After the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan, and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.

Judy is excited to see all of the animals at the zoo on a school field trip.

Since he was knee-high to a grasshopper, little Stu's favorite place to visit was the nearby zoo. He was there so often that even the animals recognized him. The animals' sounds, from the coos and the snorts, and the squeaks and bellows, and the brays and the whistles, were music to his ears. His mother called it a symphony. Stu loved to pretend to be a conductor when he listened to the animals. But now there is trouble brewing at the zoo. A man wants...

Zookeeper Teddy Bentley gets drawn into a murder investigation when her llama Alejandro is accused of trampling a Renaissance Faire worker that turns out to be a con man posing as a minister whose dubious marriage ceremonies point to Teddy's mother as a suspect.

While Flora visits the zoo with her father, not only does she look at the animals but some of them turn to look at her.

A little girl has the sniffles and a runny nose but no tissue and nonetheless visits and pets all the animals at the zoo, giving them something that they would rather not have.