Columbus Zoo and Aquarium Columbus Zoo News 2020

I'm not surprised those cats are going to Columbus, given their reputation with raising orphaned cubs. Oakland has been doing a fantastic job with them, they're posted on twitter almost every day it feels like, but they need the space for more injured wildlife now that the cubs are stable.

Sad to hear about the moose :(
 
Zoofan15 said:
An interesting article about the history of Stumpy and her relationship with one of the new calves:

Orphaned manatee calf, Squirrel, bonds with Stubby at Columbus Zoo
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I stopped in to see Squirrel multiple times on my 2-day visit earlier this month. She's a tiny bit more independent than this makes it sound - she especially seems to like going off to roll in circles :) - but she is always, at minimum, in the same half of the tank as Stubby (not Stumpy) and usually up against her. Scampi does her own thing.
 
arastis21 said:
Visited today. Good weather, so lots of animal activity.Other notes included-

1. Polar Bear Anana is denning and possibly pregnant.
2. Survey markers are all over in the rides portion of Adventure Cove near the Zoombezi Bay entrance. Possible ride addition.
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I had assumed Anana was common knowledge to people here and in the polar bear thread, oops!
 
zoomaniac said:
@vogelcommando: Although excellent news I have to ask: At Columbus Zoo or at North Carolina Zoo (as the picture indicates)?
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red river hog said:
This is North Carolina
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No, it's Columbus. The show or whatever the video came from is called "Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina", but the keepers in the video are very clearly wearing Columbus Zoo staff shirts. Additionally, Columbus Zoo holds pangolins while North Carolina Zoo does not.
 
Coelacanth18 said:
No, it's Columbus. The show or whatever the video came from is called "Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina", but the keepers in the video are very clearly wearing Columbus Zoo staff shirts. Additionally, Columbus Zoo holds pangolins while North Carolina Zoo does not.
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Very strange.
 
Not clear to me when that pangolin was born - possibly it was born during production of the show's season, which may have been months ago. I also can't find any formal announcement of the birth from Columbus Zoo or subsequent updates on it.
 
From the zoos Facebook-page :

"Earlier this year in July, the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium received Lake Titicaca frogs, an endangered species and the largest completely aquatic frog. (They can weigh up to 2 lbs.!) Within one week of their arrival, the frogs laid eggs. The Zoo’s Animal Care team decided to hand-rear several of the tadpoles, as many times the adult frogs will consume the eggs or small tadpoles. As part of the hand-rearing process, the tadpoles were closely monitored, kept in clean water and fed algae wafers and small tadpole pellets.
The Zoo’s Shores and Aquarium region currently has seven Lake Titicaca tadpoles. Did you know that Lake Titicaca frogs are not sexually dimorphic (meaning that both male and females look the same)? You can tell them apart based on the fact that the females are usually larger and the male frogs will vocalize/call to attract the females for breeding. Lake Titicaca frogs also have external egg fertilization, which means the male frog releases his sperm at the same time the female frog releases her eggs in an underwater mating behavior called amplexus."
 
4 year old cheetah Ophelia was euthanized yesterday. :( I met her on my tour last month and she had been doing well.

"It is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our beloved cheetah princess, Ophelia. Her care team and Animal Health staff made the very difficult decision to humanely euthanize her on Wednesday.
On June 13, 2019, Ophelia lacerated her Achilles tendon. This sort of injury is very difficult to manage, and even more difficult to resolve. This tendon is vital for extending the ankle, so every time a step is taken, it flexes the joint. An animal like a cheetah that is built to make rapid accelerations puts even more strain on the tendon. Ophelia’s initial injury was repaired in collaboration with a boarded veterinary surgeon at MedVet, and while the repair had been successful for months, it failed on Wednesday, and additional surgical repair was not possible.
Ophelia was born on December 4, 2016 and arrived at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium on February 3, 2017, along with her sisters, Isabelle and Luciana. Ophelia was very special to her care team, as well as our supportive community. In her sweet and eventful life, Ophelia expressed her royal demeanor by purring loudly, hissing at brooms, grooming her sisters and getting her tail brushed by her keepers. She also loved going on walks and purring at her fans on the Heart of Africa boardwalk. Ophelia’s favorite enrichment was whole eggplants, which she enjoyed carrying around her habitat.
One of the most valuable lessons Ophelia taught her care team was resilience. She loved training and continuously showed how smart she was by quickly learning new behaviors like self-injections, voluntary x-rays and shifting between houses in her behind-the-scenes suites. Her care team says she was always one step ahead of them, and when they caught up, she would be waiting with purrs."
 
A Masai giraffe calf was born December 9:

Columbus Zoo welcomes 2020's third Masai giraffe calf

After a devastating breeding season in 2018 in which two calves died, the giraffes at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium have bounced back with three successful births this year.

The zoo welcomed its latest endangered Masai giraffe calf, a nearly two-week-old female named Sammie, on Dec. 9, it announced Tuesday. The calf's mother is Digi, a 9-year-old giraffe.

The other calves are Ralph, a male born June 28 to 10-year old Zuri; and Schaefer, a female, born August 26 to 19-year old Jana. Zoo donors named both calves this week.

A 10-year-old giraffe named Enzi is the father of all three calves.
 
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