Centuries before the rise of the Inca Empire, a much smaller kingdom on the central coast of Peru already had a sophisticated trade network—one it used to import live parrots across the Andes from the ...

Inca lived well beyond the expectancy for ocelots in human care and reared 10 children during her time with the zoo.

The North Carolina Zoo announced the death of Inca, its last ocelot.

A beloved ocelot at the North Carolina Zoo has died less than a year after losing her partner, the zoo announced Tuesday. Inca was 21, well beyond the typical life ...

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The Inca Empire practiced a form of Communism, prioritizing collective survival and state-mandated labor without money or ...

A new study shows that parrots and Amazon macaws were traded across the Andes for elite feather ornaments long before the ...

Centuries before the Inca emerged, Amazonian parrots were carried alive across the Andes and raised in captivity on Peru's coast for their vibrant feathers.

The North Carolina Zoo is mourning the loss of two of its longtime animal residents after announcing the death of its remaining ocelot just days after another animal death at the park. In a social ...

The team suspected that “these birds were wild-caught in the rainforest, transported alive across the Andes, and kept in ...

They were dead, but for the sake of the capacocha rituals, their bodies had to undergo a series of more unfortunate events.