In a Facebook post filled with images of Penelope, the zoo said it's the perfect time to come visit her and her round belly.

The 7-year-old female pygmy hippo arrived at John Ball Zoo in the summer of 2023 from the Toronto Zoo in Canada.

John Ball Zoo is expecting a new addition. Penelope, one of the zoo’s pygmy hippos, is pregnant, the zoo announced in a Thursday social media post. It will be the pygmy hippo’s first calf. “This is an ...

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento Zoo will remain in Land Park for at least three more years after the city council voted to extend its operating agreement with the Sacramento Zoological ...

Starting June 20, the zoo says it is offering special visiting passes that will allow a limited number of guests to see Titali and her mother inside the Giraffe House. “At her young age, Titali ...

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The Zoo is scheduled to open Friday at 9 a.m., but the North America Trek is scheduled to open at 11 a.m., the Zoo website said. Click here for ticket information.

DES MOINES, Iowa — A rare rhino will have a new home at Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines. Ajani Joe, known as “AJ," was born at the Cincinnati Zoo in 2020.

Marie the red panda died at Buttonwood Park Zoo in May 2025. (Buttonwood Park Zoo) NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WLNE) — Buttonwood Park Zoo announced that red panda Marie had died on May 28.

BROOKFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- Brookfield Zoo Chicago has announced the sudden death of a four-day old bottlenose dolphin. A dolphin named Allie gave birth early Saturday morning, zoo officials said ...