The Detroit Zoo says the birth of a gorilla at the zoo in suburban Detroit is the first in its 96-year history.

I love Detroit. As someone who no longer has the pleasure of living in the area, people are sometimes surprised to hear that -- how much I love the region, that is; but it’s one of those “IYKYK” things. Anyone who has spent substantial time in the Detroit area knows, this area is such a gem.

A 5-month-old wallaby joey went missing from its enclosure at a Michigan zoo on Sunday, WDIV reported.

Environmentalists are faulting slow progress at a U.N.-backed meeting of nearly all the world’s countries toward beefing up protections for biodiversity on Earth.

The Detroit Zoo’s massive penguin center has reopened to the public more than two years after it was shuttered to repair faulty waterproofing.

Polar bear cubs are being cared by zookeepers at Detroit Zoo and by Suka, the mother cub. ROYAL OAK, Mich. – For the first time in two decades, a Michigan zoo is now home to two newborn polar bear cubs, WDIV reported. Two polar bear cubs were born November 17, 2020, to parents Suka and Nuka at the... Posted by Detroit Zoo on Friday, January 29, 2021The mother polar bear, Suka had given birth twice in the past, but none of her cubs had survived. The experience of a cub raised by humans and a cub raised by a mother polar bear is rare but rewarding, as zoo officials are able to learn more about the development of the cubs, WDIV reported. AdThe zoo has not said whether the female cub will reunite with her polar bear family at the Arctic Ring exhibit, which is currently not viewable to guests at this time.