Many families enjoy an outing to the zoo on a warm summer day. People have been fascinated with exotic animals since ancient Egypt. And although zoos have been delighting visitors for ages, are they ...

Eve D'Vincent challenges claims that zoo animals are true ambassadors for their species and argues for a shift in ...

If you visit a zoo, you might be captivated by the animals you see—majestic lions, curious meerkats, soaring birds of prey. But this is not always the case. Some zoos don't always give us that ...

For more than four decades, the Holtsville Ecology Site in Brookhaven, New York, was a local favorite. It was the kind of place families stopped on sunny afternoons to feed goats, wave to buffalo, and ...

Chances are that at some point during your life, you've visited a zoo. Maybe as a wide-eyed child or as a parent taking your kids to see exotic animals up close. Zoos have long been a fixture of ...

On an early morning in June, wearing purple latex gloves, Chandlar Carlile stood with a sharpened knife slicing through papaya, honeydew, lettuce and an assortment of other produce inside a shiny ...

Samantha Ward is the welfare specialist on the Zoo Experts Committee, part of DEFRA, who helped write the new zoo standards. If you visit a zoo, you might be captivated by the animals you see — ...