African elephants confined to ‘tiny prison cells’ without access to water. Polar bears locked indoors with nothing but a ...

Many families enjoy an outing to the zoo on a warm summer day. People have been fascinated with exotic animals since ancient ...

A Syrian brown bear had a seven-day snooze after being rescued from a tiny filthy prison - a cage he was welded inside.

For older generations, animals were mostly viewed in cages at local zoos. But as animal care practices have evolved, we’ve been able to watch polar bears, gorillas, lions and even beluga whales ...

Zoos are ethically bound to care for the ... as if an invisible cage surrounded the groups. Animal welfare and the use of space Space use is difficult to interpret in terms of animal welfare ...

From the welfare point of view it is wrong to keep an animal in a zoo if the animal has a less pleasant life than it would have outside the zoo. Reasons why people think keeping animals in zoos is ...

“Many zoos used to keep their animals in cages surrounded by concrete walls out of concerns for their unpredictable behavior,” said Koshiro Watanuki, 33, a veterinarian who serves as a member ...

Dutch zoos need to do more to protect wild animals and look more critically at the types of animals they keep, a government ...

In 2021, a female white-handed gibbon became pregnant, confusing Japanese zookeepers who believed a male money had never ...

However, little seems to have changed inside the walls of the zoo. “It is no credit to Hong Kong to have animals in cages like that,” said animal behaviourist, Cynthia Smillie. “There hasn ...

The animals remain confined in cages at restaurants, hotels and roadside zoos without sufficient food, water or space to move.