Everyone working on the years-long campaign to free Pretoria Zoo’s last elephant, Charlie, can heave a massive sigh of relief as the old animal is finally back in the wild.
Just one Gaia can eat upwards of 3,000 rodents a year.
The sickness, and how it spreads, is a mystery.
After several groups spent years urging authorities to let him retire and spend his final years with some level of freedom, Charlie, the Pretoria Zoo elephant will finally get to spend his old age in the wilds of Shambala Private Game Reserve.
A couple visiting a US Zoo posted the sweetest video to TikTok of a mother Orangutan named Amber asking to see their 2-month-old baby and it’s just what we all need on a Monday.
The San Antonio Zoo is offering a special V-Day gift for exes who seriously need to bugger off.
Following the story that gripped the world, Tiger King’s Carole Baskin is back, and this time it’s with her very own investigative docuseries that is promising many “shocking moments”.
Pumba Wildlife Park is a private zoo that plans to feature more than 140 local and exotic animals – including lions, tigers, and pumas – but it’s already courting controversy.
Some South African zoos and municipalities should hang their heads in shame with regards to the treatment of animals.
If you have an old Calvin Klein perfume bottle lying around, Banham Zoo, in Norfolk, would love to hear from you.
Stop whatever you’re doing and settle in for the most method polar bear actor you’ll encounter, ever.
Freddy the parrot was abducted from a Brazilian zoo, but that’s not even close to the worst thing he’s gone through.
An eagle-eyed student had been taking pictures at the zoo when he noticed that something looked incredibly off about a certain “zebra”.
Some trips to the zoo are nice family outings, and others take a turn for the worst. That’s the case with this poor granny in Michigan.
A London zoo gorilla managed to escape its enclosure yesterday after smashing its window, but thankfully no one, not even the gorilla, was harmed.
He is currently the world’s saddest polar bear, but Pizza might soon be making a trip to greener pastures all in the name of happiness.
They say an elephant never forgets, and it appears the internet never forgets about the death of a beloved gorilla either. Trolling at its finest.
It appears that over in Japan they like to be prepared for the worst, including what would happen if a zebra bust out of a zoo.
It’s not every day a trip to the zoo includes a show from a brown-pants, shirtless and mud-covered real life Tarzan swinging from tree to tree.
There are some animals renowned for their beauty (they know who they are), but gorillas don’t usually score that high with the female fan base. Not this good-looking chap though.
Animal lovers in China are set for an all new experience as plans are under way to develop a virtual reality zoo. It looks like this has made PETA rather happy.
Surprise, surprise, the Beijing zoo that brought us the Tibetan Mastiff disguised as an African lion has closed its doors. Unsuspecting zoo goers, realized that the “African lion” was really a dog when it started barking. Since this incident has made world-wide news more impostors at the zoo have been revealed!
A zoo in China thought they could get away with labelling a Tibetan mastiff as an “African Lion”. To be fair, the Tibetan mastiff is a rather large dog, with long hair and a lion-like mane. It kind-of looks like a lion. Too bad it barks though, which is what gave it away in the end.
Of the 56 wild animals – including six black bears, two grizzly bears, nine male lions, eight lionesses, one baboon, three mountain lions, 18 tigers, and two wolves – that escaped their private wildlife sanctuary in Zanesville, Ohio, only six were rescued; the rest have been shot by local authorities.
Aleksandr Pylyshenko, a Ukrainian artist who owns a private zoo in the city of Vasilyevka, plans on living in an enclosure with Katya and Samson, his lions, for five weeks to raise money to improve the zoo’s living conditions and to increase awareness of underfunded private Ukrainian zoos. So that makes sense.
Chengdu Zoo in Sichuan ran a tiger-escape drill a couple of days ago, so that people would know what to do in case one broke out of its enclosure. For maximum realism, security guards were given real guns, and the ‘tiger’ was a dude in a Tigger costume. You know, From Winnie the Pooh.