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A Calm Moment With the Lemurs
Here’s another calming video with our fastidiously groomed ring-tailed lemurs. Don’t forget about our live lemur Zoo Cam where you can watch these lemurs throughout the day! Our Zoo Cams can be great educational tools — see if you can catch this kind of…
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What is a Caruncle?
What is that orange dangly thing on top of our vulture’s beak? Many bird species have fleshy growths hanging from their head or neck called caruncles. King vultures have a unique caruncle attached to the cere, or base of their beak.…
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Meerkat Pupdate: Look How They’ve Grown!
Look how much the meerkat pups have grown! Meerkats need to grow quickly to keep up with their energetic mobs, and the pups are now nearing adult size and have plenty of that energy.
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World Lion Day 2020
Today is World Lion Day! This holiday is important for highlighting lions’ conservation challenges and the need to Protect the Pride. Wild lion populations have decreased by 90% in the past century from threats like habitat loss, poaching, human-wildlife conflicts,…
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Green Pigeons Hatch a New Chick
Check out the new chick! Our pair of Bruce’s Green Pigeons recently hatched their new egg in our Flight Connection Aviary. The chick happened to hatch on the same day that its sibling did one year ago!
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Bella and the Weeble-Wobble
Bella the jaguar recently spent some time enjoying weeble-wobbling enrichment in her habitat! Enriching an animal’s habitat comes in many forms, from scents to investigate to food puzzles to solve and objects to pounce.
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Cockatoo Enjoys Bamboo Leaves
Kanecky the sulfur-crested cockatoo enjoys visiting one of the aviaries and shredding vegetation like this bamboo!
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Why Do Ring-Tailed Lemurs Have Striped Tails?
Why do ringed-tail lemurs have their striking tail markings? When out foraging these lemurs will hold their tails high in the air where the bright pattern is easily seen. This helps keep the group together! They can also wave their…
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Penzi and Nandi Like Mud Puddles!
Monsoons mean mud, and mud means fun! Enjoy this video of baby Penzi and her sister Nandi enjoying fresh mud after a rainy storm.
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Meet the Silver-Beaked Tanager
Two of the newer members of our South American aviary are a pair of silver-beaked tanagers. These birds are native to the Amazon and lay bright green-blue eggs with black-brown speckles. When the aviary’s egg statue was updated last year,…
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