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Just like adult Red River hogs, hoglets have the signature bright orange coats, but
Just like adult Red River hogs, hoglets have the signature bright orange coats, but
On Wednesday, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo said goodbye to Msichana [muh-SCHAW-nuh], a nearly 21-year-old female reticulated giraffe. After months of successful treatment for age-related issues, Msichana declined quickly over her last two days, and her care team made the difficult, but compassionate, decision to humanely euthanize her. Msichana was well-known among CMZoo members and online fans, . . .
Those lessons have shaped their training program and benefitted giraffe around the
A snow leopard’s tail is an incredibly useful tool. About as long as their bodies, their tails act as a counterbalance, so they can make hairpin turns at lightning speed in the wild. When they’re pursuing prey in their native Himalayan Mountains, their tails act like an automatic rudder on a speed boat, instinctively correcting . . .
“We know kidney disease is common in aging cats, and we have successfully monitored
The soft serenade of Wyoming toad mating calls will soon echo through the hallways of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo conservation center, as Field Conservation Coordinator Jeff Baughman welcomes ten breeding pairs of critically endangered amphibians back from 38 days of hibernation. “It’s a busy time of year for us,” said Baughman, who has been intimately . . .
Soon, we’ll have our hands full, welcoming thousands of their babies into our care
Meerkat Pups March 27, 2024 Slender-tailed meerkat mom, Hullabaloo, and dad, Sage, have
Jumbe for nine years. “He’s actually really gentle,� said Dinwiddie. “I have
COLORADO – Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s partners at Children’s Hospital Colorado have
Since 2016, CMZoo’s scheduled paid elephant feeding opportunities have sent $25,000
As we had hoped, all six participating Colorado Supreme Court justices unanimously ruled in our favor. In June 2023, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP/NRP) filed a frivolous lawsuit aiming to remove the Zoo’s five aging African elephants from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. The lawsuit was dismissed, and NhRP appealed that decision by taking it to the . . .
Now they have officially lost in Colorado.
Through Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s annual Member Conservation Vote, CMZoo members are funding an important ongoing study on the movements of wild black bears in the Pikes Peak region. In 2022, members voted to spend conservation-allocated membership revenue on GPS ear tags that Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) officers use when reintroducing black bears to the . . .
CPW biologists speculate she may not have been able to care for all four cubs.