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Nature Play: Salt Dough
Andrea from the Zoo’s education team and her son Nathen are bringing the outside indoors for Nature Play during these hot summer months! Watch today’s video to a salt dough recipe and to learn how you can incorporate outside objects…
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Wind Chimes: Being Mindful with Urban Nature
At Reid Park Zoo we encourage families to find ways to explore and connect with nature together. Family craft ideas help us to go outside and think of creative ways that we can discover and enjoy nature without having to…
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Guest Artwork
We recently received a very sweet note from a guest named Bella, complete with this wonderful drawing of some of her favorite animals at the Zoo! Thanks, Bella, for sending us your artwork! We know many of you are, like…
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Activity Page: Snake Word Search
Download this activity page for some Zoo fun at home! You can find other activity pages here.
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World Otter Day
Today is World Otter Day! We are celebrating our Zoo’s two African spotted-necked otters (Hasani and Pfeifer) and their wild otter cousins! Otters rely on clean water to fish in, using their great underwater vision. Remember that our actions are…
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Activity Page: Lion Maze
Download this activity page for some Zoo fun at home! You can find other activity pages here.
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Reid Park Zoo Reopening Public Survey
We want your feedback! What would make you feel safe in revisiting the Zoo once we can reopen? Reid Park Zoo is grateful for your support during our temporary closure. All of us at the Zoo look forward to the…
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Mapenzi Trunk Development
Look at that little trunk go! Mapenzi is almost four weeks old and getting familiar with her trunk. An elephant’s trunk has about 40,000 muscles and is both a nose and upper lip. Elephant calves’ trunks may seem more floppy…
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Mapenzi Explores New Part of Elephant Habitat
Have you been keeping an eye on the elephants on our Zoo Cams? Earlier this week, Mapenzi explored a new part of her habitat for the first time! The “pool side” portion of the elephant habitat has some big challenges…
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Science and Observations in Your Own Back Yard
At Reid Park Zoo, we value conservation efforts to protect wild animals and wild places but in order to be able to help them, we need to understand them and the habitats they live in. We work closely with scientists…
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