Baby fever hit New Jersey’s Turtle Back Zoo in late November when Makena, the zoo’s three-year-old lioness, gave birth two ...

The Turtle Back Zoo in Essex County, New Jersey, recently welcomed their first-ever lion cubs, a boy and a girl, and asked ...

Forget the giraffes, gibbons and leopards. About a dozen visitors at the Turtle Back Zoo in New Jersey gathered one recent morning around the most unusual sight of all. It was a small, light-brown ...

Visitors to the Turtle Back Zoo watch through a large picture window as a white-cheeked gibbon undergoes a wellness checkup in West Orange, N.J., Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) WEST ...

A cheetah strolls the grounds at Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 Get Photo Use of and/or registration ...

WEST ORANGE, New Jersey (WABC) -- Need a break from coronavirus news? Well the Essex County Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange, New Jersey has a fuzzy and adorable new addition. Essex County Executive ...

Turtle Back Zoo will hold its Family Fun Nights on Wednesdays and Thursdays throughout July and August, extending evening hours for visitors. The zoo will be open from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., with the last ...

WEST ORANGE, New Jersey (WABC) -- An 18-foot-tall Masai giraffe at New Jersey's Turtle Back Zoo has died from complications during a medical procedure. Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo, Jr., ...