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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 [...]

Getting Social for Animal Well-being Over Winter

Around the Zoo, social interaction means a lot more than posting updates to Facebook. Hands-on, in-person socialization is crucial to the well-being of our ambassador animals. From spring through fall, you see animal handlers [...]

Wild Days: What Does the Zoo’s Wild Encounters Team Do?

If you’ve been to the Zoo in recent years you’ve probably had an encounter of the wild kind. Maybe you’ve rounded a corner to find a Zoo team member holding a big ball python, [...]