Jemma’s arrival is part of a wider effort to maintain healthy zoo populations and support the long-term survival of the species.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A breeding program at the Bronx Zoo allowed scientists to release 15 young cottontail rabbits, the only rabbit species native to ...

Brexit has had "a major impact" on zoo breeding programmes across Europe, according to an Essex zoo. More than 60 species at Colchester Zoo have taken part in breeding programmes, but its zoological ...

A UK zoo has welcomed two of the world's most endangered parrots as part of a breeding program to help save them from extinction. The pair of red-fronted macaws have arrived at Twycross Zoo in Little ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI)– The Idaho Falls Zoo at Tautphaus Park's lion, Hondo, is heading to a zoo in Pittsburgh as part of a nationwide breeding program to preserve animal populations. The Idaho ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A female capybara has arrived at a Florida zoo as part of a breeding program to bolster the population of the large South American rodents. Iyari, a 10-month-old capybara, went ...

The Pittsburgh Zoo says it has big plans after receiving its most significant donation ever. The zoo on Wednesday announced that it received a $10 million gift from donors who want to remain anonymous ...

Members of the House Regulatory Reform Committee on Thursday gave their approval to an amendment of the state’s Large Carnivore Act, following testimony from Michigan zoos noting that the current ...

For more than 30 years, Billy the elephant was one of Los Angeles’ most famous residents. When the Los Angeles Zoo secretly shipped him and his zoo mate, Tina, to Oklahoma in the dead of night last ...