The Cincinnati Zoo Blog

How to Rescue, Rehabilitate and Release a Scarlet Macaw

If you look closely around southeast Ohio, you can spot many different kinds of birds from cardinals to red-tailed hawks. A bird you won’t see in your backyard, however, is the scarlet macaw. This [...]

We removed 5,743 pounds of tires, straws, chairs, and more from the Ohio River bank! (And, had fun doing it!)

Cracked lawn chairs, plastic straws, deflated basketballs, old tires, shredded Styrofoam, and so many other odds and ends litter the banks of the Ohio River. What is one person’s trash, is (in our case) [...]

International Sloth Day 2018

International Sloth Day is Saturday, October 20th! Many are familiar with our two-toed sloth Moe, and visit him year-round at his home in the Discovery Forest. Unfortunately, guests will have to wait until late [...]