German zookeepers shot dead a lion on Thursday after two of the animals escaped from their enclosure and a tranquiliser failed to stop one of them, the zoo's director said.
A Belgian zoo on Thursday finally named a baby giant panda three months after its birth, calling it "Tian Bao", which means "Treasure of Heaven" in Chinese.
Animals evacuated this week from a zoo dubbed the "world's worst" in the Palestinian Gaza Strip have arrived at an animal shelter in Jordan.
A naturally conceived giant panda cub has been born in Vienna, the city's main zoo announced on Monday, a rare event that it said is unique in Europe to the Austrian capital.
With one bright blue eye and one brown, a koala with a rare condition has dazzled vets in Australia who have named her Bowie after the late singer.
Bantu, a 220-kilogram endangered gorilla who lived in the Mexico City zoo, has died after going into cardiac arrest when he was sedated in order to be moved to another zoo to try to mate, city authorities said.
Workers at the Cincinnati Zoo in the US state of Ohio shot and killed a gorilla after a three-year-old boy fell into its enclosure, officials said.
A male leopard which injured five people in Bengaluru earlier this month has escaped from a zoo, sparking a frantic search for the big cat, wildlife officials said yesterday.
A zebra “escaped” from its enclosure in a Japanese zoo yesterday, giving one zookeeper a heart attack and injuring another – at least that was the scenario of a drill aimed at dealing with runaway animals.
A zebra escaped from its enclosure in a Japanese zoo on Tuesday, giving one keeper a heart attack and injuring another - at least that was the scenario of a drill aimed at dealing with runaway animals.
