#minnesota zoo

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

Announcement today from the Minnesota Zoo 🥰

We're soo excited to share that two Amur tiger cubs were born on May 23rd! Both cubs – one male and one female – have been successfully bonding in a behind-the-scenes habitat with their mother, Sundari. (Dari for short 🥰) and are doing well. Our expert Animal Care and Health teams will continue to closely monitor mom and cubs over the next several weeks.

[shithowdy]

close kitty encounter on my zoo day!

[seraphica]

Fresh out of the oven! A brand new pair of Amur Tiger cubs at the Minnesota Zoo!

In addition to being adorable, they're genetically important - the first cubs their father has sired. The Minnesota Zoo is the lead coordinator of the AZA's Amur Tiger 'Species Survival Plan' (SSP).

[beardedmrbean]

Wild, you can't usually see the ghosts that the cats attack this well

Minnesota Zoo

[damn-daemon]

Treetop Trail at the Minnesota Zoo is absolutely amazing this time of year ❤

[snototter]

Southern Three-Banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus) 

by Josh More

[figmentjedi]

[twincitiesgeek]

The Minnesota Zoo Treetop Trail Opens New Pathways for Visitors

The Treetop Trail provides a new vantage point for Minnesota Zoo visitors to explore.

Riina Ryynänen Loar The monorail at the Minnesota Zoo closed in 2013 when its operating costs no longer justified its continued use. Ten years later, it has been revived and completely repurposed as an elevated walking trail. I remember the monorail at the Minnesota Zoo from childhood. Though I didn’t ride it often, I vaguely recall watching through the window as the scenery passed by—every…

[biglisbonnews]

Minnesota students compete in a STEM challenge to redesign tapir exhibit Here's the latest Tapir Talk! Elementary, middle, and high school students across Minnesota are competing this week in the Minnesota Zoo's "Zooms STEM Design Challenge," where they are applying STEM skills to solve a real-world problem. This year the task is to design a new exhibit habitat for the endangered Malayan tapir. — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/03/08/minnesota-students-compete-in-a-stem-challenge-to-redesign-tapir-exhibit.html

[maepolzine]

A Night at the Library: MN Zoo Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular 2022

A little photo journal of the MN Zoo Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular (A Night at the Library)

A few years ago I went to my first ever MN Zoo Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular, then COVID happened so we didn’t end up going the two years following that. Well, this year it’s back or rather we went back to it. The theme for this year was: Night at the Libary. So, everything was themed around various types of books you might find. There are more than 5,000 glowing carved pumpkins at this event. So,…

[dark0ta]

Taken 02/21/24

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

YOU GUYS THE ANIMALS AT COMO ZOO ARE CELEBRATING PRIDE MONTH 🏳️‍🌈

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[hclib]

Resident Mountain Lion

With the sad news this week about the death of the cougar travelling through Minneapolis, here is a bit of the story of a much earlier cougar to find itself in Minneapolis. In June 1899, the Minneapolis Tribune reported that the park board had purchased a mountain lion, cinnamon bear, and "various kinds of foxes and tropical birds" to add to its growing zoo at Minnehaha Park. The park board bought the animals from "a stranded showman" for $325. This was the first mountain lion to live at a Minneapolis zoo.

The Minnehaha zoo that awaited the new mountain lion contained everything from moose and elk to alligators and sea lions. Started informally in the early years of the park, the zoo was such a favored attraction among park visitors that park officials continued to add animals. While the deer, moose, and elk could endure the snow and ice outside at Minnehaha Park, most other animals -- including the mountain lion -- were moved to enclosed barns for the winter.

Despite the popularity of the zoo, some questioned its place in Minnehaha Falls and the confined quarters of the animals. When Theodore Wirth took the reins as Superintendent of Parks, he got the park board out of the zoo business. While a few of the animals -- deer, elk, and bears, for instance -- remained in at Minnehaha Park until the 1920s, most of the other animals moved down the road to the new Longfellow Gardens in 1907. R. F. Jones, the owner of Longfellow Gardens, added other cougars to the zoo over the years, and three mountain lion cubs were even born at the zoo in 1926. Longfellow Gardens closed in the 1930s.

Excerpt from the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board Annual Report, 1899. Proceedings and annual reports from the park board are now fully searchable in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.

[transk0vsky]

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