After two recent deaths, National Zoo gets two new Asian elephants. Two young females, a gift from the Rotterdam Zoo, are expected to be bred with the zoo’s male, Spike ...

A 400-pound gorilla escaped from his enclosure and ran amok in a Rotterdam zoo, biting a woman, dragging her around and causing panic among dozens of visitors, officials said.

In The Netherlands' busy industrial port of Rotterdam, the zoo and botanical garden offer places of comfort for wild creatures and plants as well as the humans who admire them.