SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) — A free day for kids and a new way to visit with your favorite animals is coming to the Potawatomi Zoo. You can now have meet and greets with animals. The zoo will host a free ...

The staff at the Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium are also prepared to keep even their wildest creatures cool in this extreme heat. It's a busy day for Assistant Mammal Curator Karen Vacco and all the ...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Philadelphia Zoo visitors usually can’t get too close to the animals, but now they are encouraged to touch and even climb and play on some of them. Zoo officials are ...

Have you ever seen an elephant painting? Elephants, pigs, dolphins, and all manner of primates have been trained to paint in zoos, shows, and other preserves, and there are many debates about whether ...

Zoo curator Natalie Davis said the baby goats are "very curious already." In their habitat, the goat kids have plenty of toys including a slide. The zoo said keepers will be teaching the goats to ...

Elgin’s Lords Park Farm Zoo opens for the season Saturday, June 1. Hours are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays and noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Sunday, Aug. 11, according to the city’s ...

HOUSTON — As the temperatures begin to climb in Houston, animals at the Houston Zoo have to find ways to keep their bodies cool. They can't do that on their own, so they get a little help. To enrich ...

'Using local invasive species helps buffer us and gives animals more variety,' the Minnesota Zoo said of the choice Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...