Inside the private lives of the Toronto Zoo’s giant pandas
298 pages of zoo medical records reveal the stress of pandas living—and giving birth—in a human-controlled environment
True North Strong Free. Subscribe today.
Toronto Zoo
Panda-mania leaves PM’s new Trudeaumania in the dust
Trudeau, Wynne, and Tory gather at the Toronto Zoo for a very important panda-naming ceremony
What it feels like to feed the penguins at the Toronto Zoo
It’s lunchtime for these endangered African penguins that currently reside at a special exhibit at the Toronto Zoo. This is your VIP pass to go feed fish to the zoo’s black-footed penguins.
What it feels like to feed the giraffes at the Toronto Zoo
It’s just another day at the office for this Toronto zookeeper as he feeds these giraffes. See what it’s like to get so close to the world’s tallest land animal.
Goodbye Toronto Zoo elephants. We’re sorry.
The city could have done better, writes Barbara Amiel
On black-footed ferrets and why they’re not extinct after all
John Geddes reports on a state-of-the-ferrets report
Orangutans and gorillas go bananas for tablet computers
And offer zoo researchers insight into their brains
When Buddy met Pedro
Toronto’s gay penguins will see their bond broken for the good of their species
Gorillas on a diet
Toronto Zoo gorillas are eating more but losing weight. Could a high-fibre diet do the same for people?