Zoos are great, right? You get to be up close and personal with some amazing animals that you’d pretty much never get to see in the wild. Clearly, zoos are a win for people. But when it comes to the ...

This post is in response to 'Are Wild Animals Always Happier Than Captive Animals?' By Marc Bekoff Ph.D. Can captive animals be happy? In a recent Psychology Today post, Marc Bekoff cites Janis Joplin ...

In recent years, there has been significant debate on whether or not zoos and other types of animal parks, menageries and aquariums should exist. But why were zoos established in the first place?

Thou shall not kill healthy zoo animals A few months ago I posted an essay titled " It's Still Not Happening at the Zoo: Sharp Divisions Remain " that was a summary of a meeting held at the Detroit ...

The Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums is taking what many animal activists say is a long-overdue step by initiating a process for evaluating the living conditions of wildlife kept at its ...

It was April in 1981 when a party of four camped for two days and nights on the forested slopes of Mount Evermann, the central peak of Socorro, a volcanic island in the Pacific some 400 kilometers ...

From tongue-rolling alpacas to irritable yaks and perturbed pigs, new research has lifted the lid on why some farm and zoo animals cope well with captivity and others display signs of stress.

Hanako, a female Asian elephant, lived in a tiny concrete enclosure at Japan’s Inokashira Park Zoo for more than 60 years, often in chains, with no stimulation. In the wild, elephants live in herds, ...

Last weekend, a woman was mauled by a lioness at Darling Downs Zoo in Queensland, and lost her arm. The zoo, which keeps nine lions, has been operating for 20 years and had never experienced an ...

While you might think a zoo is a zoo, these exhibits often have more than animals -- some of the world's oldest pack in quite ...