A peacock that had escaped from the Central Park Zoo returned home on its own Wednesday morning, the Wildlife Conservation Society told CNN.
A peacock has flown the coop, stealthily escaping from its home at the Central Park Zoo.
A peacock believed to have escaped from the Central Park Zoo perches on a window sill on New York's Fifth Avenue.
A "surprisingly healthy" population of rare snow leopards has been discovered in the remote northeastern stretches of Afghanistan, one of the few areas largely unaffected by the near decade-long war in the country.
How much would it cost to save tigers from extinction in the wild? Thirty-five million more dollars a year.
A new picture index is helping scientists monitor long-term trends in rare animal species around the world using strategically placed remote cameras.
An infant was killed at New York's Central Park Zoo when she was struck by a falling tree.
A 6-month-old girl was killed and her mother seriously injured Saturday when the pair were struck by a falling tree branch in New York City's Central Park Zoo.
Inside Africa searches West Africa's last rainforest for its last remaining gorillas.
We shouldered our packs -- leaving behind us a small town of wooden shacks, and making our way up a steep climb into the Mbe mountains and Nigeria's last rainforest.
One wily coyote traveled a bit too far from home, and its resulting adventure through Harlem had alarmed residents doing a double take and scampering to get out of its way Wednesday morning.
Flying high above the dry, sweeping plains of southern Sudan, Paul Elkan is a man on a mission.
The largest savannah in Africa is disappearing along with its wildlife. CNN's David McKenzie reports
Efforts to make Band-e-Amir a national park began in the 1970s but were put on hold through the decades of war that ravaged the country. The U.S. and Afghan governments, along with the Wildlife Conservation Society, began working with local communities in 2006 to revive that vision.
The Irrawaddy, one of the world's rarest species of freshwater dolphins, have been found in surprisingly large numbers deep in the waterlogged jungles of Bangladesh.
Researchers find that the population of a rare gorilla is larger than thought, CNN's Rusty Dornin reports.
An estimated 125,000 Western lowland gorillas are living in a swamp in equatorial Africa, researchers reported Tuesday, double the number of the endangered primates thought to survive worldwide.
Conservationists find 125,000 undiscovered western lowland gorillas in Africa, suggesting the species is safe
Wildlife researchers said Tuesday that they've discovered
125,000 western lowland gorillas deep in the forests of the Republic of
Congo, calling it a major increase in the animal's estimated
population
Planet in Peril, a CNN worldwide investigation, takes viewers around the globe in a two-part, four-hour documentary that examines our changing planet. Planet in Peril looks at four key issues: climate change, vanishing habitats, disappearing species and human population growth.
CNNMoney: Monkey businessupdated: Tue Feb 22 2005 13:46:00
How much would you pay to name a new species? It's a mammal. Now how much would you pay? Not only is it a mammal, it's a monkey, a cute, furry little primate from the Bolivian rainforest.
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