Woodland Park Zoo is redesigning its Family Farm into Wild Encounters, featuring new up-close animal experiences, a lorikeet aviary, and giant tortoises, with the first phase opening this summer.

Eunice Framm, senior keeper of barnyard animals at the Cincinnati Zoo, has taught pigs to bowl, goats to paint, and red pandas to receive vaccines. She, and all other keepers, do so through the zoo’s ...

In some cases, stuffed animals are used by experts to provide comfort and warmth to baby animals. Read more at ...

The Turtleback Zoo in West Orange is offering a series of homeschool classes designed to boost scientific literacy and knowledge of the natural world for students ages 6-12. The next class is ...

Across Minnesota, zoo workers are learning their new animals’ care and personalities, and nursing many back to good health after the Roseville aquarium and petting zoo closed. Inside his new habitat, ...

Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and The Nature Conservancy have teamed up to turn invasive trees and shrubs into a win-win situation for the organizations Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has ...