BUENOS AIRES -- On July 15, scores of Argentines turned out to give the Buenos Aires Zoo a ceremonial hug. They didn't want to save it, however. In a very basic sense, they wanted to kill it. The idea ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A Victorian zoo is celebrating its newest addition after a southern white rhino was born to two of its residents. The strapping, ...

The State's planning umpire has ruled against a western Victorian zoo housing new baboons, lemurs or gibbon monkey species because of unacceptable noise levels. The Halls Gap Zoo wanted to introduce ...

A much-loved giraffe at a Victorian zoo has suddenly died, with shocked staff struggling with the "tragic loss". Werribee Open Range Zoo in Melbourne's west said on Friday it was mourning the death of ...

MORE than a dozen penguins killed by a fox and 17 possums accidentally poisoned were among the tragic animal deaths recorded by Zoos Victoria. Last November 14 little penguins were savaged at the ...

A row over exotic monkeys at a western Victorian zoo will go to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) today. The Northern Grampians Shire Council rejected the Halls Gap Zoo's proposal ...

Bristol Zoo bosses have ignored a second lawyers’ letter threatening legal action and gone ahead with another auction of items from the Clifton Zoo Gardens site - this time all the Victorian benches ...

The rare set of so-called Magic Lantern slides is to be auctioned next week. It includes Jumbo, once the world's most famous elephant, and animals now extinct like the quagga - a type of zebra that ...

Zoos Victoria staff has been left heartbroken after they were forced to euthanise a three-week-old African lion cub. Werribee Zoo veterinarians made the difficult decision to put the cub down due to ...