Edmonton’s Valley Zoo held a coming out party Thursday for its newest resident, a baby squirrel monkey.
The newcomer, born Feb. 1, will ride on its mother’s back for the next six to 10 weeks. Once it becomes more independent, zookeepers will be able to examine the infant to determine its gender.
“It’s always good to have [...]

CALGARY – Zoo management suspended an experienced keeper Monday after a gorilla nearly escaped from its pen when it leaped from a pile of ice in his yard, pulled himself onto a glass fence and sat perched on the ledge.
Officials say the incident happened about 8 a.m. The zoo hadn’t yet opened so there was [...]

It took only a split second for Soli the dog to swallow a diamond worth more than $20,000 — but it took, er, more than a day to get it back.
It all happened when a diamond dealer was showing a 3-carat dazzler to store owner George Kaufmann at Robert Bernard Jewelers in Potomac, Md., on [...]

An antelope at the Valley Zoo has died after escaping from a holding pen, zoo officials said Thursday.
The animal, a six-year-old addax, escaped onto the zoo grounds as workers were cleaning a stall in the barn where she was kept. She ran through a gate that had been left open in the holding pen.
The animal [...]

BEIJING – Eleven rare Siberian tigers kept in small cages and fed only chicken bones have died of malnutrition at a cash-strapped zoo in China’s frigid northeast, state media said Friday.
A manager at the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in Liaoning province, however, said the animals had died of disease.
Siberian tigers are one of the [...]

LAKESIDE, Calif. – A California woman has been arrested after animal control officers found 60 dogs in crates inside her small Lakeside home east of San Diego.
Sixty-five-year-old Alice Via was arrested Wednesday for investigation of animal cruelty and neglect. She ran what she called the San Diego Boxer Rescue, and kept mostly boxers and Chihuahuas.
San [...]

California legislators are moving forward with plans to create a public, online, animal abuser registry identical in function to the public sex offender registry.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1969346,00.html

About two weeks before Christmas, Deacon, an 85-pound German shepherd, went missing from his family home in rural Stuart, Va.
During the first couple of days, Pamela Holt, her husband Keith, and their daughter Brooklyn, 3, weren't terribly worried because they figured their nearly 2-year-old pet was running in the fields behind their home.
"We have a [...]

ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) — Oregon authorities say the 4-year-old daughter of a reality TV show star was mauled to death by the family's Rottweiler.
Clatsop County Sheriff Tom Bergin says Ashlynn Anderson's mother found her badly injured on their lawn in Astoria on Sunday. Ashlynn is the daughter of Jesse Browning, who stars with his father [...]

WERNERSVILLE, Pennsylvania – An eastern Pennsylvania man was attacked and killed by a "temperamental" pet bull a day before his 53rd birthday, the coroner's office said Monday.
Ricky Weinhold was attacked Saturday by a one-ton bull on a farm where he leased barn space in Wernersville, about 60 miles northwest of Philadelphia, Berks County Deputy Coroner [...]