At 5 a.m., six keepers file into the Houston Zoo's commissary kitchen and spend the next five hours chopping produce, portioning meat and weighing hay. By the time the rest of the zoo staff arrives, ...

The "Where's Marty?" "Coolest places we've taken you in 2022" week continued today with a stop at the kitchen of the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. Now, I need to pause here and give a shoutout to the ...

Behind the scenes at the Oklahoma City Zoo, a team of nutritionists and caretakers prepares more than 250 specialized meals each day to feed the zoo's 1,300 animals, which include elephants to parrots ...

An assortment of smells fills the kitchen of the Dallas Zoo's Animal Nutrition Center each day. By midmorning, team members are slicing fresh produce on a long metal table at the center of the kitchen ...

Batang, an orangutan at the National Zoo enjoys the taste of a pumpkin supplied by the Zoo’s commissary. (Photo by Mehgan Murphy) “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined ...

Much like human children, the bears and monkeys at the Beardsley Zoo are finicky eaters. “Primates are famous for that,” says Don Goff, the Bridgeport zoo’s deputy director responsible for animal care ...