Here are a few ideas to steer your pack in the right direction. Stories of animals behaving "kindly" can show kids they can also get along with anyone. Elephants that comfort friends, benevolent ...

A rescue plan was launched, in which 14 animals were taken to establish a captive population at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium ... in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, but that attempt ...

It is generally longer than the animal’s body and acts as a fifth limb—an adaptation to life in the tree canopy. It can support a spider monkey’s full body weight and allows them to hang ...

at the Houston Zoo. What is family to a seabird who soars alone over the open ocean, or to a primate who clings to its mother for years? Do animals have siblings, aunties, or cousins? Can they ...

The practical outcomes are regularly the same, too: Fingers are pointed, parents are vilified, and the animals are hunted ... we don’t take our kids to the zoo so they can come into harm's ...