If you’re raising children alongside animals, you’ll want species that are gentle, patient, and relatively safe to handle.

Q. I notice you sometimes include scientific names of animals in your columns. One time you identified a timber rattlesnake; another time, two turtles (an Alabama redbelly turtle and a stinkpot).

Librarians read Librarians read “Five Little Chicks" by Lily Murray and “My Farm Friends” by Wendell Minor during the event, which drew 323 children age 4 and younger and 379 adults. Preschool kids ...

The Denver Zoo gave kids a chance to learn all about animal care in a special way on Saturday. The zoo held its sixth Teddy Bear Clinic sponsored by Children's Hospital Colorado. Kids brought their ...

Trish Khan, the Milwaukee County Zoo's curator of primates and small mammals, has worked at the zoo for more than 30 years, and in that time, methods for naming animals have changed. "It used to be a ...