The alert was "mistakenly activated," and "there was no emergency," a rep for the zoo told PEOPLE in a statement Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

A false alarm sparked chaos at Melbourne Zoo in Australia earlier today as patrons feared there was a baboon on the loose. Visitors to the zoo were either evacuated or put into lockdown this afternoon ...

This little guy is beating the heat in the cutest way possible! Check out Obi, a 3-week-old pygmy hippo calf, splashing around with his mom at the Melbourne Zoo in Australia. Tap to see video if ...

Peter Stroud wrote of the horrible conditions the elephant lived in for 25 years. “Bong Su is dead Not because he reached old age, but because he was broken by cramped and impoverished zoo conditions ...

Last week, rough waves and heavy winds pushed dense sargassum seaweed onto Florida beaches, trapping hundreds of sea turtle ...

8-year-old Diego is the zoo’s new jaguar and is filling the space left by the zoo’s previous jaguar, Khan. The Birmingham Zoo ...

Zoos in Florida, Texas, California and Arizona are experts at dealing with heat. Animals are perhaps more readily equipped than humans to deal with extreme heat. But when the heat index climbs into ...

Back in 2018, Miami welcomed a unique new resident: a 7-year-old Asian elephant named Ongard. The first male elephant born in Australia’s Melbourne Zoo, Ongard arrived in South Florida on a chartered ...