Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.

A lion and zebra and two other of their pampered friends, from New York's Central Park Zoo, accidentally find themselves shipwrecked on the island of Madagascar. When an escape attempt from the Central Park Zoo fails, a lion, hippo, giraffe and zebra find that they are being shipped back to Africa. Scheming penguins highjack the ship with the intent of taking it to Antartica and cause the crates of the four zoo animals to go overboard. Eventually,...

Follows the adventures of penguins living in New York's Central Park Zoo.

Two friends in Oman work together at the zoo, but after Tariq's sister has an arranged marriage which results in her being abused, he plans to steal animals and sell them on the black market in order to give her money to escape. When the white, wealthy, Cai figures out what's happening, it strains the friendship as the two young men are forced to face the differences in their lives and situations.

The friendship between a Central Park Zoo lion and zebra is tested when Marty the zebra's longing to explore ultimately leaves them stranded on the savage shores of Madagascar; follows the Central Park Zoo animals as they leave Madagascar to become stranded in the middle of Africa; the Central Park Zoo animals find their attempt to get home threatened by Animal Control, so they disguise themselves as members of a traveling circus.