Featured Animals – Degu – CMZoo https://www.cmzoo.org/animals/a-z/featured-animals-degu/
Most people have never heard of these pint-sized rodents that are native to the grassy
Most people have never heard of these pint-sized rodents that are native to the grassy
Appropriate for ages 13 years old and up.
Alternate dessert will be available if the weather doesn’t allow us to have a fire
The time of gift giving is upon us, which means spending time thinking of the perfect gift to share with your loved ones. Cheyenne Mountain Zoo has some great ideas that can help you spend less time shopping and more time together. For the person who has everything or the animal lover who can’t get . . .
Loft Animal Encounters Have you ever been to the Zoo and looked at our armadillo
These adults will have to meet up with the groups at the drop-off area after the
The Tsavo Trust, which works to protect elephants and rhinos in Africa from illegal poaching, is gaining more ground, thanks to the continued support of Cheyenne Mountain Zoo guests. This year, donations are supporting the Trust’s long-term viability through infrastructure development, in addition to ongoing support for aerial surveys. Two $18,333 donations for infrastructure . . .
Two $18,333 donations for infrastructure have already been sent this year, along
conservation in action.� Since starting in November 2019, the bushfires in Australia have
With Mother’s Day around the corner, staff at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo are reflecting on one mother-daughter relationship that stands out: Bornean orangutans, Hadiah [huh-DEE-uh] and Ember. “They’re incredibly close,” Ashton Asbury, animal keeper in Primate World, says. “Great apes are intelligent and complex beings, and we see different parenting types in each of them. Hadiah, . . .
are mostly solitary as adults, unless they are interacting for breeding or they have
Join Digger and Emmett, CMZoo’s two 15-year-old male grizzly bears, and Rocky Mountain Wild Keepers, Sarah and Kristen, to get up close with the bears and learn about hibernation and torpor. Cooler temperatures mean the boys are preparing for winter, when they go into a slight stage of torpor and generally slow down a bit. . . .
Digger and Emmett as much as it affects their wild relatives, because our boys have
has been a focus at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo for nearly a decade, and while strides have
importantly, it means there are more toads breeding in the wild because they will have