Tag: Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
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Colorado Supreme Court rejects ‘personhood’ for elephants at Colorado Springs’ Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court followed in the footsteps of its counterparts on Tuesday and rejected the idea that an animal rights organization could petition for the release of five captive elephants in Colorado Springs. The Washington, D.C.-based Nonhuman Rights Project has unsuccessfully filed suit in multiple…
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Acrobatic Broadway stars: Meet the white-cheeked gibbons at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
That’s not a car alarm. Tis the symphonic sounds of two little white-cheeked gibbons who are super stoked about going outside at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Every morning, as their keepers prepare their outdoor exhibit for the day, 39-year-old Debbie and 34-year-old Tanh Linh sing a song of unbearable ecstasy as they impatiently wait. These two…
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Colorado wildlife museum offers almost 650 specimens
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On the fourth floor of the Osborne Center for Science and Engineering lurks a wild kingdom. Only this wild kingdom at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is no longer so wild. Its inhabitants are rather dead. And stuffed. The eyes of the long-stuffed…
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Lion born at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo killed in Alabama
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save BIRMINGHAM, Ala. • A female lion born at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs was fatally injured while being introduced to a newly acquired male companion at the Birmingham Zoo, officials said Tuesday. Akili, who was born in 2005 and had been at the Birmingham Zoo…
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Lovers of sunshine, brushing and humans: Meet the dairy goats at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Meet “The Cheese Girls,” the domestic dairy goats of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. (Video by Skyler Ballard) { “@context”: “https://schema.org”, “@type”: “VideoObject”, “name”: “Who’s Who at the Zoo | Goats”, “description”: “Meet “The Cheese Girls,” the domestic dairy goats of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. (Video…
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Cheyenne Mountain Zoo earns rare ‘clean’ report of inspection
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo received a rare clean report of inspection from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, joining just three organizations do so so in the 50-year history of accreditation, zoo officials announced. Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers speaks at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo…
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Gentle giants: Meet the giraffes at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Meet the giraffes at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. (Video by Skyler Ballard) { “@context”: “https://schema.org”, “@type”: “VideoObject”, “name”: “Who’s Who at the Zoo | Giraffes”, “description”: “Meet the giraffes at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. (Video by Skyler Ballard)”, “thumbnailUrl”: “https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/denvergazette.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/c/49/c49dd907-ce5e-5546-94b0-465afdf40129/60fcf797bcf82.image.jpg?resize=1396%2C785”, “uploadDate”: “2021-07-24T19:30:00-06:00”, “contentUrl”: “https://cdn.field59.com/GAZETTE/64777b8da36302be0f021598038fced40ab661eb_fl9-360p.mp4” }…
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Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, Children’s Hospital Colorado celebrate giraffe’s second birthday
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Viv, the ‘firecracker’ giraffe that leap-frogged over her mother’s back just six hours after she was born, turned two on Friday. Nobody forgot her birthday. Dozens turned out to the birthday party Cheyenne Mountain Zoo…
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Cheyenne Mountain Zoo welcome twin lemur pups to new exhibit
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save First time lemur-mom, Allagash, surprised zookeepers at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo early Sunday, July 11, 2021, when they discovered the expecting lemur had given birth to not one, but two lemur pups, according to a…
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Keeping Mother’s Day wild: How Cheyenne Mountain Zoo breeds and cares for moms and babies
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A look into how Cheyenne Mountain Zoo breeds and cares for moms and babies. (Video by Skyler Ballard) { “@context”: “https://schema.org”, “@type”: “VideoObject”, “name”: “LIFE | How Cheyenne Mountain Zoo cares for moms and babies”, “description”: “A look into how Cheyenne Mountain Zoo breeds and…