There’s a new face at The Buffalo Zoo. The zoo tweeted photos of a baby greater one-horned rhino born late Monday evening.
The hippo, born May 14, does not have a name yet because it has stayed close by its mother's side -- so zoo staff has not been able to definitively determine the calf's gender.
An escaped elephant, which had the Kansas City Zoo on high alert, has been returned. The Zoo tweeted around 3:40 p.m. that it was “in an active code red situation with an elephant in an area it should not be.”
One of the things we love most at Disney’s Animal Kingdom is welcoming babies to our family, and the animal care team is delighted to announce the birth of a healthy baby western lowland gorilla!, says Scott Terrell, DVM, DACVP, Director of Animal & Science Operations, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts.
There is a little more snow in Rochester but this time it is warm, fuzzy and adorable. The Seneca Park Zoo announced the birth of two snow leopard cubs on Monday. The babies were born to Timila, who is a first-time mom.
Three days before Mother’s Day, the Denver Zoo welcomed a baby mandrill into its primate troop — the first such birth since the zoo’s “mandrill baby boom” in 2003.
The Naples Daily News reports this is the first time in 30 years that the Naples Zoo at Caribbean Gardens has had lion cubs. The zoo announced the birth of the cubs on Thursday; one was born May 13 and two were born May 14.
Four pups of a critically endangered species of wolf have been born at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. The zoo says in a news release that the two male and two female red wolf pups were born April 13 — the first new litter of red wolf pups at the zoo in nearly a decade.
The zoo says a snow leopard cub was born on April 30. It was the first pregnancy for the cub's 4-year-old mother, Alya, and 6-year-old father, Moutig, the zoo said, and the first snow leopard birth at the zoo since 2007.
The newborn is making history by being the first successful birth of the species as a result of induced ovulation and artificial insemination, according to the zoo.