The animals at Nagasaki Bio Park, in the city of Saikai ... out the inside skillfully and relishing them. Note: Racoon in Japanese is araiguma, a combination of arai from the verb arau and ...

A giant gorilla with brooding good looks and rippling muscles is causing a stir at a Japanese zoo, with women flocking to check out the hunky pin-up. Shabani, an 18-year-old silverback who tips ...

Mao is an African elephant at the Morioka Zoological Park ZOOMO in northern Japan, popular with visitors and known as the face of the zoo. But at 22, she is also on the verge of becoming too old ...

Like elsewhere in the world, pandas are hugely popular in Japan. Before deciding their names, Tokyo officials even set up a name selection committee. Officials from the zoo and the Tokyo ...

FUKUOKA--Three Myanmar nationals who live in Japan asked the Fukuoka Zoo on June 25 to delay accepting elephants from their home country, saying that the ruling junta is using the animals for ...