Tag: animal
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Who’s Who at the Zoo | Guinea Pigs
Meet the guinea pigs at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.
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Who’s Who at the Zoo | Abyssinian Ground Hornbills
Meet Petrie and Layla, the Abyssinian ground hornbills at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.
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LIFE | Colorado zoo helps in long effort to save imperiled toad
The morning of June 7, 2023 marked an annual, early summer tradition for Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and several other facilities tasked with raising the tiny, imperiled creature. June is typically when members of the Wyoming Toad Recovery Team converge at the Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge outside Laramie, Wyo., to release toads to their only…
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LIFE | Goats help Colorado Springs property owners with fire mitigation
Goat Mowers LLC in El Paso County will bring goats to your property to do fire mitigation. Goats are an ideal fire mitigators because they can get in places that equipment can’t, and they don’t reseed in their manure, unlike other ruminant animals such as cows, which do drop their seed. (Video by Skyler Ballard/…
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Who’s Who at the Zoo | Tree Kangaroo
Meet Tristan, the Matschie’s tree kangaroo at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.
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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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BUSINESS | New $2 million dog day care, boarding facility opens in Fountain
Boardmoor Pet Resort, a new 18,807-square-foot facility in Fountain, opened just over a month ago with 74 kennels, radiant-heated floors and an automated ventilation system. Owners Dan and Lea O’Sullivan call it a dog’s “home away from home.”
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NEWS | Mountain lions caught on camera in Georgetown, Colorado
Security cameras captured mountain lions exploring a neighborhood in Georgetown, Colorado. (Video provided by Mayor Parker the Snow Dog)