There’s a new route in place for anyone trying to get to the zoo in Baton Rouge. The Recreation and Park Commission for the ...

Step aside Phil. Baton Rouge Zoo's nine-year-old armadillo is making the weather predictions this Groundhog Day.

The 9-year-old Southern three-banded armadillo emerged into the Sunday morning sun to cast a shadow, heralding lingering ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Jaguars, like Tigers, are an important part of Baton Rouge, which makes the city zoo’s historic baby news all that more exciting for the community. BREC’s Baton Rouge ...

A hit with families, the Baton Rouge Zoo is home to a variety of animals both big and small. Everything from alligators and rhinoceroses to parrots and hissing cockroaches call this zoo home.

Authorities are investigating an deputy-involved shooting that happened in West Baton Rouge Parish early Sunday morning, February 2. A man was injured in a shooting during a party on Brightside ...

Emily has also been at the zoo for a long time, arriving a year earlier from the Baton Rouge Zoo. "There's a level of communication between the two that we're never going to hear, because they do ...

A zoo in Louisiana is very excited about its newest resident. BREC's Baton Rouge Zoo has welcomed a new baby reticulated giraffe to their herd. On Thursday, December 26, a male calf was born to 6 ...

On Tuesday morning, residents of New Orleans and Baton Rouge woke up to a winter wonderland with rare snow coating the ground ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo is hosting a naming contest following the birth of a jaguar cub and a new Mardi Gras-themed event. The “Name that Jag” contest is being ...