Staff at Smithsonian’s National Zoo in the District are mourning the death of a male gray seal, Gunther, at the age of 33, the zoo said. Keepers first noticed Gunther’s lack of appetite and ...

Gray seal Gunther opens his mouth on cue during a training session with an American Trail animal keeper. (Connor Mallon, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute ...

Buttonwood Park Zoo's male Atlantic harbor seal Blue died Wednesday after a sudden illness. The seal was 21 years old. Atlantic harbor seals live about 25 years on average. Blue was the sole ...

After two days of sudden closure with little explanation, Buttonwood Park Zoo announced Thursday that Blue, its male Atlantic harbor seal, died early Wednesday. The death comes just over a month ...

The Avian Influenza has claimed the lives of a Harbor Seal and a Chilean Flamingo at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. The zoo announced they received results that confirmed the highly pathogenic Avian ...

Organizers said the puppies’ new families will also get to leave with a care package, courtesy of the Nashville Zoo and its community partners. In addition to this “paws-itively cute” event ...

The McCormick Bird House would be closed "until further notice," the zoo said. Two animal deaths at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago have been traced to an outbreak of avian influenza, or bird flu ...

Bird flu is being cited as the cause of the recent deaths of a Chilean flamingo and harbor seal at Lincoln Park Zoo, the zoo announced. The flamingo, named Teal, hatched last fall and “was just ...

Lincoln Park Zoo Share Bird flu is being cited as the cause of the recent deaths of a Chilean flamingo and harbor seal at Lincoln Park Zoo, the zoo announced Wednesday. The flamingo, named Teal ...