The alert was "mistakenly activated," and "there was no emergency," a rep for the zoo told PEOPLE in a statement Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

A group of male lemurs, affectionately described as bachelors, were very enthusiastic about what a zoo described as a “summer ...

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A false alarm sparked chaos at Melbourne Zoo in Australia earlier today as patrons feared there was a baboon on the loose. Visitors to the zoo were either evacuated or put into lockdown this afternoon ...

Jan. 2 (UPI) --Officials at Australia's Melbourne Zoo assured the public that no baboons are on the loose after a false alarm sent the facility into lockdown for about 10 minutes. Visitors to the zoo ...

Peter Stroud wrote of the horrible conditions the elephant lived in for 25 years. “Bong Su is dead Not because he reached old age, but because he was broken by cramped and impoverished zoo conditions ...

A group of zoogoers in Australia started the year with a fright. On Tuesday, visitors at the Melbourne Zoo went into temporary lockdown after an emergency alarm was accidentally triggered, informing ...