OSAKA—Authorities here are seeking to prosecute a zookeeper who is suspected of repeatedly stealing food intended for the animals at Osaka Tennoji Zoo. Osaka prefectural police here sent papers ...

Osaka Tennoji Zoo announced on April 18 that Gen-chan, a 12-year-old hippopotamus that had been kept as a male, was actually female. Gen-chan never showed typical male behavior such as scattering ...

IKEDA, Osaka Prefecture—A marsupial from Australia kept at the Ikeda city-run Satsukiyama Zoo was listed in Guinness World Records as the oldest wombat ever in captivity. Wain celebrated his ...