Woodland Park Zoo is redesigning its Family Farm into Wild Encounters, featuring new up-close animal experiences, a lorikeet aviary, and giant tortoises, with the first phase opening this summer.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Thursday, April 9, 2015, photo, Chai, an Asian elephant, is watched by visitors at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. | ...

Woodland Park Zoo will feature two giant tortoises for its "Wild Encounters" exhibit, and visitors will soon be able to touch ...

The Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle is preparing to release more than two dozen western pond turtles back into the wild. The zoo and the state Fish and Wildlife Department are weighing and putting ...

SEATTLE -- A baby giraffe with leg abnormalities is getting a little help taking its first steps, thanks to some custom-made therapeutic shoes. When the giraffe was just 5 days old, zookeepers at the ...

Sriracha and Tzatziki are the big cats on campus at Pana‘ewa Rainforest Zoo in Hilo. You’d think whichever way the zoo’s star attractions weigh in on the most important matters of the day — such as ...

A zoo day is typically filled with treats, animals and the inevitable toddler meltdown at the penguin exhibit. Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo is reimagining this typical zoo day, taking the possibility ...