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As you are probably aware (if you live in a state that participates in it, like we do), Daylight Saving Time began this week, meaning we moved our clocks forward an hour. A question I have been asked a few times is whether or not the animals seem to be affected by the time change. … Continue reading "Panda Updates – Wednesday, March 17"

I mentioned in a previous update that we are leading into what would be the pandas’ typical breeding season. Even though Lun Lun and Yang Yang are no longer breeding, we do still see them demonstrate the behaviors associated with this season. Over the last few weeks, we have seen Yang Yang demonstrate some of … Continue reading "Panda Updates – Monday, March 15"

Even after being at the Zoo for eight years, I am always learning something new, and that is often thanks to the excellent questions our guests ask us! As a swing keeper I work with many species, so I’ll never be able to know everything about all of them, but that doesn’t mean I don’t … Continue reading "Panda Updates – Friday, March 12"

Hey everyone – This is Ash, from the Herpetology (reptiles and amphibians) Team here. I am happy say that spring is just around the corner! As the weather is warming up, you may even be lucky enough to see some of our local reptiles emerging from overwintering. One of my recent interactions with a guest … Continue reading "Meet your backyard brown snake"

A playful panda sure can muddy the water! Spring is hopefully just around the corner. This means that on nice days, we can fill the pools for the pandas in their outdoor habitats. The giant pandas have separate sources of clean and continually refreshed drinking water; the pools are for play! Yang Yang especially is … Continue reading "Panda Updates – Monday, March 8"

If you have ever been to one of World of Wild Theater presentations where a parrot is in the lineup, you would have had a pretty good chance of hearing a joke about how the parrots still use an old box TV and VHS player to watch movies. Until very recently, that was actually not … Continue reading "Parrots have favorite movies?"

Our second installment of our year-long coverage of the wildlife trade focuses on trade in our own backyards. You have probably heard about the wildlife trade and trafficking as something that happens in other countries, as the most notable stories are of elephants and rhinos being killed in Africa or tigers being poached in Indonesia, … Continue reading "The wildlife trade in our own backyard"

Get excited, college basketball fans! Your favorite month of the year has arrived. Many associate the month of March with the game of basketball. Specifically, they think of the NCAA Men’s and Women’s tournaments that are held to decide who is the best basketball team in the land. Right now, I can already feel the … Continue reading "March Madness!"

If you follow our panda updates regularly, you may have some familiarity with our “bamboo chronicles.” Giant pandas can be very picky about what bamboo they choose to eat. This is with good reason, as bamboo itself can take a lot of energy to eat and digest. There are around 200 species of bamboo that … Continue reading "Panda Updates – Wednesday, February 24"

Whew! Six years of work paid off last week with the publication of a big paper in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It was widely covered by the media, and already the author of an influential textbook on vertebrate biology has reached out to us to include our images and … Continue reading "Snake scales are really cool!"