A Japanese zoo is fighting back after authorities in Hokkaido prefecture issued a closure order for the facility exhibiting around 150 animal species. The zoo, located in a mountainous area 20km ...

Keepers at a Japanese zoo are suspected of killing dozens of squirrels after giving them medicine used to kill parasites. Tokyo's Inokashira Park Zoo has launched a probe into the incident after the ...

TOBE, Japan (WLS) -- An annual training event at a Japanese zoo has become something of a spectacle. The Tobe Zoo held its annual escaped tiger drill Thursday, which features a staff member dressed up ...

March 15 (UPI) --A Japanese zoo held an escaped animal training drill featuring a costumed performer mimicking the behavior of a fugitive white tiger. The Tobu Zoo in Miyashiro Town, Saitama ...

SHIRAHAMA, Japan (AP) — Thousands of fans bid a teary farewell Friday to a family of four giant pandas at a zoo in Japan’s coastal town of Shirahama as the animals made their last public appearance ...

The Asa Zoological Park in Hiroshima, Japan, held what might be the cutest emergency drill ever this past Sunday. The zoo had a worker cosplay as a bear on the loose to simulate an animal escape. The ...

A zoo in Japan has introduced a ban on unaccompanied male visitors following repeated incidents of harassment directed at its female owner and female guests. The decision, which has sparked both ...

Penguins at a zoo in Japan have been caught on camera turning their beaks up at the cheaper fish being offered to them. The Hakone-en Aquarium, home to over 30,000 individual animals, began feeding ...

Critically endangered species and ones banned from international trade are among the hundreds of types of birds, reptiles and mammals that researchers identified at 142 animal cafes. By Rachel Nuwer ...