During the Cold War, governments around the world continued to view zoos through an ideological lens. This was especially true in Berlin, where the city’s two zoos – one in the capitalist West, the ...

There were 3,000 animals in Berlin’s Tiergarten at the outbreak of World War II; by the end, there were 91. In London, zoo staff killed ... pistols or veterinarians during the so-called ...

The Berlin zoo on Friday presented Fatou with a basket of fruit and vegetables ahead of her official birthday, which falls on Sunday. Fatou was born in 1957 and came to the zoo in what was then ...