This is how a king-size gorilla shares his big day - with a 10th birthday party at the zoo where he was born. Keepers at Bioparc Valencia zoo in southern Spain created a special fruit 'cake' for Ebo - named after a gorilla research project in Cameroon - packed with…
Furious animal lovers have accused zoo keepers of negligence after a much-loved wildcat choked to death when it was fed pieces of chicken on the bone. Picture shows the Pallass cat named Sun Simiao, undated. It died of suffocation at Xining Wildlife Park in China. (Xining Wildlife Park/AsiaWire) The Pallas's…
Heartbroken wildlife keepers have told how a beloved elephant was comforted by her family and friends in a touching mourning ritual during her last moments at a sanctuary in Brazil. Veteran tusker Pocha, 55, had been given her first taste of freedom when she was transferred to the Natural Elephant…
These seemingly synchronised dancing bears were spotted by a zoo visitor could almost pass for a new type of boy band. Videos of their performance emerged from a wildlife zoo in eastern China to the delight of visitors. The truth, however, is that the bears were actually begging for food…
Adorable giraffe calf Amari has shown that she may be just six months old but she is already running rings around the adults in her zoo enclosure. Schoenbrunn Zoo in the Austrian capital Vienna put the youngster on show in a special to mark her half birthday on 23rd July.…
A second elephant has died of a lethal strain of herpes just days after her younger brother was killed by the virus in a Swiss zoo. Omysha died on 10th July aged eight, just days after being allowed into an enclosure with her brother Umesh's body to mourn him. Keepers…
One of Europe’s oldest African bush elephants has died mysterious aged 44 at his enclosure in a Spanish zoo. Kibo died during the night without any signs that he was ill, baffling his keepers. https://youtu.be/uUp1vdO2RoM Bioparc Valencia/Newsflash His routine was normal in the days leading up to his death and…
This is the moment an adorable ocelot cub gets to grips with the climbing skills it will need when it grows up. The weeks-old youngster was filmed by keepers as it explored its rainforest-like enclosure called Gondwana Land at Leipzig Zoo, Germany. Proud mum Daphne, 14, leads her newborn around…
Sam the bear takes his first dip in his own swimming hole at a Swiss sanctuary after he was saved from a life of misery in a grim zoo. Sam was transferred from a grim North Macedonian zoo in May and has spent months trying to acclimatise to his new…
A two-year-old elephant has died despite keepers' best efforts after it contracted a herpes virus at Zurich zoo in Switzerland. Umesh, a young male, died on the evening of Tuesday, 28th June, with zookeepers letting the young bull's family spend some time with the body, to say goodbye, as elephants…