An elephant at Melbourne Zoo has suddenly died after being diagnosed with a virus, leaving his keepers "devastated" and the rest of his herd "grieving".
A spokesperson said a Javan Gibbon was having too much fun while swinging in its enclosure and found himself "in a tree outside of his habitat" on Tuesday afternoon.
A man is accused of breaking into a Florida theme park, jumping into an alligator enclosure and filming a video for social media – a dangerous stunt that authorities say led to his arrest.
Videos and images of the zebra wandering through the streets of Seoul flooded social media after it escaped from the Seoul Children's Grand Park Zoo on Thursday.
Dental technicians at the Australian Reptile Park were given the task of fixing the smile on their crocodile, after he had a tooth break through his bottom jaw.
A fortnight after five lions escaped at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, an amused zoo visitor captured footage of Echo the superb lyrebird as he mimicked alarm sirens.
Taronga Zoo has released more details about last week's lion escape, citing a "clamp failure" as the main reason the animals were able to "squeeze through" a mesh fence.
The black-and-white image depicts a figure that is standing up on what appears to be two legs and has what looks like two arms and a head that resembles a dog.