Many families enjoy an outing to the zoo on a warm summer day. People have been fascinated with exotic animals since ancient Egypt. And although zoos have been delighting visitors for ages, are they ...

One of the best things that can happen to a zoo or aquarium is for one of their resident animals to go viral. Just look at the multi-hour-long lines to see Moo Deng, a pygmy hippo in Thailand who has ...

For travelers seeking the wonder of wildlife without the cruelty of captivity, hologram zoos around the world are transforming animal tourism. A decade ago I wrote an article titled For the 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 zoo called "Zoos and Aquariums as Welfare ...

Until now, contraception has been the method of choice for zoos to avoid surplus animals. Researchers are now calling for a paradigm shift: zoos could preserve their breeding populations, raise ...

The question at hand in this short essay is, “How can zoos and aquariums foster cultures of care and conservation?” The quick answer: there are many, varied ways. Zoos exist mainly to entertain humans ...

Samantha Ward is the welfare specialist on the Zoo Experts Committee, part of DEFRA, who helped write the new zoo standards. If you visit a zoo, you might be captivated by the animals you see — ...

The way lions, tigers, bears and eagles hunt, kill and ultimately eat their prey can be a grisly, brutal business that some humans prefer not to think about. When these animals are kept captive in ...