Wellington Zoo recently hosted Amanda Johnson, an MBA student at Stanford University in California, through the Global Management Immersion Experience (GMIX) – an internship programme that encourages ...

On 2 April, Wellington Zoo went live with a global network project to share vital information on wild animals in human care. The latest version of the Zoological Information Management System (ZIMS) ...

The wayward emperor penguin dubbed Happy Feet craned his head, flapped his flippers and seemed a little perturbed as he started his journey home to cooler southern waters Monday. The penguin was moved ...

If you want to experience a close encounter with a lemur, you can now skip a trip to Madagascar and go straight to Wellington Zoo. From next week the zoo is offering a chance to personally meet its ...

Twins seem to run in the family at a New Zealand zoo, where four sets of ring-tailed lemur twins were born recently. The zoo welcomed eight babies in total: four at the end of August, two in September ...

Wellington Zoo is down to one capybara after the death of one of its huge — and hugely popular — rodents. In an email to customers, the zoo said its capybara, Luna, had been unwell for some time and ...

The squirrel monkey is happy to catch a ride on its friend the capybara. Four of the large rodents have arrived in Wellington. SAMANTHA ROBERTSON / Stuff Rodents that weigh as much as an adult human ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, May 20 (UPI) -- The Wellington, New Zealand, zoo was mourning the death Wednesday of 19-year-old Molly, its last remaining zebra, officials said. The zebra had long been ...

Wellington Zoo gives press conference referring to the attempted Squirrel Monkey theft. Would-be thieves armed with bolt cutters would have suffered bite marks after a troupe of squirrel monkeys at ...

An emperor penguin that took a wrong turn and ended up 2,000 miles from home in New Zealand is facing a grim future. After experts saw that Happy Feet — as the penguin has been nicknamed — wasn't ...

The penguin was taken to a nearby zoo, where it was found to be underweight but otherwise healthy Wellington Airport A pilot at the Wellington Airport in New Zealand spotted a baby penguin on the ...