Zoo

Love is in the Air: The Biblical Zoo's new pair of tigers have moved in together

As Tu B'Av and International Tiger Day coincide, Rimba and Jakarta have completed months of courtship and begun living together. The Jerusalem Zoo hopes they will help save an endangered species.

A pair of tigers. Illustration.
A brown bear gnaws at the cage it is trapped in in Sunagawa, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan October 16, 2024.

He went to work as usual: Husband investigated for burning wife's body in zoo’s animal incinerator

A wolf that went missing after escaping from its enclosure in O-world zoo, roams in the zoo premises in Daejeon, South Korea April 8, 2026 in this still image of surveillance footage video playing on a screen.

Elusive wolf in South Korea captured and returned to zoo after nine days on the run

A baby Japanese macaque named Punch sits next to a stuffed orangutan at Ichikawa City Zoo, in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, February 19, 2026.

Viral baby monkey Punch finds girlfriend


Daughter of couple who hid Jews at Warsaw Zoo dies

Zabinska-Zawadzki’s older brother, Ryszard Zabinski, died in 2019.

An Orthodox Jew walks through the Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw April 15, 2013. The 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising will be commemorated on April 19, 2013. Picture taken April 15, 2013.

Gorillas at San Diego Zoo Safari Park diagnosed with COVID-19

Three among the band of critically endangered western lowland gorillas at the sprawling wildlife park have shown symptoms of the respiratory virus.

Gorillas sit after two of their troop tested positive for COVID-19 after falling ill at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park

Russian bear, tigers predict Biden will win US elections

The predictive prowess of the Royev Rochey Zoo inhabitants made headlines in 2016 when one of its residents, a polar bear named Felix, predicted Trump's victory over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

Brown bear 747 stands in a river hunting for salmon to fatten up before hibernation at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, US, September 20, 2020.

New virus found only in Israeli bat with unknown human infection potential

The findings are significant as bats are reservoirs for emerging viruses, and have been attributed to virus outbreaks such as SARS, MERS and many more.

ONE OF THE Tel Aviv University researchers holds an Egyptian fruit bat last year.

Warsaw zoo will administrate CBD to its elephants to reduce their stress

The lucky elephants chosen to take part in the first-of-its-kind pilot, are three African elephants that will be administrated with the liquid doses of CBD extract through their trunks.

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'Tiger King' zoo closing down, owner blames animal rights 'loons

"As of today, we have decided to close the old zoo effective immediately."

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Police arrest three young men suspected of stealing expensive monkey

Police opened an investigation earlier this week after receiving a disappearance report for a expensive monkey, apparently worth thousands of shekels, from a zoo in Kiryat Motzkin.

The monkey that was stolen from the Kiryat Motzkin zoo

Siberian tiger kills zookeeper in Zurich

The tiger enclosure holds two Siberian tigers, a five-year-old female named Irinia and a four-year-old male called Sayan.

Siberian Tiger in the Philadelphia Zoo

The parrot can’t hurt you

She seemed neither happy nor sad, just matter-of-fact about her love.

ADMIRING FINE feathered friends on a 2018 visit to the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo. [Illustrative]

Meet Jerusalem Zoo's new cub: The lion called Lion

Lion’s sibling has not been named yet because zookeepers are waiting to discover its gender.

YASHA THE lioness is seen with her six-week-old Asiatic lion cubs, at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo in on May 6