January 2012

Meet Reid Park Zoo’s newest resident: a 1-year-old male marabou stork who arrived from the Dallas Zoo last week! After 30 days in our Animal Health Center, and some standard health tests, he’ll join another male stork (age 43) in an African multi-species exhibit that also includes white rhino and Speke’s gazelle. Be sure to… read more

Major construction on Expedition Tanzania is almost finished!  The exhibit looks amazing, and will be a wonderful home for the Zoo’s new elephants.  Watch this space for an official announcement of our grand opening, which we hope to host at the end of March.

KGUN 9 reporter Jessica Chapin recently took a trip to California to drop-in on Connie and Shaba’s soon-to-be new home at the Elephant Odyssey exhibit at the San Diego Zoo. Read the story here!

Check out this great video of female polar bear “Kobe” in her new exhibit at the Pittsburgh Zoo! We think she likes her new home…. Kobe’s debut in Pittsburgh