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Can Reindeer Actually Fly? Find Out From our Wild Encounters Team during PNC Festival of Lights

The spooky days of HallZooween are now over, but fun holiday celebrating at the Zoo is nowhere near finished. Just two weeks after we roll away the last pumpkin, the Cincinnati Zoo was ready [...]

Cincinnati Zoo Keepers Sent to Madagascar to Help Rescue Thousands of Tortoises

Two keepers from the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, Melanie Evans and Paul Reinhart, arrived in a remote part of the remote island of Madagascar last week to help save the more than 10,000 [...]

Keeper’s Tribute to a Turtle

Earlier this week, the zoo lost one of its iconic animals. Our large alligator snapping turtle housed at Manatee Springs, Capone, passed away Tuesday evening. As his keepers, one of our favorite things to [...]