Jaguar kills zookeeper in Denver
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DENVER - A male jaguar killed a zookeeper at the Denver Zoo on Saturday and employees put the animal down, police said.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Rare Abyssinian lion cubs are being poisoned at a zoo in Ethiopia and sold to taxidermists because there isn't enough money to care for the animals, the facility's administrator said yesterday.
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An escaped tiger killed a visitor at San Francisco Zoo and mauled two other men on Tuesday, a year after the same animal attacked a park employee, officials said.
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A man is choked to death by his pet boa constrictor at his home in the US city of Cincinnati, police say.
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The animals died at Sriracha Tiger Zoo after being fed the carcasses of chickens infected with the disease. The zoo has been forced to close its doors to the public while authorities investigate.
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A 500-pound wildebeest kept with other exotic animals on a northern Indiana farm trampled its owner to death, police said.
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A zookeeper died Saturday after a 140-pound jaguar mauled her in its enclosure, and the big cat was fatally shot when it approached emergency workers treating the injured woman, the zoo said.
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Police are investigating a shoeprint found on the railing of a San Francisco Zoo exhibit from which a Siberian tiger escaped and killed a teenager in a Christmas attack, the city's police chief said on Thursday.
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An escaped tiger attacked and killed a zoo patron Tuesday in a cafe at the San Francisco Zoo, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Fire Department told CNN. Two others were transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, she added.
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An animal lover was mauled to death by cheetahs after entering their cage at a zoo in northern Belgium, authorities and zoo officials said Monday.
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The big cat exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo was cordoned off as a crime scene Wednesday as investigators tried to determine whether a 300-pound Siberian tiger that killed a visitor escaped from its high-walled pen on its own or got help from someone, inadvertent or otherwise.
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A 30-year-old gorilla died Tuesday at Brookfield Zoo, but motherhood may continue: The animal&#39;s eggs will be fertilized, frozen and later placed into another female to create new life.
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Tusker, a towering 50-year-old bull elephant who had become a favorite for safari camp visitors, was shot dead after New Year's party-goers provoked the animal into trampling several cars, conservationists said Monday.
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FOUNTAINTOWN, Ind. - A 6-foot-tall kangaroo that surprised residents as it bounded through rural central Indiana during the weekend died Monday after authorities used a tranquilizer dart was used to capture it.
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Four tigers escaped from their cage at the San Francisco Zoo on Tuesday, and one of them killed a visitor and injured two people, according to local news reports.
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A rare protected mountain gorilla has been found shot dead in the Democratic Republic of Congo&#39;s Virunga nature reserve, fuelling fears that rebels are targeting endangered species, conservationists said Sunday.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- In sad news for animal lovers, the San Francisco Zoo announced Friday that Emily, a 12-year-old female Siberian tiger, died Thursday night from unknown causes.