A sulcata tortoise undergoes a veterinary checkup at Turtle Back Zoo, where zoo visitors can observe animal care procedures.

Dr. Murray operates on one of the Zoo’s gorillas. Jessie Cohen/Smithsonian’s National Zoo Suzan Murray, chief veterinarian at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., oversees the health ...

Sarah Cannizzo is an associate veterinarian at Fort Worth Zoo, certified to conduct acupuncture on the zoo's more than 7,000 creatures. Cannizzo has administered acupuncture to rabbits with ...

San Diego Zoo staff and animal lovers are reeling this week following the death of beloved Gramma the Galápagos tortoise, by ...

Zoo officials said she came from the Bronx Zoo in either 1928 or 1931 as part of their first group of Galápagos tortoises.

Gramma, who died at the zoo on Thursday, was believed to have been born in 1884, when Chester A. Arthur was in the White ...