The Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Goddard, Kansas, is home to internet-famous pygmy hippo Mars, whose keeper, Sierra, often ...

A rare spotless giraffe named Kipekee tragically died at age 2 in November 2025 at the Brights Zoo in Limestone, Tenn. The University of Tennessee announced the cause of her death on Feb. 16.

Tackling the tension between promoting conservation, keeping animals in captivity and its heavy history, the zoo has been reshaped around environmental awareness ...

A new member of Salt Lake City’s Hogle Zoo family was welcomed this week with the birth of a giraffe calf. The healthy baby boy was born through natural birth early Monday at 1:38 a.m., standing at ...

BEEZLEY HILLS PRESERVE, Grant County – Wildlife biologist Miranda Crowell hunches over the cold, cracked dirt of the Washington shrub-steppe to inspect a moist pellet that is central to her obsession ...

It’s a baby only a mother could love. A rare wide-eyed pygmy slow loris — with eyes as big as its ears and a sleep cycle that would drive even the most patient parents bonkers — has become the first ...

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It’s the first primate to be born within its newly renovated immersive exhibit. An endangered pygmy slow loris was born in the Bronx Zoo’s renovated World of Darkness exhibit. The species is ...

For over 200 years, there has been just one species of giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis. This unmistakable African animal is easily recognized across the world. With their long necks and distinctive ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Toledo Zoo has reached new heights this week, quite literally, with the birth of a soon-to-be towering new addition to its reticulated giraffe herd. Eugene, a 130-pound male calf, ...