The Birmingham Zoo is built atop land where some of the city’s earliest poor residents are buried. As the zoo plans to add a new cougar exhibit, officials are asking the state for permission to dig up ...

If you visited the Birmingham Zoo back when it had a gorilla, you probably remember Cenzoo. Cenzoo, the Birmingham Zoo’s last western lowland gorilla, left in 2015 to become part of a breeding program ...

The animals were born on May 31 at the Birmingham Zoo, officials wrote in a news release on Saturday. First-time parents Gizmo and Kodo, had been recommended to breed as part of the Association of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the country waits on this year’s spring prediction from beloved psychic groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, the Birmingham Zoo has ...

Winter isn’t going anywhere just yet, according to one of Alabama’s most famous marsupials. Birmingham Jill, the resident opossum prognosticator at the Birmingham Zoo, saw her shadow Sunday morning, ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC/Gray News) - An Alabama zoo welcomed a special new addition to its animal population this week. The Birmingham Zoo said a baby female giraffe was born on Wednesday at 12:19 a.m.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — About a dozen unmarked graves of people buried at an old cemetery that partly overlaps the grounds of the Birmingham Zoo would be dug up and relocated to clear the way for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A collaboration between the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry and the Birmingham Zoo has given new life to a ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — When the Birmingham Zoo made plans to add a new cougar and bobcat exhibit, it didn’t expect to find unmarked graves in the area it wanted to build. The zoo is working with ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The ball will drop in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, but an Alabama zoo will have its own celebration. A 5-foot plush monkey named Jingles will climb down a vine to welcome 2024 at ...