Bobo, as it turns out, was the second giraffe to die on Long Island last year. His demise followed the February 2023 death of ...

Call it just an odd vibe, or an intimation of the unusual. It’s just before noon, and devotees are just trickling in at the Nirgun Paduka, but there’s something in the air of this 500-year ...

Many of the large exotic animals that end up in backyard menageries—lions and tigers, monkeys and bears—are bred in captivity. Today on the Internet you can find zebras and camels and cougars ...

Nowadays, the exotic pet market and trade - both legal and illegal - have exploded into a multi-billion dollar industry. The ...

McKiernan, traveled northwards via Okoquea (present day Okaukuejo) and wrote in a letter about the abundant wildlife: "All the menageries in the world turned loose would not compare to the sight I ...

Some places were associated with just one god and its symbolic animal, but old, venerated sites such as Abydos have yielded whole menageries of votive mummies, each species a link to a particular god.

Aristocratic menageries are – thankfully – an embarrassment belonging to the past. When troubled SeaWorld orca Tilikum ...

Archaeological research confirms that animal menageries were already assembled as early as several thousand years prior to the Christian era. The zoo as we know it now, in the form of a public ...

These are the barrios of San Diego. They were designed to keep a culture and a race of people segregated from the rest of America; glass menageries to keep novelties like Mexican culture in.” ...

From Texas to Maine, we checked in with alumni in the path of eclipse totality to hear their preparations and plans. Some know exactly where they'll be on Monday. Some still don't. For Anthony ...

The wake-up cantatas performed by menageries of birds every morning at the same early hour reset my biological clock to avian ...

Here is a selection of ten excellent exhibitions to visit in a month that has two bank holidays to spend in the museums.