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July 26, 2024
Zoo News
National Zookeeper Week 2024
The Virginia Zoo’s animal care professionals work across 7 distinct teams and all have different specialties. To celebrate their hard work...
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June 28, 2024
Zoo News
The Zoo Spells Conservation With 3 C’s
The animals you will encounter during a visit to the Virginia Zoo are remarkable in every way: they are beautiful, they represent species from...
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April 23, 2021
Volunteer Appreciation
Alison The Zoo Crew Volunteer
We’re continuing our Volunteer Appreciation Week celebration with an interview with Alison, a Zoo Crew Volunteer who has been volunteering with...
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April 21, 2021
Volunteer Appreciation
Sue The Zoo Crew Volunteer
“I came to volunteer here at the Zoo in 2016 with the hope of becoming a husbandry volunteer in the ZooFarm. Since there was a requirement of...
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April 19, 2021
Volunteer Appreciation
Gill’s Decades As A Zoo Volunteer
Gill has been volunteering for the Master Gardeners at the Virginia Zoo since 1991. Yep, he’s been a volunteer here for 30 years officially on...
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April 9, 2021
Tales of the Tails
We’re Stumped On A Title For This Blog
Just kidding, we knew exactly what we wanted to call this month’s Tales of the Tails blog, featuring one of our coolest bird species, but we...
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April 7, 2021
Animeals
Belated Birthday Bouquet
She’s big, beautiful, has experience with babies and recently celebrated her birthday – it’s Imara the giraffe! This experienced...
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March 20, 2021
Tales of the Tails
Pure Mint Gold
There are more than 100 different species of poison dart frogs. These types of frogs didn’t earn their name from speed, but rather from...
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March 17, 2021
Animeals
Sweet And Salty
Clover is one of the Zoo’s two miniature zebu, a smaller breed of cattle. Recently, on March 11, Clover turned five years old! Chef Yohn...
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March 12, 2021
New Arrivals
Two New Otterly Adorable Additions
The Virginia Zoo’s two newest additions are otterly adorable. Asian small-clawed otters Puba and Alana arrived last month as social companions as...
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March 4, 2021
Animeals
The Chef’s Special
Meet Chef Yohn, the Keeper who is primarily responsible for slicing, dicing, chopping and preparing the food for the Virginia Zoo’s animals,...
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