The baby boy’s mother is Johari. She gave birth at approximately 1:30 p.m.

This week, the Philadelphia Zoo, the oldest zoo in the United States just had it's new 15 month-old giraffe introduced to it's new herd!

In light of the recent tiger attack on a staff member at Big Cat Rescue, Tampa, FL) and reading the cause and excuse that BCR attempts are very troubling.

The zoo had announced on Wednesday that the diminutive, raccoon-like creature had gone missing. Zookeepers who care for her had hoped she would return on her own, since she recently gave birth to two cubs who are still nursing.

"Overall, zoos provide opportunities to observe and engage with exotic animals, many of which may be threatened with extinction in the wild. Seeing them up close can spark a passion for biology, conservation and the environment."

The Cincinnati Zoo is welcoming a new baby to its zoo family, a tiny guereza colobus monkey. The monkey was born early Friday morning. Mom, 6-year-old Anza, and baby, sex not yet determined, are doing great and bonding with the rest of the group.

For years Big Cat Rescue (BCR) has disguised one of their primary activities to end the private zoo ownership (zoo’s other than AZA) of big cats in the United States. However, this appears to be the exact opposite of their activities.

Judges in the New York Supreme Court have dismissed a lawsuit against the Bronx Zoo in which an animal welfare advocacy organization sought to declare Happy, an Asian elephant, a person with a right to be free.

This female African penguin chick hatched Jan. 14 at Vilas Zoo. A second female chick hatched Jan. 17. The two chicks will be named this month, the zoo said. One penguin hatched on Jan. 14, and the other followed three days later on Jan. 17.

Just days after the terrible tragedy at the Krefeld Zoo blaze, PETA pushes their anti-zoo agenda, once again making it well known that PETA wants to kill off all zoo’s.

A rapidly urbanizing world means that people are less likely to live near fields or woods, and an increase in scheduled activities means less time to wander through vacant lots. Thus “managed” encounters with nature, like visits to zoos and aquariums, provide an increasingly important opportunity for contact with other species.

There’s a new twist in the strange tale of Dan Ashe, CEO of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, a private accreditor of many of the major zoos and aquariums in the U.S. When we checked in on Ashe last year, he was allowing PETA to have a booth at AZA’s annual meeting.