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Bringing the Zoo to You

Join us for updates of what our furred, flippered, and feathered friends are up to and how our zookeepers are caring for them. Check out our 2024 Bringing the Zoo to You library below, along with links to 2020-2023.

🦒 Have you met our giraffe herd? Stop by the giraffe feeding platform during your next visit to feed Zawadi, Asali, Gigi, and Kamili daily at 11am and 2pm. Our giraffes eat about 80 pounds of Alfalfa hay throughout the day, along with grain, 20 heads of lettuce, and carrots.

Turtle-y awesome news! It was a second chance at life for 12 green sea turtles as we released them back into the Gulf of Mexico thanks to our partnership between Houston Zoo and Texas A&M University Galveston’s Campus Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research. The sea turtles were found cold stunned in Galveston and Matagorda Bays during the subfreezing temperatures in January and spent a month and a half under Houston Zoo veterinary care. Read more: bit.ly/3PaHRyY

Breeding season kicks off this week for our Houston Toads Recovery Program. We have about 800 toads in our collection and will be working with our partners to release eggs every week in Bastrop County. In 2023, we released 1.3 million eggs into the wild.

Our Komodo dragon, Phoenix, helped us celebrate #LunarNewYear this week! 🐉 Komodo dragons are the largest lizard in the world and are found only in the Komodo Islands. Luckily, you can see both Phoenix and Boga during your next Zoo visit.

This week was three times sweeter at Houston Zoo as our critically endangered radiated tortoises turned one year old on Valentine’s Day. You can visit Dill, Gherkin, and Jalapeño in person at our Reptile & Amphibian House. 

Marv is 8 months old and as active as can be! He’s starting to brachiate, which is a hand-over-hand motion to use their long arms to swing from tree to tree. Marv even has a mini jungle gym to practice his climbing that has a lot of the same things in his exhibit. Watch Marv in action on this week’s livestream!

Our red river hogs, Neptune, Luna, and Pinto, made their debut on Facebook Live this week! They’re omnivores and are excellent diggers. The space of their face works like a shovel and helps them “root” aka forage for food. See them in action on this week’s livestream.

Asian small-clawed otters like to explore their environment with their hands rather than their noses like other otter species. They tap and feel around in the water and on land to forage for food like clams, shrimp, fish, and live crickets. See them in action on this week’s livestream.

🐧 Penguin Awareness Day is this Friday! Breeding season is officially underway, so our Humboldt penguins are starting to court each other and pair up. Stop by their exhibit inside of Galapagos Islands to see our colony in person and go up close with some of our penguins on this week’s livestream.

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Click here to view our 2023 library.

Click here to view our 2022 library.

Click here to view our 2021 library.

Click here to view our 2020 library.