It's the most wonderful time of the year at the Oakland Zoo's sixth annual Glowfari. "When you come and see this, you see the landmarks in Oakland," Nik Dehejia, the CEO of the Oakland Zoo, told CBS ...

Oakland Zoo’s “Glowfari” lantern festival kicked off on Nov. 7 and has already drawn thousands to the popular annual event. New this year is the “Future of Oakland” exhibit, a centerpiece that ...

A video showing a chimpanzee smoking a cigarette at a zoo in southern China has spread rapidly online, raising concerns about animal welfare and visitor behavior. The footage, captured at Nanning Zoo ...

Over the last four months, the L.A. Zoo has welcomed the birth of five great apes, including a gorilla, orangutan and three chimpanzees. Here's how staff are managing their care.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Los Angeles Zoo welcomed the birth of a baby gorilla, the fifth and latest addition in a recent baby boom of ...

Royal Oak — Detroit Zoo visitors will soon see a small, new four-legged friend as part of the zoo's giraffe family. The zoo announced this week that a baby giraffe was born Sunday morning. The female ...

Keepers at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore are getting ready to welcome an older chimpanzee from the San Francisco Zoo. Twiggy will be arriving in the next couple of months, and it turns out she is ...

Tula, a 6-year-old Bactrian camel who lived her entire life at the Detroit Zoo, has died, the zoo announced Wednesday. The animal, who suffered from a degenerative ligament condition that affected her ...

She worried that she was inadequate at love, until she became a mother. By Sasha Weiss ...

Captive chimpanzees are one of the most popular species kept in zoos because of their charismatic appeal and similarity to humans. They are the closest living relatives of humans because of the shared ...

Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit. Careful measurements show that their typical fruit diet can equal one to two human drinks each day. This ...