Zoos

Respecting an animal and serving up his or her dead body on a plate are two very different things. That’s why we’ve just written to aquaria across the country.

London Zoo’s stubborn insistence on not cancelling its “Zoo Lates” events reveals the institution’s true priorities.

Letting drunken humans spend a night out in a zoo was never going to be a good idea.

Marius, an 18-month-old giraffe killed by a zoo in Denmark, isn’t the only animal who recently died for no reason in captivity.

The public killing of Marius, the 18-month-old giraffe, at Copenhagen Zoo on Sunday, prompted PETA Germany to send its own message to the zoo’s managers.

Yesterday, Marius, an 18-month-old giraffe, was killed by the Copenhagen Zoo and fed to lions, as he was considered useless for breeding.

It was reported this week that the Humboldt penguins at Scarborough Sea Life Sanctuary have been prescribed antidepressants because they’re so unhappy.

After months of build-up, Edinburgh Zoo has at last admitted today that its giant panda, Tian Tian, is not pregnant.

Reading the story of a baby elephant in a Chinese zoo who wept for five hours after his mother twice tried to kill him yesterday almost made us cry.

Weymouth’s Sea Life aquarium launched an appeal to its visitors asking them not to eat octopuses because they are “as intelligent as the average pet dog”.