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January 16, 2026

Zoo News Blast Into The Virginia Zoo’s Past: Celebrating 125 Wild Years

In 1892, the City of Norfolk purchased 65 acres of land which were officially designated as Lafayette Park in 1899. Throughout 1900, Lafayette Park...

November 21, 2025

Zoo News A Week In The Life Of A Global Protagonist

The Virginia Zoo Conservation and Research Grant offers staff the opportunity to engage in on-site conservation projects and community science...

March 30, 2018

Volunteers Students “chews” To Volunteer At Zoo By Scraping Gum

Braving the chilly and windy weather, 22 students and five teachers from the Nansemond-Suffolk Academy volunteered their time to remove chewing gum...

March 20, 2018

Tales of the Tails Leaps And Bounds

Hop on in for another great edition of Tales of the Tails, the blog series that features one of the many species of animals you can find right here...

March 5, 2018

Education Reasons To Become A Safari Camper

It may still be chilly out, but we at the Virginia Zoo are gearing up for another fabulous year of Safari Camp! Explore mythical monsters, crack zoo...

February 22, 2018

Tales of the Tails Beary Cool Animals

The Virginia Zoo has two pairs of bears, moon bear brothers Thai and Chai, and sun bear couple Palu and Suntil. For this edition of Tales of the...

February 21, 2018

Baby Animals Emery Is On Exhibit!

Making his exhibit debut today along side mom, Zola, Emery thoroughly enjoyed exploring his new outdoor home! Currently the lions are rotating...

February 16, 2018

Animeals Daily Diets For The Animals

Sometimes Zoo Chef Yohn gets to be creative with food by making special treats for the animals, but on most days he spends his time slicing, dicing...

February 14, 2018

Species Survival Programs Playing Matchmaker

Valentine’s Day is today, which means us humans either already have a date for tonight or might be hopeful we’ll find a date before the...

February 6, 2018

Rhino Introductions Three’s Company

In case you’ve missed it, the Virginia Zoo now has three Southern White rhinos on exhibit! Sisters Bora and Zina were joined by an older male...

January 30, 2018

Tales of the Tails Not All Black And White

What looks like a horse, lives in Africa and has black and white stripes? A zebra, of course! Known as one of the more easily recognizable creatures...