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Guest blogger: Tymesha Davis, Zoo Academy Student Hello readers and/or commenters, my name is Tymesha Davis and I’m an 11th grade student from Zoo Academy. I want to write about an animal I experienced in my Lab. What’s a lab? As a student I spend time working in different departments at the Zoo. And one […]
Saarai (Photo: Shasta Bray) Camels are even-toed ungulates (hoofed animals) that have

Several birds have begun sharing space with new bird friends and a few have even

CINCINNATI, OH (April 2, 2011) – Tessa, the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden’s four-year-old Maasai giraffe gave birth to her first calf this morning, April 2 at 9:40 a.m. in her indoor stall. This news is especially exciting considering that the last time the Zoo celebrated a giraffe birth was nearly 26 years ago!  The […]
actually dates back to 1889 when it became the first zoo in the Western Hemisphere to have

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

Euathlus smithi Invertebrates, Beauty, gentleness and slow reproduction may have

Making my way toward the front of the schoolbus, I hoisted my backpack onto my shoulders and braced myself for the noise. The bus doors folded open, and as I stepped down onto the pavement, the cacophony of tiny voices enveloped me from all sides. It felt like the trees were all screaming in unison, […]
I’m here to reassure you that the worst experience you will ever have with a cicada

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

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

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.”

Cincinnati Zoo’s First Baby of 2016 is…a Little (aka Blue) Penguin Update:  The little blue penguin chick hatched on January 8th and received the name “Bowie” for the music icon that it shares a birthday with. The penguin chick’s name has since taken on added meaning since the death of legend David Bowie.  Video of little […]
“Ultrasounds have shown that the baby is in position and Ali is as big as a house