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A group of children, most appearing to be Black, are gathered in a grassy area with dense foliage, listening to a person in a military-style uniform who is gesturing and pointing. The children are wearing various colored tops and dresses. The children are students from the UNITE program on a field trip.


Saving Animals

A School on the Other Side of the World: Taking Lessons from a Rain Forest to the Savannah

UNITE to save the environment, all over the world!

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A Gorilla sitting with its legs tucked under it. The large, muscular animal is looking at the viewer, one hand resting on the ground while the other is clenched near his chest.
Animal Care Blogs

Zoo Research: Let’s be the Greatest Apes we can be!

Did you know that you are a GREAT ape?  

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A small, lean black bird with yellow patches on its wing and backside under its tail called a Yellow Rumped Caciques. It is perched on a tiny branch with a lush forest blurred in the background.
Animal Care Blogs

Yellow-rumped Caciques

Spring means nesting and chicks for yellow-rumped caciques!

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A small Rufous fantail bird with a brown body, a white throat, and a dramatically fanned, reddish-orange tail, perched on a branch amidst dark green leaves.
Saving Animals

Birds on the Edge: Preventing Extinction of Endangered Birds in the Mariana Islands

According to the legend, this tiny bird with a flashy reddish-brown tail would lure children deep into the forest...

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A busy, educational graphic panel displaying a montage of chimpanzee portraits and information. The collage features approximately twelve close-up photos of chimpanzee faces showing various expressions and features, each paired with text and arrows that point to specific characteristics, likely for identifying individuals.
Animal Care Blogs

Chimpanzee Management

In order to better replicate the social structure of chimpanzees, zoos started moving towards housing larger troops

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A mother Red Wolf standing protectively over her four small pups who are huddled together next to a rock in a forested area.
Saving Animals

Carolina Canid Conservation: What is an American Red Wolf?

My dream is to never have anyone have to ask, “What is a Red Wolf?” ever again.

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A Rhinoceros with muddy skin, long flat ears and sharp horn, stands grazing in a vast field with trees in the background. Next to it, a baby Rhinoceros is standing and staring off to the left.
It's a Zoo

When Jojo Met Jojo: Hope for Rhinos

Today, I am even more thrilled knowing that a rhino's legacy and his keeper in Kenya will live on in the story of how our Jojo got her name.

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A group of people, mostly young adults and children, stand behind a rope barrier watching a demonstration in a wooded area. In the foreground, a large black vulture is landing or taking off from the ground next to a thick tree stump, with its wings spread wide.
Saving Animals

Catch a Vulture by a Toe: Soap of the Savannah

Vultures are the best clean-up crew

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A zoo keeper or caretaker wearing a dark blue top and jeans, leaning over a low concrete barrier to feed a large American alligator that is partially submerged in water. The person has their hand, which appears to be gloved, extended toward the alligator's open mouth. The background is a lush, green outdoor enclosure with dense foliage and trees.
Animal Care Blogs

Alligator Care and Training

Did you know we train our alligators?!

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