A newborn baby okapi will make its first appearance this weekend at the Houston Zoo's first Dia de los Muertos celebration.

Saturday marked a momentous occasion at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida, where officials announced an African elephant calf was born at the park for the first time in seven years. The baby girl ...

Corra, a 2-month-old African elephant, skipped onto the savanna for the first time at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park on Thursday morning. Within that first hour, she scampered alongside mom ...

Gaylene Thomas, a wildlife care manager at the San Diego Zoo, oversees two teams that care for a variety of species, ...

The first two African elephants born at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium arrived less than one month apart on Jan. 7 and Jan. 30 Days after welcoming its first-ever African elephant calf, Omaha's ...

DENVER — Denver Zoo on Wednesday announced the birth of its first African penguin chick in three years, but to ensure a healthy birth, zookeepers had to pull a bait-and-switch on the first-time ...

The Erie Zoo has several new animals, including a male black-and-white ruffed lemur, two female Père David’s deer and two female kangaroos. The zoo will host Glow Wild, a Chinese lantern festival, on ...

PORT CLINTON, Ohio — African Safari Wildlife Park in Port Clinton has announced the birth of a pair of mountain bongo antelope calves. The park says one youngster was born to mother Aurora on June 18, ...

When I imagined our first family safari, our 10-month-old daughter in tow, I never pictured releasing her onto the wild red Kalahari Desert sand to join a mob of 15 meerkats. (And yes, that's the ...

Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and ...

The 218-pound newborn, named Corra, is also the first second-generation calf to be born at the Orlando theme park Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...