All news on the topic: Zoos

The optical illusion has been described as mind-boggling as it seems to show an ape 'evolve' into a man in the blink of an eye - leaving some people stumped

Syrian brown bear Norman needed urgent dental care after the 36-stone giant tried to gnaw his way out of a cage where he had been kept in horrific conditions in an abandoned zoo

Parker, a six-year-old giraffe, died at Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, New York after getting caught in a gate in its enclosure. The animal was described as 'a joy' to visitors and staff

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Louise Middlewood took her partner Naomi to see the penguins at a zoo as they're her favourite animal - and enlisted the help of the birds for a romantic proposal

Hilariously, this Valentine's Day, you can get an ex partner's name written in a litter tray so cats can poop on them for life - all it takes is a small donation

Davion Irvin, 24, told police he took the stolen monkeys on the local light-rail system before dropping them off at his animal stash house not far from Dallas Zoo, according to court documents

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Momo, a white-handed gibbon, shocked staff at a Nagasaki zoo after becoming pregnant as she was living in her own cage and was not in contact with any other male monkey

Dallas Zoo has offered a reward of $25,000 for information after two monkeys and a leopard are believed to have been freed from their enclosures and a vulture was found dead

Mexico's state environment department said a zebra was traded for tools and deer and Watusi cattle were traded off to private individuals, while three goats were slaughtered for consumption

The rare monkeys, at first feared abducted from the zoo enclosure, were found in the cupboard after a tipoff. This is just the latest in a line of strange happenings at the Dallas zoo in the US

The Sumatran tiger struck at about 2am local time in a protected forest in Indonesia's Aceh province, with local officials saying they plan to "rescue" and "relocate" the creature because farmers had been working illegally inside the area

Dallas-based tech firm Colossal Biosciences has previously announced plans to bring back the lumbering woolly mammoth - which last roamed the earth 10,000 years ago - but recently said it also wants to resurrect the Dodo

Images show an angry chimp at Nanning Zoo, in China, throwing a water bottle at a girl, who had been filming him. The bottle hit her in the eye and left her bleeding

Hungry seal Nelson arrived in Marks Hall Fisheries in Rochford, Essex in December and refused to leave. After three rescue attempts, the animal was shot with a tranquiliser and died

A zoo offering to name a cockroach after your ex this Valentine's Day has had to stop accepting names as too many scorned lovers inundated the service hoping to get the last laugh

The Dallas Zoo has asked for aid from the local police department in investigating the death of one of its endangered vultures - a week after holes were cut in leopard and monkey enclosures

The trespasser, who was reportedly drunk, was savagely mauled by a big cat named Aristo in Russian zoo Chudesny, in Ussuriysk, after climbing into the lion's enclosure

Ruben the lion was the last animal left at an abandoned zoo on the Armenian-Azerbaijan border and kept alone in a tiny cage for five years. He lost his roar as he had no one to communicate with

WARNING UPSETTING CONTENT: Footage recorded at the Yibin Wild Animal World in Sichuan Province shows three lions, each taking a different body part as they attack a tiger after it strayed into their enclosure

Bradley Green and Nathan Daniels broke into Marwell Zoo in 2021 and filmed themselves causing damage and abusing animals before posting the shocking footage to Snapchat

Until now, scientists assumed the females of the species turned to "virgin birth", a process called parthenogenesis, only when there weren't enough mates to go around

Authorities in South Africa are trying to locate a tiger after it escaped from its enclosure near Johannesburg. It killed a dog and mauled a man who survived but was taken to the hospital

The family day out to the zoo was made a lot easier and quicker when the dad when the dad came up with the ingenious solution to get his kid walking right behind him