TAMPA, Fla. (WJW) – Human residents are not the only ones trying to leave the Tampa area ahead of Hurricane Milton, the pets and zoo animals are heading for safety too. ZooTampa is closed beginning on ...

(Reuters) -After millions of people were ordered to flee along Florida's Gulf Coast, the African elephants, Caribbean flamingos, pygmy hippos and about 1,000 other animals were riding out the ...

Volunteers will hunker down in Tampa to safeguard one of Florida’s most vulnerable populations from Hurricane Milton: the animals. The so-called “ride-out team” of roughly a dozen staffers from ...

ZooTampa will have a ride-out team at the facility during the storm. As Florida's Tampa Bay residents prepare for the impact of Hurricane Milton, the city's zoo and aquarium are working on emergency ...

Hurricane Milton is projected to make landfall on Florida's west coast between late Wednesday and early Thursday Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Zoo Tampa is one of only a few critical care facilities in Florida able to treat sick and injured manatees. But zoo officials say that because of limited space, they can only take care ...

TAMPA, Fla. — The animals of Tampa Bay's zoos and aquariums are hunkering down ahead of Hurricane Helene's impact. The zoo at Busch Gardens, ZooTampa at Lowry Park and The Florida Aquarium downtown ...

A Florida zoo is closing down in preparation for Hurricane Milton. ZooTampa at Lowry Park announced on social media that it would close its doors to guests from Tuesday, Oct. 8, through at least ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TAMPA, Fla. (WJW) – Human residents are not ...