Human Zoos

Up until the late 1950s, Europeans could go and see people from other ethnic backgrounds exhibited in cages, or in specially built villages.

The Chester Zoo in Englandd's Cheshire has revealed that more than 10,000 breeding females of the spider species had spread across the country.

A Chinese zoo has been forced to deny that its sun bear is actually a human in a costume, after footage of one standing on its hind legs raised online accusations of a furry imposter.

The recruited person will need to dress up in the inflatable outfit and keep seagulls away from the major guest dining areas.

A dramatic video captured the moment a stray dog wandered into the gorilla enclosure at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in the United States.

Eight Asiatic lions housed in the Hyderabad Zoo have been diagnosed with respiratory distress after contracting the SARS-COV2 virus; they have been isolated, are being treated, and are behaving normally, the centre said

As many as eight gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park are presumed to have contracted COVID-19 from a human handler after one of the animals tested positive, marking the first known transmission of the virus to apes, zoo officials said on Monday.

A rare white tiger, named "Nieve" (snow in Spanish) was born at the Nicaragua zoo, and is being raised by humans after its mother rejected it, the director of the zoo told AFP.

Large swathes of western and northern Europe will scorch this week with temperatures reaching up to 43 degrees Celsius. But it's not just humans who are feeling the hot weather, zoo animals in Europe are also getting creative while coming up with ways to beat the heat.

Photos and videos of a monkey with a freakishly human-like face have gone massively viral on Chinese social media. A video of the black-capped capuchin has been viewed at least eight million times on China's Twitter-like social media platform Weibo. The monkey, an inhabitant of the Tianjin Zoo, has become an Internet sensation for its strangely amu...

A Japanese zoo celebrated the first birth of a baby panda in five years Monday, with the tiny cub small enough to fit in the palm of a human hand.

The Delhi Zoo and the city's famous deer park have been shut down following an outbreak of avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu.

Wearing a stack of bronze neck coils -- a sign of beauty for her Kayan tribe -- Mu Par dreams of a time when all "long-necked" women can return to Myanmar from Thailand where they are a tourist attraction.

It's no secret that peek-a-boo, the toddler version of hide-and-seek, is a blockbuster hit with tiny humans. But just so you know, baby gorillas enjoy playing the game too, just as long as they find a ready partner in crime.

Knut, the star polar bear who was hand-reared at Berlin zoo after his mother rejected him, had a type of auto-immune inflation of the brain that is found in humans, scientists said on Thursday.

Up until the late 1950s, Europeans could go and see people from other ethnic backgrounds exhibited in cages, or in specially built villages.

The Chester Zoo in Englandd's Cheshire has revealed that more than 10,000 breeding females of the spider species had spread across the country.

A Chinese zoo has been forced to deny that its sun bear is actually a human in a costume, after footage of one standing on its hind legs raised online accusations of a furry imposter.

The recruited person will need to dress up in the inflatable outfit and keep seagulls away from the major guest dining areas.

A dramatic video captured the moment a stray dog wandered into the gorilla enclosure at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in the United States.

Eight Asiatic lions housed in the Hyderabad Zoo have been diagnosed with respiratory distress after contracting the SARS-COV2 virus; they have been isolated, are being treated, and are behaving normally, the centre said

As many as eight gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park are presumed to have contracted COVID-19 from a human handler after one of the animals tested positive, marking the first known transmission of the virus to apes, zoo officials said on Monday.

A rare white tiger, named "Nieve" (snow in Spanish) was born at the Nicaragua zoo, and is being raised by humans after its mother rejected it, the director of the zoo told AFP.

Large swathes of western and northern Europe will scorch this week with temperatures reaching up to 43 degrees Celsius. But it's not just humans who are feeling the hot weather, zoo animals in Europe are also getting creative while coming up with ways to beat the heat.

Photos and videos of a monkey with a freakishly human-like face have gone massively viral on Chinese social media. A video of the black-capped capuchin has been viewed at least eight million times on China's Twitter-like social media platform Weibo. The monkey, an inhabitant of the Tianjin Zoo, has become an Internet sensation for its strangely amu...

A Japanese zoo celebrated the first birth of a baby panda in five years Monday, with the tiny cub small enough to fit in the palm of a human hand.

The Delhi Zoo and the city's famous deer park have been shut down following an outbreak of avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu.

Wearing a stack of bronze neck coils -- a sign of beauty for her Kayan tribe -- Mu Par dreams of a time when all "long-necked" women can return to Myanmar from Thailand where they are a tourist attraction.

It's no secret that peek-a-boo, the toddler version of hide-and-seek, is a blockbuster hit with tiny humans. But just so you know, baby gorillas enjoy playing the game too, just as long as they find a ready partner in crime.

Knut, the star polar bear who was hand-reared at Berlin zoo after his mother rejected him, had a type of auto-immune inflation of the brain that is found in humans, scientists said on Thursday.