BRIDGEPORT -- Cats may have nine lives, but until now, wild cats couldn't give birth to more than one life through artificial insemination. Then along came Kuma, a 6-year-old Brazilian ocelot who ...

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.

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 ...

A Connecticut zoo is mourning the death of one of its beloved wild cats. Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport says Kuma, a 14-year-old Brazilian Ocelot , died Thursday.

BRIDGEPORT — Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo announced that its 14-year-old Brazilian ocelot, Kuma, has died. In a Facebook Post Thursday, the zoo said she died from natural causes. Kuma, who ...

Years ago, zoo keepers would clean the building thoroughly with bleach to get rid of the smell, sending the animals into a state of near-constant stress as they would have to mark their territory ...