Snakes aren’t the only animals that hiss; certain tortoises do, too. If something startles or provokes a sulcata tortoise, it ...

Tucked away in the back of the Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo, 10 rescued gopher tortoises spend their days grazing and ...

LUCKNOW: The 'batagur kachhua' (red-crowned roofed turtle), a freshwater species once considered one of Asia’s most ...

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The chimpanzee approaches the camera and appears to recognize that it is different from her environment, video footage shows. She picks up a long stick, uses it to probe the camera and then appears to ...

The female endangered chimpanzee used ... to other groups due to their behavior of cracking open tortoises to eat the meat inside the shell, as well as putting insects on their wounds and the ...

The Aldabra Giant Tortoise is native to the Aldabra ... in a single meal and can go months between feedings. Female Komodo dragons can reproduce parthenogenetically—producing viable eggs without male ...

It took nearly 100 years for a duo of endangered Philadelphia Zoo tortoises to become parents and the "Golden" moment is now ...

The Philadelphia Zoo's four new female tortoise hatchlings have been named. Votes for the names topped 13,000. They are named ...