Michael Brown works for the Giraffe Conservation Foundation and is an affiliated researcher for the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. He receives funding from the Giraffe ...

Scientists have long hypthesized that apes living in Africa more than 20 million years ago had a diet largely comprised of fruit while living in a continet-wide ecosystem comprised of thick, closed ...

Many herbivore animals face salt shortages because plants vary in sodium. This shortage shapes movement, safety, and survival ...

Milwaukee County Zoo opened its new rhino and hippo habitat Dec. 5, completing its Adventure Africa project, a $50 million ...

Aim: African Melastomateae (Melastomataceae) comprise c. 185 species occurring in closed or open habitats throughout sub-Saharan Africa. We sought to reconstruct biogeographical and habitat history, ...

For months, visitors to the Oklahoma City Zoo have been met with construction fences blocking off a large portion of the zoo. Now, all 12 acres of the zoo's largest habitat expansion are open to the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – John Ball Zoo is looking to build and populate an at least $20 million giraffe habitat with accompanying animals from Africa with the help of federal stimulus dollars administered ...

Eight African penguins hatched at the Maryland Zoo during the recent breeding season, adding to the population of the ...

Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and ...

TULSA, Okla. — The Tulsa Zoo broke ground on its new William S. Smith African Wilds exhibit on Wednesday. It will span 7 acres and create new habitats for the zoo's lions, painted dogs, meerkats and ...