Human error has been deemed the cause of a 2-year-old female western lowland gorilla's death in Canada, Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo officials announced. A formal ...

"They will never face cruelty again," said Sue Tygielski, senior director of Black Beauty Ranch, part of the Humane Society of the United States Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine.

A Calgary Zoo staff member mistakenly activated a door that struck the western lowland gorilla named Eyare, a report found. By Emmett Lindner A 2-year-old gorilla died of traumatic injuries last week ...

The question at hand in this short essay is, “How can zoos and aquariums foster cultures of care and conservation?” The quick answer: there are many, varied ways. Zoos exist mainly to entertain humans ...

Even in Atlantic Canada, long a target of activists on account of the commercial seal hunt, fewer than one in four ...

A fire had broken out, putting Big Bear in its path and the small crew at the Big Bear Alpine Zoo on high alert. As zookeepers monitored the news and checked the weather, the sky darkened and the air ...

Killing healthy animals in zoos isn't a myth, it's business as usual I'm always thrilled that major media are carrying stories about all aspects of animal behavior, including their fascinating ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — After welcoming two new Masai giraffes this month, the Seneca Park Zoo has yet another new animal: A Canada lynx. A five-year-old lynx named Albert arrived at the zoo by plane ...

SAN DIEGO — The coughing among the western lowland gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in January was the first warning sign. Soon the fears were confirmed: A troop of gorillas became the first ...

At the turn of the 20th century, the great zoological gardens of Paris, London and New York City would have been hardly recognizable by today’s standards. Animals large and small—those that had ...