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Guest blogger: Sarah Lang, Zoo Intern You can’t get a job without experience, but you can’t get experience without a job. It’s the classic conundrum everyone is facing as they emerge from college dorm cocoons and are stretching their new adult wings. As if that isn’t hard enough, the animal field is incredibly challenging to […]
I was accepted and only have one year left in the program at this point.

On Sept 9, 2017 the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden (CZBG) and conservation organizations across the planet recognize World Great Ape Day.  This charismatic group of primates has been part of our community throughout most of the Cincinnati Zoo’s long, rich history. CZBG has had the honor to […]
Although certainly not an ancestor of humans, they have followed along on a common

Lion expert Craig Packer joins impressive list of award recipients CINCINNATI (May 4, 2017) – For the last 25 years, the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden has presented its Wildlife Conservation Award to one of its Barrows Conservation Lecture Series speakers. The 2017 award was presented on May 3 to Dr. Craig Packer, a distinguished […]
The list of conservationists who have been honored with the award also includes Ted

Your Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, the greenest zoo in the country, is working towards making its neighborhood of Avondale one of Cincinnati’s most energy efficient neighborhoods, thanks to a grant from the Duke Class Benefit Fund. The grant, worth $425,000, is allowing the upgrade of lightbulbs to the much more energy efficient, cooler, and […]
In the community, we have conducted lighting audits for 7 non-profits and churches

Mom and baby are bonding in their behind-the-scenes den Seven-year-old takin Sally gave birth to a healthy calf on Saturday, March 18, 2017, around 2pm at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. Her previous calf, born in 2015, had to be hand-reared due to medical issues, so this is her first real attempt to raise […]
see that Sally is being so attentive to this calf and that her maternal instincts have

First red panda cubs with birthdates accurately predicted using ultrasonography and hormone monitoring. CINCINNATI, OH (August 2, 2015) – “Dr. Erin Curry” may seem like an odd name for a red panda cub, but it’s fitting for the female cub born last month to two-year-old red panda, “Lin.”  Lin and “Bailey,” a seven-year-old red panda […]
off-display area that allows females to choose where they are most comfortable to have

Even though she was nearly 21 years old, she was still a baby to me. I guess we sort of grew up together at the zoo. I had only been a keeper a few years when she was born. She was the only female cub of a litter of four, but she was a motivated […]
In the past couple of years, I haven’t gotten to be with Gracie much, as I have moved

CINCINNATI, OH (March 22, 2016) – Willow, mother of the five cheetah cubs born via C-section at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden’s Cheetah Breeding Facility on March 8, has passed away. Zoo vets were hopeful that the five-year-old cheetah would make a full recovery following surgery, but she remained lethargic and lost her appetite […]
Without the C-section, we likely would have lost both the mom and the cubs.”

Plasma from father-to-be Faru banked to help calf if needed CINCINNATI, OH  (June 16, 2017) –  Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden’s black rhino Faru might be a shoe-in for father of the year, and his calf hasn’t even been born yet.  Hoxworth Blood Center, University of Cincinnati has been processing blood collected from the 12-year-old […]
processing blood collected from the 12-year-old rhino for the past nine weeks to have

Everyone noticed how confidently he walks through the crowd. Maybe his strut has something to do with him always showing up so well-dressed? He seems to know that all eyes are looking down at him. The excited gazes are because he’s a Magellanic penguin standing one and a half feet tall. Known as Buddy the […]
penguins attribute their species’ name to Ferdinand Magellan the first person known to have