The Detroit Zoo and the Belle Isle Nature Center will reopen to the public Thursday after closing for two days due to extreme ...

A chimpanzee’s “sweet faces” graced the exhibits at a Michigan zoo for nearly a quarter century, and for decades more at two ...

The Detroit Zoo and Belle Isle Nature Center are both closed Wednesday. Wind chills will be around -10 later in the day.

Each of the zoo’s penguins has their own personality, Brown said, whether it’s the way they eat, or something more amusing, ...

A 55-year-old chimpanzee died after a health decline at a Michigan zoo ... Prior to joining John Ball Zoo, she was at the Cleveland Zoo for 17 years and the Detroit Zoo for 12 years.

If "April is the cruelest month," then January is the grimmest, when measured by temperature and human sentiment.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Peggy, a 55-year-old chimpanzee, died this week after John Ball Zoo staff saw a deterioration in her ...