For almost a century, the animals of the Detroit Zoo have been wowing crowds of people at its location along Ten Mile Road in Royal Oak. Designed by Heinrich Hagenbeck, the zoo was built with the goal ...

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The Detroit Zoo is giving its water tower a makeover, re-painting it adding a new, temporary design that should be up by late July or early August and help and is supposed to be "a surprise." The ...

ROYAL OAK - The Detroit Zoo has just received some national recognition for its annual Christmas display. “ Wild Lights” at ...

Dad Jabari, a 17-year-old giraffe who has called Detroit Zoo home since 2008, is part of a close-knit giraffe family that ...

(CBS DETROIT) - The annual Zoo Boo at the Detroit Zoo is returning this fall for three weekends. More than 120 acres of the zoo will be open for guests to explore and participate in trick-or-treating, ...

ROYAL OAK, Mich. – The Detroit Zoo said goodbye to a beloved lion and welcomed another on Monday. Binti, the first lion cub born at the Detroit Zoo in 40 years, will be moving to another zoo. Detroit ...

ROYAL OAK, Mich. (WXYZ) — The Detroit Zoo has announced in social media posts that the lion Simba will be leaving their facility. The post says Simba will be ...

The Detroit Zoological Society's (DZS) annual Sunset at the Zoo evening gala event returns Friday. This year, “Leap into Conservation” is the message for the annual fundraising event. Sunset at the ...

The Detroit Zoo re-debuted its zoo keys on Friday. People can buy a specialty key to plug into one of its audio boxes and listen to a biography of an animal. Currently, the zoo has 11 audio stations, ...

We are heartbroken to update you that the 5-month-old wallaby joey whose story we shared on Friday is missing. The joey was last seen by animal care staff around 5 p.m. Saturday and was discovered ...

DETROIT – There’s a tiny new face at the Detroit Zoo – an infant Japanese macaque. The monkey was born in the early hours of Sunday, May 8, to parents Lynda and Haru, the zoo announced on Facebook.