From harbouring flamingos in bathrooms to ensuring koalas' specialised foods, when hurricanes hit, zoos need contingency ...

Zoos rarely evacuate animals, Magill said. Some will be safe in their enclosures, while others may need to relocate.

Florida was not prepared for Hurricane Andrew when the storm ravaged the southern areas of the state in the summer of 1992.

ZooTampa at Lowry Park has taken into account Florida's history of hurricanes as keepers prepare for Milton to approach the ...

Precautions are being taken at zoos around South Florida to protect animals big and small as the powerful Hurricane Milton bears down on the state. The storm, which was a Category 4 hurricane as of ...

The last time the eye of a major storm like Hurricane Milton directly struck Tampa Bay was 1921 when the city was a sleepy ...

Miami-Dade County is just outside the forecast cone for Hurricane Milton, which formed Sunday afternoon and is forecast to rapidly intensify on a track toward Florida’s Gulf coast by the middle ...

MIAMI – Hurricane Milton continued on a path toward Florida as a dangerous Category 4 storm on Wednesday, with landfall forecast for early Wednesday or early Thursday morning somewhere between ...

Hurricane Milton, a Category 5 storm packing 165-mile-per-hour sustained winds, continued to track toward Florida's Gulf ...

MIAMI: Normally a quiet creek passes by Jim Kiltie's home about an hour outside of Asheville, North Carolina. After Hurricane Helene dumped 2 1/2 feet of rain last week, Kiltie said it looked like ...

Hurricane Milton is once again a Category 4 storm as of Wednesday morning, with 145-mile-per-hour sustained winds, as it ...