Elephant update: Kate has now been fully introduced to new bull Emmett. From the zoo's Facebook: "This is the next step in fully integrating all...
Moderator note: this topic split from here: Tierpark Berlin News 2019 [Berlin Tierpark] -After the continuing failures with the aardwolves, it...
"Montenegro’s Institute of Marine Biodiversity is building an aquarium, with the new attraction to sit underneath the Marine Biodiversity...
A quiz for all you budding biologists: off the top of your head, how many extant animal phyla can you name? I’ll recognise 35 and Wikipedia...
A new zoo book has been published, Zoo Animals: Husbandry, Welfare and Public Interactions, edited by Maja Berger and Sarah Corbett. The online...
Following the success of Big Cats, the BBC Natural History Unit is making a follow-up series: Primates. The three episodes will focus on primate...
New photos and a map of Plymouth Zoo (1962-1978). Unseen pictures of Plymouth Zoo show what many of us never got to see
I just stumbled across this new zoo book, published last August. Anyone read it? The reviews are great....
Sea Life Malaysia has broken ground at Legoland Malaysia Resort. Legoland Malaysia to open aquarium resort at end of 2018
Also glad to see Oklahoma City Zoo is getting raccoon dogs. Given their invasiveness, it seems pretty darn irresponsible to me. Hopefully they'll...
This is cool. In partnership with IBM, Marwell has been trialling AI to heat animal houses more efficiently. How to build a better bed: IoT and...
Hi all. I'm looking for information on the short-lived Oxford Zoo (1931-1937). I know the outgoing animal collection nucleated Dudley, but I can't...
The Lithuanian Sea Museum's aquarium has reopened after renovations. Klaipeda sea museum's aquarium reopens after renovation
Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates 2016-2018 was launched on Tuesday. The list is not intended as a scientific ranking of...
I've recently been reading about the psychology of emotions, and one paper (Geng et al. 2013) struck me as relevant to the question of when to...
This new article discusses the persistence of a culture where conservation decision-making is not rigorously evidence-based, which the authors...
Freedom is generally considered a basic human right, albeit with caveats. To clarify, I mean freedom in a physical sense, ie. as the absence of...
Brilliant article on the UK Lynx Trust's bizarre strategy of aggressively-publicised over-optimism. How to reintroduce carnivores and alienate...
I recently spent some time around Perth Zoo searching unsuccessfully for palm squirrels. The introduced population has persisted for a century and...
The AZA Ungulate TAG, in partnership with Disney's Animal Kingdom, has published a comprehensive manual of ungulate mixed-species exhibits. The...
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