Blog – Page 42 – Virginia Zoo

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...

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...

April 17, 2017

Recipes for the Animals Turtley Awesome Animeals

The warm weather means more of our animals come out of their temperature controlled shelters to bask in the sun or take dips in their pools. The same...

April 11, 2017

Animal Arrivals The Virginia Zoo Welcomes Two Genetically Important White Rhinos

The Virginia Zoo is proud to announce the acquisition of two juvenile White rhinos, Bora and Zina. The female rhinos arrived at the Virginia Zoo...

April 1, 2017

Animal Education Animal Tricksters

April Fools! As most of you are aware, today is an international holiday where millions of people all over the world fall victim to tricks, pranks...

March 22, 2017

Tales of the Tails Animal Stories I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Screamers!

Step foot into the ZooFarm and chances are you’ll hear all sorts of noises – from the cows and zebu mooing, to the sheep baaing, the pigs...

March 20, 2017

Zoolidays World Frog Day

Ribbit. Ribbit. Ribbit. That sound is a big unison hello from all the frogs at the Virginia Zoo! They want to welcome you to World Frog Day,...

March 9, 2017

Recipes for the Animals Animeals – Cake Cake Cake

It’s that time again to step into the Zoo’s Diet Kitchen with Chef Yohn for another Animeals recipe walkthrough! Chef Yohn must have had...

March 3, 2017

Conservation World Wildlife Day

Today is World Wildlife Day! On December 20, 2013, the United Nations designated March 3 as World Wildlife Day, a day to celebrate and raise...

February 27, 2017

Conservation National Invasive Species Awareness Week

This week is National Invasive Species Awareness Week. Although we tend to think of invasive species more as pests than true threats, these...

February 22, 2017

Animal Stories Tales Of The Tails – It’s Binturong And Oh So Right!

It’s a bear. No, it’s a primate. Or maybe it’s a cat. Actually, it’s neither one of those animals. It’s a binturong!...