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Reid Park Zoo Helping to Save the Southern Tamandua
A Major Success for Conservation Reid Park Zoo announced the birth of a baby southern tamandua earlier this fall. Lety, the Zoo’s twelve-year-old female tamandua, welcomed her seventh offspring on August 31. During the initial health check, animal care staff…
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The Best Cyber Monday Deal in Tucson!
Save BIG on a Reid Park Zoo Membership! With unlimited daytime admission year-round, a Reid Park Zoo membership is already Southern Arizona’s best value, and with this unbelievable Cyber Monday deal, how can you resist becoming a Reid Park Zoo…
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Make Giving Tuesday a Giving Zooday!
Reid Park Zoo is proud to be a part of this global day of giving. Every year holiday shoppers have two days for getting deals, Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but #GivingTuesday (or #GivingZooday, as we like to call it)…
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The Meerkat Mob is Back!
The meerkat mob is back, with an expanded habitat! Two popular attractions at Reid Park Zoo have been under construction but guests will now have the opportunity to get eye-to-eye with two of the most popular animals at the Zoo,…
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Zoo Sales Tax Dollars Hard at Work Building Bigger Spaces and Creating Smiling Faces
Visible signs of renovation and expansion are apparent at Reid Park Zoo, thanks to funding approved by Tucson voters last year. Since February of this year, $7 million has been collected in sales tax dollars. About 60% is going toward…
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Working Together to Conserve Endangered Species
Wildlife Conservation is at the Heart of Our Mission. Reid Park Zoo is proud to be involved with conservation programs throughout the world. Our board of directors recently took formal action, joining efforts by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA),…
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Raging For Rhinos
As grey clashes with brown, the earth moves. One after another, like a steady drum beating to a rhythmic chant, prints the size of a melon are etched into the earth’s canvas. Slowly, water trickles in, filling the divots to…
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We Have a “Big” Announcement!
Reid Park Zoo is happy to announce Lety, the twelve-year-old female tamandua, and Santiago, a fifteen-year-old male tamandua welcomed a male baby tamandua on August 31. Although the little one has yet to be named, the animal care staff have…
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Celebrate National Zoo Keeper Week and Get to Know a Keeper!
As the blistering summer sun rises above the desert horizon and illuminates Reid Park Zoo, Keepers busily make their way around the animal habitats, cleaning and setting out enrichment items for the animals. Each day, Zoo Keepers must brave the…
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Coming to Your Zoo: Bigger Spaces. Smiling Faces.
Exciting improvements are coming to Reid Park Zoo for the animals and for our guests, thanks to our community’s support! When Tucson’s voters passed Propositions 202 and 203 in November 2017, you gave your zoo the resources to make the…
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