In the United States, heat waves break out every summer. While people can jump in their pools, go to the beach, hit the lake, or engage in other activities that keep them cool, animals at zoos do not ...

One of the best things that can happen to a zoo or aquarium is for one of their resident animals to go viral. Just look at the multi-hour-long lines to see Moo Deng, a pygmy hippo in Thailand who has ...

Many families enjoy an outing to the zoo on a warm summer day. People have been fascinated with exotic animals since ancient Egypt. And although zoos have been delighting visitors for ages, are they ...

Wild animals like lions, tigers and monkeys are often kept in tiny and barren enclosures, denied appropriate enrichment and used for public entertainment in ways that cause can stress, fear and ...

To ensure the animals' comfort, specific measures have been implemented. In the giraffe enclosure, heat lamps, air conditioning and underfloor heating have been installed, with straw covering the ...

A few months ago I posted an essay titled "It's Still Not Happening at the Zoo: Sharp Divisions Remain" that was a summary of a meeting held at the Detroit zoo called "Zoos and Aquariums as Welfare ...