University of Dayton Assistant Professor of Environmental History Daniel Vandersommers is using animal history to examine a storied American institution in his new book, Entangled Encounters at the ...

When San Diego native Georgeanne Irvine was a young child, her quaint bedroom was filled with plush animals, including a lion, two teddy bears, a tiger, monkey, an elephant and others. “I made up ...

SAN DIEGOChuck Bieler spent five decades helping lead the San Diego Zoo. Not bad for a guy who walked in not knowing a lion from a tiger. He was there in 1972 when the Balboa Park-based zoo opened the ...

TV personality Kathi Diamant, recognizable to PBS audiences during pledge drive programming, is excited about the recent publishing of “Heart of the Zoo,” a 314-page book she wrote about the ...

Clown, with three other polar bears at the Washington Park Zoo, circa 1915-1920. You may recall all of the excitement there was when some thought there was a “Milwaukee lion” roaming around back in ...

. America's first zoo has a long and proud history as a conservancy and will soon celebrate a newly written children's book that tells the true story of a young Amur Tiger cub. Titled “A Family For ...

Standing inside the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden today — surrounded by sprawling habitats, world-class veterinary ...

Dr. Michael Warshaw is a veterinarian who never treats a dog. But he does look after cats. Some really, really big cats. And giraffes, elephants, zebras, snakes and so much more. In all, as the ...

DULUTH — No grin and bear it here. A veterinary dentist, Dr. Grace Brown, dug into the maw of Tundra, a 6-year-old Alaskan brown bear, on Monday at the Lake Superior Zoo, breaking new ground. Brown ...

When the position at the Minot zoo opened, "I jumped on it and said, 'Hey, I really want to try something new — might as well try North Dakota,' " Dr. Logan Wood said. Dr. Logan Wood, veterinarian at ...