Local art collective Often Seen Rarely Spoken created the mural, which features a series of animals at the zoo's entrance.

Patty, 11, comes to Louisville from the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, where she was born. 

The duo will live at the foot of Glacier Run with fellow Australian species in an habitat near Lorikeet Landing where the snowy owls and red panda used to be housed.

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg, zoo officials and the LG&E and KU Foundation celebrated the annual Party for the Planet. Kids in Action were honored. 

Teak was a Sumatran-Bornean hybrid orangutan that lived with a heart condition, according to the zoo. 

The relocation of the elephants will allow them to have a lifelong companionship in a safe and expansive area.

The Louisville Zoo has a new polar bear, a new breeding mate for Qannik.

A necropsy will be performed and any additional information from the results will be released later.

According to a news release, the piglet was born on April 29 to mother, Patrice, and father, Albus.