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Live Bluegrass Music and Lumberjack Show Featured at ZooGrass Festival CINCINNATI, OH – On Saturday, October 1, from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m., the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden will welcome the autumn foliage with its first ZooGrass Festival!  Guests will enjoy foot-stompin’, hand-clappin’ Bluegrass music from the tri-state’s favorite bands along with Hank Peter’s […]
With their release of the debut album, “A Rubber Knife Life”, they have quickly become

If you’ve been to the Zoo in recent years you’ve probably had an encounter of the wild kind. Maybe you’ve rounded a corner to find a Zoo team member holding a big ball python, ready to introduce it to you. Maybe someone has shown you how to feed lettuce to the giraffes and even snapped […]
Have you ever tried keeping up with an alpaca? It’s not as easy as it looks.

By: Lauren D. Pharr, Graduate Research Assistant in Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology; Ornithologist, & Science Communicator Birdwatching has become a wonderful activity for researchers and nature enthusiast everywhere. Nature provides one with a sense of calmness and peace, and also brings wonders to a curious mind at work. Backyard birdwatching is a hobby for any […]
that red dyes are linked to causing harmful effects to Hummingbirds who have been

CINCINNATI, OH (March 11, 2014) – Tessa, the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden’s six-year-old Maasai giraffe is pregnant again, and due in the next few weeks.   Tessa, and father “Kimba,” are both doing well and can currently be seen at the Zoo’s Giraffe Ridge exhibit. Due to the overwhelming response during the last birth, the […]
births dates back to 1889 when it became the first zoo in the Western Hemisphere to have

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National Leadership Grant Awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services CINCINNATI, OH (August 7, 2023) – Scientists at The Lindner Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW) at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden will now be able to expand research efforts that currently focus on polar bears to include all […]
The Cincinnati Zoo is one of only 10 accredited zoos in the U.S. that have reproductive

First black rhino born at the Cincinnati Zoo since 1999 After what seems like a very long wait (a 15-month gestation period), Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden’s eastern black rhino Seyia gave birth to a healthy calf named “Kendi” yesterday morning at 5:05 after about 30 minutes of labor.  Surveillance cameras inside the rhino barn […]
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Moves to top of AZA’s national breeding award winner list CINCINNATI, OH (September 28, 2015) – The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is proud to announce that its World of the Insect has been recognized by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) with the prestigious Edward H. Bean Award for its work with giant […]
“We have maintained this species since 2000, representing 13 generations.

When our young giraffes, Cora and Zoey, were born last summer, visitors would often remark on how small these gangly baby giraffes looked. Imagine calling a six-foot, 150-pound animal small! Giraffes are creatures of contradictions, and World Giraffe Day provides an opportunity to examine a few of them. They’re the tallest land mammals on the […]
You see, things have changed since last year’s World Giraffe Day.

Amiry Update Amiry’s health has improved enough after receiving care in our veterinary facility that we were able to move him to the Cat Ambassador Program. He is still getting used to his new environment and caregivers and is eating well and moving around his new habit indoors and outside. Why Exotic Animals Don’t Make […]
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