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.

WTOP’s Matt Kaufax talks with animal keeper Charlie Shaw, who cares for big cats at the National Zoo, about the vital ...

Viewers can watch a litter of black-footed ferrets and their mother, 2-year-old Aristides, on a temporary live webcam.

Carnivore keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, welcomed a litter of endangered black-footed ferrets last week. Three-year-old ...

The digital age has gifted us with many things. The ability to stream TV shows and movies, entire music albums, and even live ...

Sling Money, the app making global money movement instant and low-cost, today launched US and European Virtual Accounts, marking an expansion beyond peer-to-peer transactions to enable users to ...

"This is a blatantly inhumane choice knowing that there was the option to send both of them to a sanctuary to live out their lives rather than into another lock-up zoo situation." She adds ...

Tulsa Zoo has released the first look of Billy and Tina -- the L.A. Zoo elephants who were secretly transferred to Oklahoma in the dead of night this week. Despite many protests and celebrity outrage, ...

Israeli tanks and drones attacked a hospital in northern Gaza overnight, igniting fires and causing extensive damage, Palestinian hospital officials said on Thursday. Videos taken by a health official ...

"They deserve to live with peace and dignity in a sanctuary, and that's what we’re going to keep fighting for." The LA Zoo announced plans for the move in April, appearing to signal a ...

“At a sanctuary, they could live as nature intended,” Davis said Wednesday. “They need massive swaths of land; they need varied terrain.” The LA Zoo said in a statement Wednesday that the ...

Qing Bao and Bao Li will live at the National Zoo until April 2034, according to the agreement. Many of the behaviors the panda keepers saw in Bao Li were similar to his grandfather, Tian Tian ...