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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 […]
They have long legs to reach into burrows to hunt mice and also to jump up to five

In the last century, African penguins have lost 97% of their population.

On Feb 14, Valentine’s Day, the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden (CZBG) and conservation organizations across the planet recognize the 2nd annual World Bonobo Day.  Very appropriate day considering the bonobos’ affinity for “extreme closeness” with each other.  This charismatic species of primate has been part of our community here in Cincinnati since the late […]
Although certainly not an ancestor of humans, they have followed along on a common

CINCINNATI (July 1, 2013) The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is excited to announce that Gladys, the five-month-old Western lowland gorilla who captured the hearts of animal-lovers around the world earlier this year, after being rejected by her mom, is now living with her new gorilla surrogate mom. Gladys began the introduction to her new […]
over a week of bonding, staff at the Cincinnati Zoo are very positive that the two have

Happy International Cheetah Day! There are approximately 7,100 cheetahs remaining worldwide, making the cheetah Africa’s most endangered big cat The Cincinnati Zoo’s Cat Ambassador Program (CAP) was started in 1980 by Cathryn Hilker. CAP educates more than 150,000 people a year through its many programs with its ambassador cheetahs. Aside from this year, from April to October, […]
From having to have a feeding tube, to FHO hip surgery, it took Redd a while to fully

Without host plants in the landscape, butterflies and moths have nowhere to rear

Endangered Ocelot Born at the Texas Zoo from Novel Artificial Insemination Validates Method An ocelot kitten born four weeks ago at the Texas Zoo in Victoria was produced using a new artificial insemination (AI) approach that improves the timing of AI relative to the female’s ovarian cycle. The birth of a healthy kitten helps to […]
There have only been two other ocelots listed in the North American studbook during

survive the conditions of seed banking, are short-lived in seed banks, or they have

 CINCINNATI – (July 21, 2013) “Harapan,” a six-year-old male Sumatran rhino born at the Cincinnati Zoo in 2007 and later moved to the White Oak Conservation Center in Florida and then on to the Los Angeles Zoo, returned home in July in an effort to help save his rapidly disappearing species from extinction.   With no […]
“Without the work of the Cincinnati Zoo we would not have had the success that we