Two weeks after going on the lam, a giant tortoise that went missing from a zoo in Okayama Prefecture has been found safe and sound in bushes about 140 meters away from the spot where she made her getaway. The man and his teenage son, ...
The odds had been stacked against Hajar, a lion cub born just hours after its mother, Dana, rescued from a defunct zoo in war-torn Syria, was released into a wildlife reserve in Jordan. Dana and 12 other animals, including four other lions, two bears and ...
A Tokyo zoo said Tuesday it will stop displaying a giant panda believed to have become pregnant. Ueno Zoological Gardens said it will remove Shin Shin, 11, from public viewing from Thursday, after she began showing signs of pregnancy last week. A urine test has ...
A female giant panda at Tokyo's Ueno zoo has shown signs of being pregnant, including reduced appetite and longer sleeping times, the zoo's operator said. If 11-year-old Shin Shin does give birth, the cub will be the first giant panda born at Ueno Zoological Gardens ...
Two baby lion cubs were presented to the public at a zoo in Chile on Thursday, born after a pioneering veterinary procedure that involved a reversed vasectomy of their father. The cubs' mother, Masai, became pregnant after the father, Maucho, underwent the procedure, which vets ...
A man who fanned a "lion scare" with false tweets following the deadly earthquakes that hit Kumamoto last April has managed to avoid indictment. The Kumamoto District Public Prosecutor's Office said Wednesday the act of the 21-year-old man from Kanagawa Prefecture did not merit criminal ...
A zoo attendant in Nagano Prefecture was attacked and seriously wounded by a 90-kg lion on Sunday. According to police and local authorities, the 22-year-old keeper at a municipal zoo in Komoro was bitten in the chest and other areas several times by the 1.8-meter-long ...
A bear paces around a filthy cage next to a starving lion, the only two animals left in Mosul's zoo. At the edge of their tiny enclosures lies a lioness dead from starvation. Like much of the city, the once-peaceful animal park has been destroyed ...
The Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Chikusa Ward, Nagoya, has the largest number of giant anteaters. But few know the anteaters rarely get to eat their favorite dish. "Hey, they are not eating ants!" a visitor exclaimed, watching the animals extend their long tongues ...
A zoo in Shizuoka Prefecture is seeing a surge in visitors this summer after it started displaying an entirely white Mississippi alligator. The alligator is a 4-year-old female albino resulting from a mutation. It was brought from Germany and is the first of its kind ...
A prosecutor Monday announced no charges will be brought against the mother of the little boy who got into the gorilla exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo, saying the 3-year-old "just scampered off" as children sometimes do. The shooting of a 400-pound gorilla that was dragging ...
A chimpanzee that escaped from a Sendai zoo was caught Thursday afternoon in a nearby residential area after being shot with a tranquilizer gun and falling from power lines. The male chimpanzee Chacha was one of the five chimpanzees kept at the Yagiyama Zoological Park ...
