TACOMA, Wash. — Point Defiance Zoo announced Monday that one of its polar bears, Astra, will be moving to a new zoo in October. Astra and her sister, Laerke, arrived at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium ...

Bears are transferred for conservation success and individual needs, not for public display preferences. The Arctic Ring of Life is already home to Suka and Haley, two female bears who will be ...

DENVER — Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance said this week that its beloved hippos' scheduled transfer to a different state this fall has been postponed. In July, the zoo announced Mahali, its Nile ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — It's a tale as old as time. Babies are born, grow up, and eventually move on somewhere new. Such is the case for two gorilla brothers, Moyo and ZaKota, at Columbia's Riverbanks Zoo & ...

When John Miskelly heard about Jersey Zoo's cost-cutting plans to shut its colony of Livingstone's fruit bats last year, he was deeply concerned. "It's a very endangered species around the world," ...