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Oh, Baby!
Monkey Business While primates are clever, social animals, they do not all raise their young using the same strategy. The little one’s coloration can reveal something about its family life. For...
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Babies “R” Us: A Day in the ACC Nursery
It’s barely after dawn and the day begins with a load of laundry, followed by taking out the bottles of formula and setting them to warm. Then it’s time to check on the little ones and get them out of...
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Funani Knows Best
“Sleep when the baby sleeps.” No five words have done more to save the sanity of new moms—even those with four legs. A new bundle of joy can have a huge impact on its parents’ lifestyle, especially...
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Fur and Feathers
Buttercup would like to eat her Bermuda hay breakfast, but first the capybara must wait for G, the African spur-winged goose, to get up from sleeping in it. It’s just another day in this multi-species...
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Wonderful Winston
Powered by youthful exuberance, two young male gorillas tumble together as they wrestle. They stop for a moment, then zoom off, racing up, over, and under logs in their habitat. Most of the other...
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Year of the Dog
February 16 marks the beginning of Lunar New Year celebrations—and this year has been designated as the Year of the Dog. However, every year is a “year of the dog” at the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park,...
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Three Cheetah Cubs Being Cared for at Safari Park Animal Care Center
A crowd gathered outside the window of the San Diego Zoo Safari Park’s Ione and Paul Harter Animal Care Center nursery earlier today hoping to get a glimpse of three cheetah cubs. The three cheetah...
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Have you “Herd”?
Spend a bit of time at the Safari Park’s elephant viewing patio, and you are likely to run into a red-shirted volunteer like Eileen Jennings, who is here to share information and insights with Park...
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Happy Birthday, Joanne!
On March 12, 2018, Safari Park gorilla Joanne turned a year older. It didn’t take many words for Peggy Sexton, lead keeper, to sum up the “birthday gorilla”: “She’s four years old and adorable!”...
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The Pandas Are Back
While it may be fun to take a long vacation in new surroundings, there’s nothing like coming home again. The San Diego Zoo’s giant pandas have come back to Panda Trek, after a long “staycation” at...
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The band begins to play…
Each morning, eager to explore, a band of hamadryas baboons Papio hamadryas rockets out of their bedrooms, their enthusiastic chorus of low grunts resounding through the Africa Rocks habitat. The large...
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Somali Wild Ass Foal Explores Habitat
An almost 1-month-old Somali wild ass foal kicked up her heels and nuzzled her mom as she explored her exhibit at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The little foal, yet to be named, was born March 17....
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Oh, Snap!
Despite barely tipping the scale at less than six ounces, the African dwarf crocodile hatchlings at the San Diego Zoo are still making quite the splash. The 14 baby reptiles are the first of their...
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Leaping Lemurs!
The Zoo’s Conrad Prebys Africa Rocks is home to five different lemur species, which makes for lively times in the exhibit treetops. One of these remarkable species is the Coquerel’s sifaka (pronounced...
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Legendary Leapers
From big, familiar California natives to tiny, endangered South American rain forest dwellers, frogs and toads are a varied bunch. Some are wildly colorful and others are well camouflaged. With skin as...
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Beautiful Bongos
They walk softly and carry big horns. With crisp, thin, white stripes breaking up the russet color of their coat, bongos seem to easily blend into the shadows of their native rain forest habitat. The...
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Australian Adventure
Australia is an extraordinary place. It is the world’s largest island, and the only island that is also a continent. It’s also the only continent that is a country—the sixth largest country in the...
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The Casque
Looming well over five feet tall, with shimmering jet-black feathers, vibrant head and neck skin that rivals a painter’s palette, and a dramatic helmet-like casque atop its head, the southern cassowary...
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The Kids Are All Right
Cahaya, a bouncing baby Sulawesi babirusa, is growing up quickly and exploring her surroundings. Jethro and Mary-Kate Plus One On March 10, 2018, in the Zoo’s Lost Forest, Sulawesi babirusa Mary-Kate...
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Rock On
No matter where you look, there is something incredible to see—and hear. Representing a place famous for its biodiversity, Conrad Prebys Africa Rocks is an immersive experience of that awe-inspiring...
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