The Zoo

Staff at the zoo in the Polish town of Plock first noticed the sound, not the sight, of two Siberian tiger cubs born in late April, keeper Malgorzata Trzcinska said, introducing the first of the breed born in the country this year.

Ljubljana – Ljubljana Zoo has welcomed a newcomer to its midst as a baby chimpanzee named Tai was born in mid-January. Crested geckos, black-tufted marmosets, a species of New World monkeys, kangaroos and meerkats have also seen the arrival of newborns, the zoo has said.

An alligator who survived a bombing raid on the Berlin zoo in 1943 and found himself east of the iron curtain after World War II has died of old age at 84, the Moscow Zoo said.

Saturn's demise marked the "end of an era", the zoo said in a statement on May 23, and 84 was "a respectable age" for a Mississippi alligator, a species that rarely makes it past 50 in the wild.

 Providing exactly what's needed in these trying times, Zoo Miami has shared images of two clouded leopard cubs.

The male and female have been secluded in a den with their mother, Serai, since their Feb. 11 birth so that they could properly bond while avoiding external stress, according to a news release from the South Florida zoo.

The Sofia Zoo announced on its Facebook page that it needed volunteers to keep animals from being fed by visitors. Help will be needed during the two days of the weekend, when the zoo is visited by most people.

Toucan, meerkat and Lemur are the new inhabitants of the Sofia Zoo.

The exotic animals are born in the year when the oldest zoo on the Balkan Peninsula celebrates its 130th birthday.

Various measures are being taken to prevent animals from being affected by the extreme heat in the southern province of Antalya. The residents of the Antalya Municipality Zoo cool off with iced meat and fruit offered by their caretakers. This photo shows the zoo's monkeys eating iced fruits in their enclosure.

The Tarsus Zoo is the only zoo in the eastern Mediterranean region. The zoo is home to eight lemurs, of which two are babies. The lemurs come from Spain and draw great interest from visitors.

A protest against the decision of the Razgrad municipal councilors to send the rescued lions Theresa and Maxwood to the zoo in Pazardjik is organized by the Four Paws and the Wildlife Foundation on Tuesday.

12-year-old pregnant lioness Raya will be transported by a team of "Four Paws" from Razgrad to Sofia because the zoo in town does not have the conditions for birth and raising the little one, NGN News Agency reported on Sunday. In November experts from the organization visited Razgrad and after an examination of the lioness found that she was in an advanced pregnancy.