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Animals listed here may have a threatened or endangered conservation status with
Animals listed here may have a threatened or endangered conservation status with
We have been keeping you informed as Abuto’s kidney disease and high blood pressure
Let’s Go Outside! Outdoor School Provides Nature-Based Programs for All Ages Spending time in nature can help reduce stress, increase balance, and trigger happiness! Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is offering a new series of programs for those who are interested in connecting with nature, the outdoors, and their families through hands-on interactive experiences. Classes will engage . . .
Kids who have the best time in this program get excited about getting dirty while
Finn, an 8-year-old Red River hog at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, became a first-time mom last week. Keepers were greeted by a brand-new baby Red River hog in the early hours of Thurs., Aug. 29. Although first-time dad, Gus, and Finn had been seen breeding, keepers were not certain a baby was on the way. “It . . .
Just like adult Red River hogs, hoglets have the signature bright orange coats, but
Last month, volunteers and conservation experts gathered in Wyoming’s Laramie Basin to release hundreds of critically endangered Wyoming toads to their wild native habitat. 200 of the toads were raised at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, including 10 little toads that CMZoo fans and guests named and followed online as they prepared for their big job: helping . . .
For many years, 1-year-old toads and tadpoles have been released each summer.
As a conservation organization in Colorado, water savings are high on the list of local preservation focuses for Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Five CMZoo staff members and a CMZoo board member recently returned from a two-day trip to Del Norte in the Rio Grande Basin of Southern Colorado. There, they got to witness how water truly . . .
visited reservoirs, water delivery facilities, and several streams where flows have
Although Water’s Edge: Africa’s opening date hasn’t been set, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is steadily preparing to welcome home Zambezi (zam-BEE-zee) and Kasai (kuh-SIGH), two female Nile hippopotamuses who are taking an extended vacation at Dickerson Park Zoo, in Springfield, Missouri. They moved there in 2016 to allow us to build a new state-of-the-art exhibit for . . .
Both hippos enjoy participating in training, but Kasai tends to have a more dominant
which is the first set of waterproof feathers that replaces the soft down chicks have
It could have been luck.
Over the years, funds allocated from Zoo membership revenue and daytime admissions have