How the Zoological Society of London Helps People Overcome Arachnophobia
The Friendly Spider Program combines cognitive behavioral therapy, group hypnosis, and playtime with actual spiders.
The Friendly Spider Program combines cognitive behavioral therapy, group hypnosis, and playtime with actual spiders.
The adorable banded palm civet is being raised by his parents, out of sight of visitors.
Creatures great and small stepped on the scale for their annual check up—whether they realized it or not.
Incredible and heartbreaking images of zoo animals roaming the streets.
Have you ever visited the local zoo and found yourself wondering how a juicy hunk of boiled penguin breast might taste? Just about every creature under the sun has been sautéed, deep-fried, and/or sprinkled over a pizza at some point in human history.
Plenty of zoos, aquariums, and wildlife parks have put together fun—and safe!—ways to interact with some of their finest residents in a very hands-on manner.
Put a wild animal in a cage, and it’s bound to act differently. Zoologists and vets have many strategies to help an animal get settled and normalize its behavior in captivity. Psychological changes can be overcome with animal enrichment programs that keep
Rhinos are amazing and massive animals that easily capture the imagination of their admirers both at zoos and in the wild. Unfortunately, they’re facing serious threats and their numbers are dwindling lower all the time. In honor of Endangered Species Day
No matter how many mistakes your mother may have made, there’s no way she's in the same class as these animal mothers.
Ota Benga, a young Pygmy, spent part of September 1906 on display at what is now the Bronx Zoo. It wasn't the first time he had been exhibited as an oddity.
All across the country, people are hot and miserable. Perhaps this collection of adorable animals cooling off with icy snacks will help.
People go to zoos to see the animals from exotic locales we couldn’t get to on our own. But some of these animals can’t be seen anywhere except zoos. These are the animals that are extinct in the wild, dependent on the keepers and zoo breeding programs fo