drawing huge crowds and giving rides to the zoo visitors. Eventually, he was sold to the Barnum and Bailey Circus in the United States, making Jumbo the world’s first animal superstar.

“The thing they came up with: celebrity animals.” Fans quickly grew attached to their favourites. When the zoo sold Jumbo the elephant to American showman PT Barnum in 1882, people protested ...

Excited for a summer trip to the zoo? Here's what the Brandywine and Philadelphia zoos have in store, from craft beer nights to a sensory-friendly event.

The Maryland Zoo has announced the birth of an endangered lemur, called a Coquerel’s sifaka, marking the first arrival of ...

Four critically-endangered Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise babies made their debut at the Philadelphia Zoo on Wednesday ...

It took nearly 100 years for a duo of endangered Philadelphia Zoo tortoises to become parents -- the time to name those hatchlings will be much, much shorter.

ZURICH -- A 19-year-old Asian elephant at the Zurich Zoo gave birth this weekend to a male calf whose name, starting with the ...

As is the practice every year during this part of summer, the zoo management has made elaborate arrangements to help the animals withstand the heat. Efforts are made to maintain the room ...

An endangered baby lemur was born at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, marking the first birth of the species — a Coquerel’s sifaka — at the facility since 2016, zoo officials announced Thursday. The ...

The Maryland Zoo is in the middle of a baby boom! After welcoming a new giraffe last month and a new chimpanzee last summer, the zoo family got bigger when it got a new member of its sifaka lemur ...