Giraffes have a 15-month gestation period, and can live as long as 30 years in captivity. Babies stand up within an hour or two after being born.

There's a new resident to "spot" at Brevard Zoo. Lua, a 5-year-old jaguar, recently joined the zoo. She came to the Space ...

A baby porcupine whose name and sex are unknown was born recently at Fort Worth Zoo to two recently introduced porcupines.

There's a new baby lemur at a the Jacksonville Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Florida. It's the zoo's first-ever Crowned lemur and it was born May 1. Crowned lemurs are native to Madagascar ...

Spring is approaching and one sure sign of the season are the new babies at the San Diego Zoo ... animal species. “After 38 years of being here, I still get giddy and excited,” she said of new ...

Sloth Crossing is the newest exhibit at the Jacksonville ... on the zoo's $52 million Rezoovenation campaign to add a reimagined entrance, manatee exhibit and more to enhance animal welfare ...

The baby zebra's name honors his mother, another zebra on the farm named Barbara Johnson. "He likes people more than he does other animals," Brooks said. BJ and his other petting zoo friends ...

All three animals died as a result of shigellosis ... in Illinois in 1989 and was hand-reared by humans due to an injury she sustained as a baby, Jacksonville Zoo said in her bio. She and her daughter ...

All three animals died as a result of shigellosis ... hand-reared by humans due to an injury she sustained as a baby, Jacksonville Zoo said in her bio. She and her daughter Madini, joined ...

Shigella is a bacteria that causes diarrhea, vomiting, cramps and dehydration. While more severe in apes, people also can get infected.