Public outcry saves baboons at Helsinki zoo
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A plan by a Helsinki Zoo to put down 14 baboons and replace them with more cold-resistant Japanese snow monkeys has caused such an uproar in Finland that the zoo has been forced to keep the animals.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2 -- The director of the San Francisco Zoo brushed off criticism Wednesday that two victims were denied help in the frantic moments after a fatal Christmas Day tiger attack, saying his workers acted heroically.
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Sydney's premier zoo is celebrating the  news that its 9-year-old Asian elephant is pregnant, but animal  rights groups are shocked that the zoo has let a juvenile  elephant fall pregnant.
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There is a disagreement concerning the future of two elephants at the Detroit Zoo: a sanctuary or the Columbus Zoo. The American Zoo and Aquarium Association in Washington has
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5 -- Attendance was up at the San Francisco Zoo following a tiger attack that killed a young man on Christmas Day, a zoo spokesman said Saturday.
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Hundreds of animal rights activists took part in a &quot;Running of the Nudes&quot; Thursday to protest the traditional running of the bulls ceremony in the Spanish town of Pamplona.
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BROOKFIELD, Ill. After Babs the gorilla died, keepers at Brookfield Zoo let surviving gorillas mourn the death of the most influential female in their social family.
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p2pnet.net OT News:- Experts are hoping a blood transfusion will save the life of a very rare baby elephant born a few days ago at the Calgary Zoo in Alberta, Canada.
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In the cold November night visitors to the Dutch maritime museum were greeted by howling polar bears while the animals in Artis zoo were awoken by torchlight during the Amsterdam Museum Night.
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JAKARTA/BANGKOK (DPA): Thailand, under growing pressure to repatriate some 100 orangutans allegedly smuggled into the country from Indonesia, plans to shift the apes from a private zoo to a safe centre, probably in Chiang Mai, a minister said on Thursday.
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A German zoo's plan to test the sexual orientation of penguins triggers protests from gay groups.
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Nearly a third of the world's apes and monkeys are threatened with extinction because of human activity, much of it illegal, a World Conservation Union report concludes.
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A group of Pygmy musicians performing at an annual festival were put up in a zoo by Congolese officials, prompting a protest from a human rights group.
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NAIROBI -- Wangari Maathai made a typically combative start to her first full day as a Nobel laureate yesterday, defending a recent suggestion that the HIV virus might have been made in a laboratory as a plot against Africans.
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The director of the San Francisco Zoo brushed off criticism Wednesday that two victims were denied help in the frantic moments after a fatal Christmas Day tiger attack, saying his employees acted heroically.
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Eleven-year-old female gorilla Tamani gestures as if making a phone call at the Blijdorp zoo in The Netherlands yesterday.
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San Francisco officials pondered  on Thursday whether to implement an unprecedented ban of  elephants from its zoo because of concerns about their  conditions in captivity.