“The animal care and veterinary teams take extraordinary ... Earlier in the day, Zoo New England, which manages Franklin Park Zoo and Stone Zoo in Stoneham, had said Kitombe, affectionately ...

Sox was born at Boston's Franklin Park Zoo on Oct. 25, 2007 in the middle of the Red Sox's sweep of the Colorado Rockies in the World Series. That's how she got her name — that and her white ankles.

The death of the zoo's alpaca comes after two deer and two chickens died and a recent USDA inspection noted many missing birds. Necropsies are pending.

The McCormick Bird House would be closed "until further notice," the zoo said. Two animal deaths at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago have been traced to an outbreak of avian influenza, or bird flu ...