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Welcome to Polar Bear Week, also known as, my favorite week of the year! It’s early November. It’s cold. It’s snowy. Polar bears are waiting for the sea ice to form. Polar Bear Week coincides with the fall polar bear migration to Churchill, Manitoba, where polar bears gather to wait for freeze-up on Hudson Bay so […]
There’s no pregnancy test for polar bears, so we have to proceed as if cubs are on

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Written by Chelsea Wellmer, AmeriCorps Visitor Engagement Member With an exciting Zoo Babies season quickly approaching, I thought it was time to highlight a very special, yet elusive new addition to the Zoo family. Moyo, a male okapi calf, was born on February 12th to mom, Kuvua and dad, Kiloro. The name Moyo was chosen because […]
The name Moyo was chosen because it means ‘to have heart’ in Swahili, a sentiment

Two New Manatees Scheduled to be on Display Thursday, April 1 CINCINNATI – The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is excited to welcome two manatees to their new home at Otto M. Budig Family Foundation Manatee Springs! The Zoo’s first-ever female manatees, “Turner” and “CC Baby,” will arrive at the Zoo late Wednesday evening, March […]
Due to this condition, manatees like Turner, have been rescued and are recovering

Nobody gets more excited by a big, crunchy leaf of romaine lettuce than Kimba the giraffe. He can be all the way across the yard, and if someone on the Giraffe Ridge deck waves a lettuce leaf in the air, he’ll head directly for the railing. Wouldn’t you like to see your kids get that […]
As omnivores, humans have a lot of choices about what to eat!

Guests who are inside by the time gates close still have access to the trail.

Imagine if your body could only survive by eating one plant. And to make matters more complicated, that plant is getting harder and harder to find growing in the wild. How will you survive?! Hopefully you would lean on a little help from your friends to grow more of the plant to help you live. […]
agricultural practices, and using pesticides and spraying Roundup in our gardens have

CINCINNATI (September 17, 2016) – The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is excited to team up with AmeriCorps, aka the “domestic Peace Corps”, to bring fun, science-based educational opportunities to students in Cincinnati who need it the most and to challenge the community to step up and do more to conserve resources and wildlife. Learn […]
For more than 20 years, thousands of AmeriCorps members have provided direct and

The relationship between the majestic monarch butterfly and the humble milkweed plant is incredibly special. Monarch butterflies begin their lives on a milkweed plant–the only plant the adult butterfly will lay its eggs on. After the caterpillar hatches, they begin feasting on the plant’s leaves. As they eat, the caterpillars ingest toxins called cardenolides, the […]
There are many different kinds of milkweed around the US that have adapted to the

Written by: Emily Myers, Trainer, Cat Ambassador Program Today we celebrate Remus, our cheetah companion dog, as well as other adopted pets around the world! Remus was adopted from one of our local animal shelters, Animal Rescue Fund, back in the summer of 2019. He has a very important job here at the zoo: being […]
Max & Savanna In addition to Remus, we have had 2 other companion dogs adopted from