Zoos are great, right? You get to be up close and personal with some amazing animals that you’d pretty much never get to see in the wild. Clearly, zoos are a win for people. But when it comes to the ...

UK zoos and aquariums each year. But is there more to zoos than public amusement? What are zoos for? Helen Skelton finds out.

A few months ago I posted an essay titled "It's Still Not Happening at the Zoo: Sharp Divisions Remain" that was a summary of a meeting held at the Detroit zoo called "Zoos and Aquariums as Welfare ...

It was April in 1981 when a party of four camped for two days and nights on the forested slopes of Mount Evermann, the central peak of Socorro, a volcanic island in the Pacific some 400 kilometers ...

The director of Kent’s Wildwood Trust is questioning whether wolves should be kept in captivity after putting down the park’s entire pack to stop them from killing each other. The five wolves – Odin, ...

Hanako, a female Asian elephant, lived in a tiny concrete enclosure at Japan’s Inokashira Park Zoo for more than 60 years, often in chains, with no stimulation. In the wild, elephants live in herds, ...

What California Just Did for Killer Whales Has Animal Lovers Paying Attention ...

Last weekend, a woman was mauled by a lioness at Darling Downs Zoo in Queensland, and lost her arm. The zoo, which keeps nine lions, has been operating for 20 years and had never experienced an ...

The move reflects a growing challenge for North American zoos.

Why did the Alaska Sealife Center send a walrus calf to Seaworld Orlando, a location known to hold whales and dolphins captive for entertainment purposes? Are we really “saving” an animal if we just ...

Zoos kill healthy animals when they don't fit into their breeding program. They call it management euthanasia, but it isn't euthanasia, but rather "zoothanasia," and it should end.