Behind the scenes at a Chicago zoo, chimpanzees who spent years entertaining humans are learning to befriend their own kind.
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Stress From Fireworks Killed Baby Red Panda, Zoo in Scotland Says
Camera footage showed Roxie, a three-month-old, agitated by the noise. She died shortly afterward.
Stress From Fireworks Killed Baby Red Panda, Zoo in Scotland Says
Camera footage showed Roxie, a three-month-old, agitated by the noise. She died shortly afterward.
A Skeleton Bank of Understudied Species
With a new database of medical images, zoo and wildlife vets can finally see what healthy uncommon animals, from rhinos and tamarins to pangolins and sea stars, should look like on the inside.
5 Provisions in China’s Panda Contracts With U.S. Zoos
Normally confidential contracts show that U.S. zoos are accepting increasingly strict terms governing panda cams and public statements.
Giant Pandas From China Return to National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
A motorcade through the capital revived “panda diplomacy” between Washington and Beijing for the first time in nearly a year.
9 Monkeys Die in a Hong Kong Zoo
The zoo partially closed after the deaths, which occurred over two days and included members of a critically endangered species.
China’s Wild Panda Census is Widely Regarded as Flawed
The panda census methodology is widely seen as flawed, and China keeps the data shrouded in secrecy.
Is That a Panda at the Zoo? Or a Dog in a Disguise?
Zoos around the world have occasionally used a little dye, or just brazenness, to pass off one animal as another.
Finnish Zoo Returning Pandas to China Because of Cost
Two pandas are heading back to China eight years early amid lower-than-hoped-for visitor numbers at a zoo in rural Finland, and after the pair didn’t produce a cub.