A goat who's "like a cross between Bob Marley and Tom Jones" is looking for a new home.

After fulfilling her childhood dream of becoming a zookeeper at Auckland Zoo, team leader of Primates Amy talks about how a life-changing trip to the Sumatran jungle ignited her passion for helping orangutans in the wild.

An ex NZ Herald Focus cameraman is at the centre of a daring and dangerous animal rescue in the war stricken city of Mosul.

The chick from Moehau successfully arrived with a little bit of last-minute help.

Most sat and stared blankly at the obstacles or hid in the cat tunnel.

Don't say the animal has gone 'to sleep' - know how to share the news of a pet dying.

Toilet-training cats is surprisingly possible and the benefits are great.

53kg rottweiler Bear farewells an abandoned kitten.

It’s a well-known fact that cats LOVE to sleep – and our big cats are no different. In today’s Zoo Tales, find out how our Carnivore keepers find ways to keep our pride of female lions mentally and physically active!

New research in New Zealand has shown what dogs and their ancestors have known for thousands of years.

A chimpanzee has been filmed using tools to apparently clean the corpse of another chimp.

A new charitable trust aims to encourage empty nesters to adopt a dog with a creative media campaign

Campaign brings together pet charities in a bid to have empty nesters "replace" their children with rescue dogs.

At a last minute wedding planned after the bride was diagnosed with terminal cancer, this pooch was given a special role.

A kind aquarium worker has lent a sinking goldfish a fin.

Slow-growing, spiny-backed and truly unique - take a tour with Ectotherm keeper Julie and meet Toa, Tipua, Taki and Flame, just a few of the incredible tuatara that live at Auckland Zoo.

Source: Crufts

Floodwaters washed a goat into a tree in Dargaville.

In the midst of all the flooding, firefighters stepped in to rescue cat.

As the surfer readies himself for a wave dolphin commits the ultimate surfing sin.

For years, Auckland Zoo has been working with DOC to help the critically endangered endemic Archey’s frog, the world's most evolutionarily distinct and globally endangered amphibian. Auckland Zoo holds the only captive population of Archey’s frog in the world, has had great success in breeding, rearing and releasing the species. In this week’s Zoo Tales join Ectotherms and Birds curator Richard Gibson who takes us through the journey from collection to release of some Archey’s frogs into Pukeokahu Forest.

Pridelands Keeper Jessie Hill gives an update on Auckland Zoo's giraffe calf Kabili.

A wild horse had to be killed after it was severely injured in an attack.

Berlin's Tierpark says a polar bear born at the zoo last November has died.

Source: NOAA

A Thailand sea turtle underwent hours of surgery after she was found to have been attempting to digest nearly a thousand coins flipped into her pool by tourists hoping for good luck.

Six per cent of New Zealand's yellow-eyed penguin's have been treated.

Veterinarians in Bangkok operated on the 25-year-old female green sea turtle nicknamed 'Bank'.

Truck driver who helped the abandoned animal was criticised for smoking.

Life is good for ducklings saved from certain doom on a railway track.