American Idiots Arrested in Japan for Climbing Into Punch the Monkey’s Zoo Enclosure
Punch became internet famous for surviving abandonment; now he survives content creators.
Drew Curtis
Today in Monkeys: Pair Smuggle Them in Underwear; Punch’s Enclosure Invaded
Primates actually were much smarter than these humans.
Bram Teitelman
Komodo Dragon Chows Down On Stuffed Animals
Because why hug a stuffed animal when you can stuff yourself with one or two?
Bram Teitelman
North Korea’s Zoo Is a “Shih Tzu” With a Shih Tzu
And a guy named Tzu to clean up all the shih.
Drew Curtis
Danish Zoo Offers Tax Deductions for Donating Your Pets To Be Eaten by Its Animals
Please check the "Predator Feeding" box on line 28e.
Drew Curtis
Escaped Wallaby in New York Hops to It
If anyone spots a bounding marsupial loose in central New York State, it just might be the same one.
Gabe Herman
Missing Pink: Young Flamingo Somehow Escapes from Zoo
There's lax security, and then there's losing track of a four-month-old bird.
Gabe Herman
Getcher “Bloodsickles” He-ah! Denver Zoo Finds Creative Ways to Keep Animals Cool This Summer
It’s a scorcher out there, and humans aren’t the only ones feeling the heat. At the Denver zoo, animals are being given a little extra love with cool baths, shade, and, for some carnivorous feline connoisseurs, blood on ice.
Liz Days
Makeup Test: Zoo Goers in China Upset That “Pandas” Were Just Dogs With Dyed Fur
Chow Chow dogs were black and white, and red all over - from embarrassment - after being dyed to resemble panda bears.
Gabe Herman
Hippo Typo: Female Hippo Wrongfully Thought to be Male
A female hippo at a Japanese Zoo had been assumed to be male for 7 years, despite big warning signs such as not having a penis.
Elon Altman
Four-Letter Birds: Cussing Parrots Are All the Rage at English Zoo
The African Grey parrots and their blue language are getting lots of local and worldwide attention for their potty mouths, which are equal parts offensive, adorable, and hilarious.
Gabe Herman
Black, White, and Fled: Zebras Escape Transport, Corralled by Rodeo Clown
Some Washington state motorists and residents were treated to a private zoo visit from some outlaws wearing stripes: A herd of escaped zebras.
Katie Compa
Clone Grown: 2 More Ferrets Copied from a 1980s Original
Black-footed ferrets were almost added to the roster of extinct species, but breeding efforts have helped to increase their numbers, and two new test-tube babies have just joined the fight to save this species in… THE GAME OF CLONES.
Liz Days
Dark Side of the Zoo: Observing Animals’ Reactions to the Total Eclipse
For Monday’s eclipse, the hot ticket in town (if your town is in the path of totality) might be to zoos and animal parks that want help observing what the animals do.
Katie Compa
