Most zoo members attend a couple to three times a year. Even if they visited every day, they'd be hard pressed to meet all ...

Shortly after the Zoo’s opening, a six-foot alligator escapes its enclosure and takes refuge in Swan Lake. Sol Stephan was paid $25 for its recapture days later. The zoo brought in a firing squad to ...

Many mammal populations in European and North American zoos are aging—a trend that jeopardizes the long-term viability of so-called reserve populations and, with it, a core mission of modern zoos in ...