May 6 (UPI) --A peacock that wandered away from his home at Tennessee's Chattanooga Zoo was found in a nearby resident's backyard the following day, officials said. The zoo said on social media that ...

A zoo in Tennessee just welcomed a new baby gorilla — and it is the first of its kind to be born there in nearly a decade. Zoo Knoxville announced the news in an Instagram post on Thursday, Nov. 20, ...

RIP, Kipekee ❤️ ...

Zoos around the country find different ways to draw in visitors. In California, for example, the Sequoia Park Zoo has a scenic skywalk through a towering redwood forest. For the Chattanooga Zoo in ...

A "beloved" sitatunga antelope died after choking on a squeezable fruit pouch left at Brights Zoo in Tennessee, the zoo announced on June 8. The family-owned zoo, located about 85 miles northeast of ...

The sudden death of Kipekee — one of only two known spotless giraffes in the world, and the only one in human care — is under investigation after the she died on Wednesday, Nov. 26, at just 2 years ...

LIMESTONE, Tenn. (WJHL) – One of the world’s rarest giraffes, which was born in July at the Brights Zoo in Tennessee, has been named Kipekee. The name, meaning unique in Swahili, was revealed Monday ...

LIMESTONE, Tenn. (Gray News/TMX) – A baby giraffe born without spots at a Tennessee zoo is believed to be the only one of her kind in the world, zoo officials said. The “world’s rarest” giraffe was ...

Zoo staff are trying to figure out how 33 reptiles died.Zoo representatives found 30 snakes dead on Wednesday morning at a reptile-area building, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported. The Zoo ...

The Memphis Zoo is expanding its Free Tennessee Tuesday program hours. Free admission will now begin at 9 a.m. instead of the previous 2 p.m. start time. Tickets must be reserved online in advance to ...