After two recent deaths, National Zoo gets two new Asian elephants. Two young females, a gift from the Rotterdam Zoo, are expected to be bred with the zoo’s male, Spike ...

April 21 (UPI) --A griffon vulture that escaped from a Netherlands zoo was spotted a week later about 50 miles away from the facility.The Diergaarde Blijdorp Rotterdam Zoo said the vulture escaped ...

The Blijdorp zoo in Rotterdam has been serving vegan kroketten to visitors without spelling out that they are the animal friendly version. Most restaurants designate vegetarian or vegan food by ...

It’s all “ midterms this“ and “midterms that” at the moment, but here’s good news to get your mind off the political: The National Zoo welcomed two new Asian elephants last night. Described as an ...

Trong Nhi and Nhi Linh are a gift from the Rotterdam Zoo in South Holland, Netherlands. They join male Spike (41) and females Kamala (47), Swarna (47), Bozie (47) and Maharani (32) at the Elephant ...

Asian elephants Trong Nhi (left) and Nhi Linh (right) in their habitat at the Rotterdam Zoo Oct. 13. After a more than 4,000-mile-long journey, they arrived at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and ...

Around the same time as Boeier, the Rotterdam Zoo took in seven cold-stunned loggerhead sea turtles and one other Kemp’s ridley named Blof who had been found on Dutch beaches.

The elephants arrived shortly before 9 p.m. after a day-long journey that began when they left the Rotterdam Zoo by truck, bound for an airport 130 miles away in Liege, Belgium, the zoo said.