Clown, with three other polar bears at the Washington Park Zoo, circa 1915-1920. You may recall all of the excitement there was when some thought there was a “Milwaukee lion” roaming around back in ...

University of Dayton Assistant Professor of Environmental History Daniel Vandersommers is using animal history to examine a storied American institution in his new book, Entangled Encounters at the ...

SAN DIEGOChuck Bieler spent five decades helping lead the San Diego Zoo. Not bad for a guy who walked in not knowing a lion from a tiger. He was there in 1972 when the Balboa Park-based zoo opened the ...

The New York Zoological Park shelters within its comfortable old Bronx plant the finest collections of animals in the world. Curator of Mammals & Reptiles and general head man at the zoo is Dr.

A new children's book tells the story of the tiger cub that was rejected by its mother at the Philadelphia Zoo, cared for by zookeepers and ultimately adopted by a tiger of another subspecies — a feat ...

Enjoy a look back at some incredible and heartwarming stories about the Smithsonian National Zoo’s animals and the people who care for them. Mike Bock No two days at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and ...

When San Diego native Georgeanne Irvine was a young child, her quaint bedroom was filled with plush animals, including a lion, two teddy bears, a tiger, monkey, an elephant and others. “I made up ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Seneca Park Zoo and Golisano Children’s Hospital are partnering for a very special project. A new augmented reality book brings the zoo to kids’ hospital rooms. It’s called ...