The bonobo, a boy, was named after Don Winstel, who worked at the zoo for more than 36 years before retiring as the assistant director.

Vanilla, a 28-year-old chimpanzee, was once caged in a lab facility in New York. After being freed, she sees the sky for the first time in Florida.

This baby otter orphan was found alone in a river in Cecil County, Maryland. Taken in by the Maryland Zoo, she's now being ...