Zookeepers in the South West have been celebrating the birth of two rare wolf pups. The maned wolf pups - which have yet to ...

Brexit has had "a major impact" on zoo breeding programmes across Europe, according to an Essex zoo. More than 60 species at Colchester Zoo have taken part in breeding programmes, but its zoological ...

Six months might seem like a long time to wait to find out the sex of a baby, but when it comes to sloths things move slowly. One of Jersey Zoo's sloths, Terry, gave birth in January but it has taken ...

Conservationists from Chester Zoo are celebrating after three "incredibly rare" birds have hatched as part of an international conservation project. The blue-eyed ground doves, which were reared at ...

A 58-year-old chimpanzee who was rescued from a pet shop in New York and brought to the UK in the 1960s has died, zoo bosses have announced. Chester Zoo said staff had said goodbye to Boris the ...

As part of the BBC's Darwin Season, and supporting David Attenborough's new documentary Charles Darwin And The Tree Of Life, the BBC Archive is taking audiences back 53 years to join David on one of ...

A zoo has said intruders are posing a risk to its gorillas after a video circulated online from someone who had broken in and filmed the animals. The Bristol Zoo Gardens in Clifton closed to the ...

It would be "incredibly wasteful" for the council to keep running Belfast Zoo as it is, according to a councillor. Ronan McLaughlin said the zoo had lost about £1.9m in the past year, with an ...

Blackpool Zoo is preparing to welcome its first elephant births in the Lancashire attraction's history. The zoo said plans were under way to prepare the enclosure for two new Asian elephants, ...

An artwork appearing on the shutters of London Zoo has been confirmed as the latest and final image in Banksy's surprise animal art trail across the capital. It shows a gorilla lifting the shutter to ...

A spokesperson for the zoo said such incidents were "extremely rare" (picture from Colchester Zoo in 2023) A zebra has died at a zoo following an incident involving a rhino, a spokesperson said.

Following a competitive pitch process, British animation studio Blue Zoo has secured the contract to produce a brand-new ...