Zoos

The 5-metre-long crocodiles, Krakatoa and Boss Hog, are being billed as the largest in captivity in Queensland after the death of colossal 5.48m Cassius this month.

Asian elephant Burma had a warm Adelaide welcome on Tuesday afternoon, complete with a police escort, from Adelaide Airport to Monarto Safari Park. 

Pesto — Melbourne Aquarium's giant-sized penguin — has entered his awkward "teenage phase" and is shedding his fluffy brown feathers.

Elephants in the Berlin Zoo were captured on video using a sophisticated tool — a hose — to take a shower and prank each other.

A scientist hopes to learn more about the exact age of the iconic record-breaking saltwater crocodile Cassius, believed to be up to 120 years old, after the croc died at the weekend.

Eleven monkeys have died over the past week, with a further two dying over the weekend. Authorities say the bacterial infection melioidosis killed at least nine of the monkeys at Hong Kong's oldest zoo. 

The zoo says 19-year-old Mujambi was euthansed after suffering a medical episode, and the decision was made to also euthanse his  partner, 23-year-old Amani, for her own welfare.

An official at the Centre of Disease Control said the tigers likely consumed meat from infected poultry.

Zookeepers have discovered a joey, born to red-necked wallabies at Symbio Wildlife Park, is an albino. Only one in 100,000 wallabies exhibit the rare genetic condition.

After the viral fame of Thailand's new pygmy hippo, Taronga Zoo is hoping visitors will be enticed to see nine-month-old Lololi these school holidays.

Peter Smith tossed a silky bantam chicken, part of a threatened species breeding program, into an alligator enclosure at a wildlife park in February where it was killed.

At just nine months of age, Pesto is already far bigger than the adult king penguins at Melbourne's aquarium.

The new male chimpanzees at Rockhampton Zoo have agitated a crucial breeding female. Leakey and her bub will now be sent to Sydney Zoo to reduce tensions.

A Thai zoo has been forced to limit crowds visiting viral online sensation Moo Deng after videos show mistreatment of the pygmy hippo.

Two new pandas will replace Wang Wang and Fu Ni when the beloved pair return to China later this year.

Victoria's Werribee Open Range Zoo has welcomed the birth of a male southern white rhino, more than a year after the passing of a female calf.

A snake pit which developed into a koala farm in the North Adelaide parklands frustrated its genteel neighbours, but was loved by the public and the rich and famous.

The twins are the first locally born pandas in Hong Kong, with the pregnancy only being confirmed on Sunday.

Emi Arnold and Pat Monarca were about to finish work when they spotted a long-lost tiny dragon. Now Zoos Victoria is leading the charge to bring the reptiles back from the brink.

With about 80,000 koalas left in the wild, breeding programs like the one at the National Zoo and Aquarium in Canberra are designed to support the endangered and iconic Australian marsupials.