Central Park Zoo July 31, 2011
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The temperatures dropped to seasonable ones this week and the crowds came out to play at the Central Park Zoo. This week’s montage features our Banded Mongoose, new Scarlet Ibis chicks, Sierra, the Peregrine Falcon, Biru, our male Red Panda, Gus, the Polar Bear, enjoying a cool swim and more.
Think Snow in July July 24, 2011
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While baking in this awful summer heat I recalled that on December 27, 2010 we got hit with about 20 inches of snow at the Central Park Zoo. I thought these cool snowy shots from that day might help to lower the blistering heat a bit as we are now in a 100 degree oven in the Baked Apple. If you are looking to cool off a bit more, check out a few of last winter’s photo montages and videos. Let it snow! , Central Park Zoo Snow Days and lastly, Yes, More Snow.
Prospect Park Zoo and Zookeeper Appreciation Week July 17, 2011
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Today starts National ZooKeeper Appreciation Week. If you go to a zoo this week – tell a keeper or two that you appreciate what they do. I know that I will.
This week’s photo montage takes you to the Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn. The zoo looks beautiful as do all of the residents including the delightful rock wallaby family, emus, golden lion tamarins, pallas cats, baboons, red pandas, red-eye tree frogs, otters and more. Check out the Rock Wallaby family in this WCS video shot in May 2011 below the photo montage.
Primates and Prosimians July 10, 2011
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Prosimians are the most primitive of the living primates, which also include the monkeys and apes. The name prosimian means pre-monkey. Here’s a link that explains the differences among primates, prosimians and apes. The beautiful animals featured in today’s photo montage include black and white ruffed lemurs, Japanese macaques, Sakis, cotton-top and lion-headed tamarins and can all be seen at the Central Park Zoo.
Check out this up-close and personal polar bear encounter we had at the Lincoln Park Zoo below today’s montage. It is guaranteed to cool you off in this summer’s heat.
Central Park Zoo July 3, 2011
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This week’s photos feature some of the smaller animals at the Central Park Zoo. Enjoy seeing one of the four baby Banded Mongoose, a young robin magpie and parent, two plumed whistling ducks, two stunning rajah ducks, a Eurasian Eagle Owl named Flaco, Lobo, one of our Coatis, a leaping baby sea lion named Edith, two of our fast growing goats, Lucy and Ringo, and more. Don’t forget to watch the King, Chinstrap and Gentoo Penguins swim for their fish at the Central Park Zoo below the photo montage.
Central Park Zoo’s Chinese Mergansers June 26, 2011
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The Central Park Zoo has successfully hatched eight critically endangered Chinese merganser ducklings — a first for any North American zoo. The eight ducklings were hatched, April 26, 2011. The zoo has two breeding pairs of Chinese mergansers, a species of sea duck found in eastern Asia. The Central Park Zoo maintains the largest public collection of sea ducks and the only zoo-kept Chinese Mergansers in North America. This great zoo news was everywhere this week. Click on any of the links below to see the story, photo and details.
The New York Times – NY 1 – The Associated Press – ABC World News – Zoo and Aquarium Visitor –
Our Amazing Planet – DNAinfo.com – Fox News –
The duckings are two months old today. You can visit them at the Central Park Tisch Children’s Zoo. Check out their photo in the title picture, see one of our four baby Banded Mongoose, our new male, red panda and more in today’s photo montage.
Happy Father’s Day June 19, 2011
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Happy Father’s Day! Enjoy this photo salute to some of the animal kingdom’s Dads. On a different subject, yesterday was the celebration of the sixth anniversary of the day I adopted my little dog, Benny. Savor this little video I created last year to honor his fifth anniversary.
Brookfield Zoo – Brookfield, IL June 17, 2011
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Zoo #6 of our ‘Six Zoos in Six Days‘ zoo-cation was the Brookfield Zoo. It has over 216 acres of habitats with a lot of walking between exhibits. Did I mention how hot it was? Despite the heat we had a fine visit. They have one sensational interactive polar bear that kept our attention. Hope you enjoyed this six zoo-cation as much as we did. We are already planning our next adventure.
Shedd Aquarium – Chicago June 16, 2011
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Zoo #5 of our ‘Six Zoos in Six Days‘ zoo-cation was an aquarium (still counts) – the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. It has what other fine aquariums offer including an aquatic show, a Caribbean reef, Jellies, an Oceanarium, Penguins, Belugas and more. The best part was that it was air conditioned. The temperature in Chicago that day was hovering around 96 degrees. Ouch.
Lincoln Park Zoo – Chicago June 15, 2011
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Zoo #4 of our ‘Six Zoos in Six Days‘ zoo-cation was the terrific, FREE, Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. It is the perfect size, easy to get to and is the perfect people’s park. Did I mention it is FREE?
While at the Zoo 