Tag: 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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Who’s Who at the Zoo | Tree Kangaroo
Meet Tristan, the Matschie’s tree kangaroo at the Cheyenne Mountain 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.