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The Los Angeles Zoo has a new baby Bornean orangutan, the first in nearly 15 years at the zoo. Bornean orangutans are categorized as “critically endangered” by the International Union for Conservation ...

Blood tests are a critical diagnostic tool for establishing a health baseline in pets, not just for detecting disease. The Complete Blood Count (CBC) assesses red cells, white cells, and platelets to ...

The Los Angeles Zoo announced Thursday that its chimpanzee troop has welcomed two healthy baby girls — the first chimps born at the zoo in more than a decade. The infants and their moms, Yoshi and ...

Scientists are learning more about bird and butterfly migration thanks to the Los Angeles Zoo's newly expanded Motus Wildlife Tracking Station. Alys Martinez reports. Supreme Court issues major ...

For the first time in five years the Los Angeles Zoo is home to wildly popular Tasmanian devils. Their name is derived from their origin on the island of Tasmania, and they are called “devils” due to ...

Chelsea Hylton is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. An Inglewood native, Hylton has her master's degree from USC. She covers local breaking news across the Southern California region. Before joining ...

The Los Angeles Zoo has released more than 600 endangered southern mountain yellow-legged frogs into the wild as part of a long-running recovery effort led by the U.S. Geological Survey. The release ...

Wild Summer Lights will be a Chinese lantern festival taking place in the evenings at the zoo. EVANSVILLE — A new event is coming to Mesker Park Zoo and Botanic Garden this August, and it will only be ...