Tag: zoo
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Who’s Who at the Zoo | Veiled Chameleon
Meet Girl George, the veiled chameleon at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.
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Who’s Who at the Zoo | Rocky Mountain Goats
Meet the Rocky Mountain goats at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. (Video by Skyler Ballard / The Gazette)
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WATCH: The Denver Zoo holds, “Baby Sloth Naming Competition”
After a DNA test to reveal the newborn sloth’s gender (as they don’t have external genitalia), the Denver Zoo determined their new Linne’s two-toed sloth was in fact a boy. Now the zoo is holding a naming competition for the sloth, with the public eligible to vote between names chosen by the sloth’s handlers for…
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Who’s Who at the Zoo | Amur Tiger
Meet Chewy, the 7-year-old Amur tiger at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. (Video by Skyler Ballard/ The Gazette)
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Who’s Who at the Zoo | Alaska moose
Meet Atka, the Alaskan moose at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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Seven Ukrainian lions taken to the Wild Animal Refuge in Springfield, Colo.
A remote wildlife sanctuary west of Springfield, Colo. welcomed seven lions from a war-torn zoo in Odessa, Ukraine earlier this month. After making the arduous seven-month-long journey from Ukraine to Romania to Colorado, the young lions will spend the rest of their lives at the refuge in peace.
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Who’s Who at the Zoo | African Elephants
Meet the female African elephant herd at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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LIFE | A butterfly oasis just beyond Denver
Into its 27th year, the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, Colo. is proud to call itself the only invertebrate-focused zoo of its kind accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Invertebrates are said to account for 94% of the world’s entire animal kingdom. That, along with their documented demise, underscores the importance of Butterfly Pavilion’s…