The female cub has melanism, an extremely rare black color variant in big cats Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo is seeing spots, and they are excited. The zoo’s 6-year-old Amur leopard, Freya, gave ...

Aside from the ocelot, the Rainforest Building has two new 10-year-old scarlet ibises. The birds have bright pink-orange ...

The Beardsley Zoo used science and technology Tuesday to try to preserve a very rare species. It was a delicate artificial insemination procedure designed to keep a breed of Ocelot from dying out.