Over the last four months, the L.A. Zoo has welcomed the birth of five great apes, including a gorilla, orangutan and three ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Animal caretakers are raising a baby orangutan that was recently born at Utah's Hogle Zoo. Bornean orangutan Kawan delivered her baby on June 21. Both the 24-year-old mother and ...

In August of 2013, the world was stricken by Bao Bao Fever. So incredibly cute was the National Zoo's new giant panda cub that nine-to-fivers inexplicably cooed at their co-workers. Precious man hours ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For the first time in over a decade, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo staff are celebrating a new baby at the zoo’s Primate World habitat – a critically endangered ...

Smokey Bear. Ham the Space Chimp. Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling. Not many animals reach celebrity status, but it’s a bit of a tradition here at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. In January, we rolled out ...

The infant was born to a 27-year-old mom named Kumi Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like Bustle, LAMag, and ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Columbus Zoo’s baby elephant now has a name after it made its debut last month. The baby Asian elephant is named Rita Jean, after Rita Jean Wolfe, a member of Wolfe family with ...

Dad Jabari, a 17-year-old giraffe who has called Detroit Zoo home since 2008, is part of a close-knit giraffe family that ...

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Zoo has announced the birth of a baby boy Bornean orangutan, the first such primate baby at the zoo in almost 15 years. The unnamed auburn-haired infant was born Oct. 10, ...

The calf does not yet have a name, but zoo staff plans to let the public decide via a general vote Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously ...