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Over across the pond in the UK, a zoo has actually hired a full-time Marvin Gaye impersonator to sing in the monkey exhibit as a way of encouraging the primates to have sex during mating season.

A popular Malayan tiger at a zoo in Naples, Florida was shot and killed after refusing to loosen its grip on a custodian worker who reportedly made his way into an unauthorized area and stuck his arm in the tiger's cage.

A woman at an Arizona zoo decided it would be a great idea to cross over the barrier to take a selfie with a jaguar. As anyone with common sense could imagine it did not go well for her. The jaguar attacked the woman, luckily she is expected to survive. And before you ask, yes […]

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — A man who jumped into a Florida zoo’s crocodile enclosure has been sentenced to a year in jail. Court records show 23-year-old Brandon Keith Hatfield of Green Cove Springs pleaded no contest Friday to multiple charges, including trespassing and criminal mischief. St. Augustine police said Hatfield broke into the St. […]

  This man got up close and personal with the hippos at a California Zoo. For some strange reason he felt the need to smack one of the animals on the rear end. Video posted to Instagram shows the bizarre incident. The man’s approach is very cautious, when hr finally gets close enough he slaps one […]

NAUBINWAY, Mich. (AP) — An owner of a zoo in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula says a 12-inch alligator has escaped, possibly with some help from a tortoise. TV stations WWTV-WWUP and WPBN-WTOM and MLive.com report the alligator named Carlos got out of an enclosure over the weekend at the GarLyn Zoo near Naubinway. He was spotted […]