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A Minute With the Meerkats
Today we invite you to enjoy a full minute of meerkats just doing meerkat things. The pups’ digging skills are improving!
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Oja’s Pool Preferences
Every animal has a different personality and preferences. For example, Oja the Andean bear likes to dip her legs into the pool to cool off, but doesn’t often fully swim like our other bear. Here are some photos of Oja…
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Relax for a Minute in our South American Aviary
Today we invite you to relax for a minute with the sights and sounds of our South American aviary. Turn your volume on to hear LOTS of birds chatting! Can you identify any of the calls? Hint: many are from…
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Pollinator Week
What do bees and lemurs have in common? They are both pollinators! This week is pollinator week, and we’re celebrating by highlighting the largest pollinating species on the planet, the black-and-white ruffed lemur! These lemurs eat plant materials like fruits,…
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Photos of Penzi to Brighten Your Day
Here’s a little more Penzi cuteness to brighten your day. Enjoy these recent photos of baby Penzi just doing elephant things!
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Grizzly Bear Puzzle Enrichment
Today let’s watch Ronan the grizzly bear manipulate a puzzle-feeder enrichment item! Our grizzly bears get a variety of enrichment types every day to encourage natural bear behaviors. If you check out our Zoo Cams during the day you…
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Meerkats Pups: Three Boys, Two Girls, and Many Adventures
Hello from the meerkat pups! At just under two months old, Reid Park Zoo’s meerkat pups had their first check-up. The newest additions to the mob received a clean bill of health, and for the first time their care team…
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We’re Building the Future of Your Zoo
The Zoo may be closed to the public for the time being, but we’re hard at work transforming the way we’re able to welcome you to the Zoo. The Welcome Plaza of the Zoo (which includes the entryway, the courtyard…
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Penzi Learns to Rub and Scratch
Elephant calf Penzi is learning another important elephant skill: how to rub on surfaces to get a good scratch! Sometimes she uses structures in the habitat to rub on, and sometimes she just uses mom’s leg!
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Grizzly Bear Beats the Heat
With the current weather how many of you wish you could be like Ronan the grizzly bear chilling in your own private pool? Grizzlies spend much more time in water in the summer than they do other times of the…
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