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Welcoming Two Cotton-Top Tamarin Babies

Our cotton-top tamarin family recently welcomed two new additions! Twins were born to our matriarch, Luna, overnight on Jan. 2.

Oscar is quite the forager.

Meet the Animals: Striped Skunks

We have some scent-sational Zoo residents to introduce you to: our skunk trio! There’s lots to learn about Oscar, Dexter and DeeDee.

Are You Smarter Than a Coati?

We’re partnering with Florida Tech to better understand carnivore cognition. Our not-so-little coati band is shedding light on this largely understudied group of animals. This is a collaborative effort among several institutions to draw conclusions about how different aspects of animals’ foraging ecology, brain and body size, as well as social ecology predict their flexibility in problem solving. 

A female wrinkled hornbill

Remembering Morticia the Wrinkled Hornbill

We’re deeply saddened to share that our 31-year-old female wrinkled hornbill, Morticia, was compassionately euthanized following a severe decline in her health.

Three bear cubs cuddled up.

Five Rehabilitated Florida Black Bear Cubs Head Home

Let’s recap on the five Florida black bear cubs we recently released!

A woman holds a sea turtle on a beach.

Poppy is Going Home!

We said farewell to longtime Sea Turtle Healing Center patient Poppy as we sent them back to the ocean.

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