The African giant pouched rat (also known as the Gambian pouched rat) is a docile, intelligent rodent that weighs about nine pounds when fully grown. A non-profit organization in Belgium trains them ...

Eunice Framm, senior keeper of barnyard animals at the Cincinnati Zoo, has taught pigs to bowl, goats to paint, and red pandas to receive vaccines. She, and all other keepers, do so through the zoo’s ...