A breeding program at the Bronx Zoo allowed scientists to release 15 young cottontail rabbits, the only rabbit species native to New England, into three areas in Maine as part of an effort to prevent ...

Members of the House Regulatory Reform Committee on Thursday gave their approval to an amendment of the state’s Large Carnivore Act, following testimony from Michigan zoos noting that the current ...

When state officials inspected the zoo’s giraffes back in April, they made a shocking discovery: two of the giraffes that had previously been pregnant had given birth. Their calves were nowhere in ...

Until Michigan lawmakers intervened, incidents at Michigan zoos involving a raccoon-turned-trespasser and an aggressive pygmy hippo threatened breeding programs zoo leaders describe as critical to ...

Fifteen young New England cottontail rabbits born at a New York City zoo have been released into the wild in Maine as part of an effort to save the only rabbit species native to New England from ...