With a stay-at-home order in effect, the animals seem to have taken back the streets in at least one Grand Rapids neighborhood.

Israel's safari zoo welcomed a newborn baboon and a baby elephant during its closure to visitors in the wake of COVID-19.

Kittens from the Atlanta Humane Society went on a field trip to the Georgia Aquarium while the aquarium is closed to the general public.

A porcupine at Oregon Zoo is getting to meet several of its neighbors during its daily walks during the coronavirus pandemic.

Ru Yi stretched to climb into a barrel strung on a rope at the Moscow Zoo, which is currently closed.

A South Carolina resident filmed an alligator casually taking a trip to a vacant mall as it is closed during the coronavirus pandemic.

A family of orangutans playfully chased small-clawed otters at a zoo in Belgium.

They are practically waving at each other through the glass.

5-month-old cheetahs Chase and Dash got to explore Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay while the park is closed.

The zoo released footage of the calf as part of its “closed but still caring” campaign amid the coronavirus pandemic.

This orangutan grabbed a sponge and helped keep Perth Zoo sanitized as the COVID-19 pandemic spread in Australia. The country has over 2,300 confirmed coronavirus cases.

The zookeepers at the Chattanooga Zoo have been letting the animals have a little more fun in the empty facility while it’s closed to public.

Disney’s Animal Kingdom is celebrating its newest member.

A young cougar was spotted roaming the streets of Santiago amid a widespread shutdown to contain the coronavirus.

As the coronavirus infects more people around the world, conservationists are warning of the risk to another vulnerable species: Africa's mountain gorilla

This toilet paper roll cat remix is giving us hope.

An orangutan in Indonesia is seen demonstrating how to wash its hands while in the jungle with other orangutans and staff members.

Penguins at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium walked around visitor areas to check out other exhibits after the facility closed its doors for two weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Waddle these penguins do during the shutdown? Explore all over their aquarium home, of course!

Climate change is affecting how these harp seal pups live.

Mexican officials say the number of monarch butterflies at their winter resting grounds decreased about 53% this year

Meet the 12-week-old golden retriever who has one ear on the top of her head.

Meet the 12-week-old golden retriever who has one ear on the top of her head.

National Geographic and “GMA” take a close look at the stunning ice floe where harp seals have their pups 100 miles north of Prince Edward Island.

Underwater footage recorded by Blake Hill, a whale watcher, shows dolphins and sea lions swooping through schools of fish near Oceanside, California.

Denver Zoo's Amur tiger, Nikita, enjoyed the new smell in the hay after a scent enrichment.

The one-horned rhino calf ran circles around its mother.

A huge social media campaign was launched to find Merrick's new owner and it got the attention of Jordan Nussbaum, who says he and Merrick hit it off immediately.

Drone footage captured in the Maldives shows a snorkeler drifting into a group of harmless nurse sharks.

James Abernethy, who hosts shark expeditions, calmly rubbed the shark’s snout as other sharks swam by.

The goat, MaDolly, celebrated her first birthday by wearing a festive party hat.

Authorities in Ohio have seized an alligator that was being kept in the basement of a home

Plus, “Modern Family’s” Ty Burrell talks about which personality trait he and his character on the show have in common.

The hippo who was born six-weeks premature recently celebrated her third birthday at the Cincinnati Zoo alongside her mom Bibi.

Yellowstone National Park has started capturing bison migrating outside the park and will hold them for possible slaughter as part of a population reduction program

Two sea lions rescued off the coast of California are making their debut at a new home in a Hawaii aquatic park

The San Diego Zoo is teaming up with “Good Morning America” to help name the newest addition to their zoo family —a baby hippopotamus.

A polar bear cub at the Copenhagen Zoo has taken its first tentative steps outside its feeding cave.

The Prague Zoo celebrated the arrival of a mantled guereza, a West African monkey, cuddling with its elders, who raise their newborns as a group.

Jillian Smith of Norwalk, Ohio, shared the image last month of her son Peyton and their English Mastiff, Dash, onto Facebook where it's been shared 43,000 times.

A family looked on in awe as a wolf pack wandered by their cabin in Quebec.

Darius Brown, 13, is helping shelter dogs and cats get adopted one homemade bow tie at a time.

Cindy Gibb O'Leary‎ discovered her cat Pumba loves massages even more than treats.

A female lion cub named Leila born two months ago in a zoo in eastern Ukraine has not yet made her debut to visitors.

An estimated 80 hippopotamuses, perhaps more, live around the Rio Magdalena.

Two cheetah cubs have been born via in vitro fertilization to a surrogate mother for the first time ever at the Columbus Zoo.

The race is on to find a rare duck who was spotted in Central Park this weekend with a piece of plastic stuck in its beak.

One kayaker called the experience terrifying yet epic; the group's dog, Harley, was not as amused.

The 600-pound pinniped was returned to the Columbia River after traversing a “significant distance from water,” according to local officials.

Cowlitz County Deputies responded to a sea lion in the roadway, far from its normal waters outside Castle Rock, Washington.