Auckland Zoo's new “Keeper for a Day” experience allows visitors to work alongside keepers and step into areas of the zoo that are usually out of bounds.

The keepers at Auckland Zoo think they have the best job in the world, so we are trading our office shoes for work boots today to give it a go.

Rhonda Preston-Jones could be forgiven for thinking she was in Australia yesterday morning when she looked out the window and saw three pelicans only metres from her home in Waterview.

Members of the nzherald.co.nz team are trading their office shoes for work boots to give zookeeping a go.

New York's Bronx Zoo has welcomed a baby gibbon, the first born at the zoo for 12 years.

A second sea lion has died in just over a month at Napier's Marineland when 22-year-old Makea failed to recover from a general anaesthetic on Friday.

A dolphin and its calf which were stranded on a Hawkes Bay reef as they fled from hunting orca have been saved by holidaymakers.

White tail spiders come out in search of food during warm summer weather, and their numbers are up, according to some pest controllers.

Children watched as an out-of-work social worker threw his flatmate's cat under the tyres of passing cars to kill it.

It's hard to take a big dog on an international sports tour - but easier to take him on holiday.

Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey and the US National Environment Research Council used satellite imagery to discover a massive penguin colony on the Princess Ragnhild Coast in Antarctica.

Humans have made first contact with a massive emperor penguin colony in east Antarctica.

Those responsible for shooting five domesticated goats, one of which took five days to die, are being warned by police.

Seven penguin chicks are the newest residents at Kelly Tarlton's aquarium thanks to a world-class breeding programme.

It's irritatingly hot and the kids are crowding the nest in summer. It's time to give a few of them the boot.

Visitors to the Bay of Islands were treated to a show they won't forget when a whale frolicked and leapt from the sea in front of their boat for at least 15 minutes.

Poachers and stock rustlers are being warned by Federated Farmers to find a different line of work.

A record haul of man-eating saltwater crocodiles was removed from waterways in the Top End of Australia last year, confirming that numbers of the feared reptiles are ballooning.