DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — Two camels at Decatur’s Scovill Zoo are getting a new home. Representative Sue Scherer and her team helped secure a $200,000 grant to build a new enclosure. The new home will go ...

DECATUR, Ill. (AP) — Animals at a central Illinois zoo got to play with unusual toys designed by a group of elementary school students as part of a unique science project. The fifth graders from Cerro ...

DECATUR, Ill. (AP) — Animals at a central Illinois zoo got to play with unusual toys designed by a group of elementary school students. The fifth graders from Cerro Gordo made animal enrichment toys ...

DECATUR — Scovill Zoo has experienced several blessed events this year. “We have goat babies, we have lemur babies, we have a baby spider monkey, a baby penguin and a baby turaco,” said keeper ...

“We are happy to have earned another five years of AZA accreditation," said Scovill Zoo Director Ken Frye. "I am proud of all the zoo staff, park district staff and zoo volunteers that worked so hard ...

For the most part, they are pretty OK with them, said Ken Frye, director of the zoo. Which may come as a bit of a surprise to some, since the fireworks are launched from a barge in the middle of the ...

Heads up, Wise County.  No, higher. The world’s tallest land mammals are in the process of moving to town. Giraffe Inn & ...