The zoo's free admission was a stipulation that Col. William and Anna Vilas made when they gave the land to the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association in 1904 "for the uses and purposes of a ...

Henry Vilas Zoo is planning to launch a new study that will measure the amount of empathy people feel for the animals at the zoo.

An Arctic fox spotted roaming an Oregon city was taken to a Wisconsin zoo where she fell ill with “salmon poisoning,” the zoo said. Since then, Luna has gone through “intense treatment” to ...

For the quintessential Madison experience ... including holiday light displays at the Henry Vilas Zoo, the Wisconsin state Capitol and Olbrich Botanical Gardens, make this an especially fun ...