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Ume, a Malayan tapir calf, will make her debut Friday, May 16, at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, the zoo said ...

Qing Bao bleated at Bao Li, and he bleated back. There was also some sniffing and calling for each other’s attention, a sign ...

Discover the rare agave plant bloom at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium's unique botanical unicorn event, 17 years in the ...

An endangered baby animal that looks like a “walking watermelon” has spent months with her mom learning new skills at a Washington zoo.

Carolina Miranda, a former columnist for the LA Times, wrote in the Washington Post an op-ed likening El Salvador's infamous CECOT prison to a human zoo, decrying its use for political purposes ...

Nineteen northwestern pond turtles reared at the Oregon Zoo were returned to the wild. Footage shows staff releasing the reptiles in ponds along the Columbia River Gorge in Washington, where the ...

Oil secretions. Enthusiastic bleats. I couldn't help but wonder: Do Qing Bao and Bao Li know what they're getting into?