A former zoo owner, Frank Thompson, brought Connie to the U.S. with seven other elephant babies who were orphaned in Zimbabwe in 1987 when poachers killed the adults in the herd for their tusks.

Brookfield Zoo Chicago opened its new Tropical Forests primate habitat Friday, featuring an expanded space for the zoo’s first troop of bachelor gorillas and endangered black-handed spider monkeys ...

The land of the Basque people, split between Spain and France, is a "nation without a state” – left off the map when they ...

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