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Have you ever wondered “hoo� comes out when the sun goes down?
Have you ever wondered “hoo� comes out when the sun goes down?
has been a focus at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo for nearly a decade, and while strides have
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo has been in what is known among the staff as “sprint mode” for the past three days to ensure that guests are able to visit again, starting Saturday. The Zoo will reopen for members at 8 a.m. and for the general public at 9 a.m. on Sat., Aug. 11 after being closed following an unprecedented hail storm on Monday afternoon. The storm caused guest and staff injuries, animal injuries and deaths, and extensive property damage.
Animal keepers have been asked to get animals ready to resume “life as normal,” which
With keeper talks and animal demonstrations throughout the day, The Loft provides hands-on and up-close opportunities with smaller animals like tortoises, skunks, snakes, lizards and more. My Big Backyard is home to chickens, bunnies and a treehouse that’s home to lots of amphibians and invertebrates. What you may not know is that with a little . . .
Animal Encounters Have you ever been to the Zoo, visited our three-banded 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
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
conservation in action.� Since starting in November 2019, the bushfires in Australia 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
importantly, it means there are more toads breeding in the wild because they will have