026, ...

A small house finch with an orange head perches on a person's fingers, a numbered metal band visible on its leg.

Conservation Projects

The Wild Birds a Zoo Studies in Its Own Trees

Nashville Zoo runs a bird conservation program that has nothing to do with ...

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