Get to Know Your Wild Neighbours! Calling all youth 19 and under! Get outdoors and connect with your neighbors of other species. Head to www.get-to-know.org to submit art, writing, photography, videos, or music celebrating your wild neighbors and you could win some wild prizes! Enter today! And don’t forget to tell your friends and like [...]
Black-footed Ferret Presentation – June 6th at 6:00pm
THURSDAY JUNE 7TH AT 6:00PM A special presentation will be held at the NEW Zoo to honor the RETURN OF THE PRAIRIE BANDIT, an award-winning film about the restoration of the endangered black-footed ferret to the Canadian prairies. Wildlife biologist and Wisconsin native Travis Livieri will be at the zoo on Thursday evening to do a presentation [...]
NEW Zoo Welcomes Baby Bear
NEW Zoo Welcomes Baby Bear! The Northeastern Wisconsin Zoo is happy to announce the arrival of Aldo, a 2 ½ month old North American Black Bear cub! The tiny cub was found injured and alone in the wilds of Oregon. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife contacted the Association of Zoos and Aquariums hoping [...]
A Day in the Life of a Cotton-top Tamarin
Yaaaaaawwnnnnn. The sun is starting to spill in through the entrance of the box I’m sleeping in. Two other tamarins are in here with me, but aren’t awake yet. That means I can have some fun! YOINK! I give an exposed tail a sharp tug, then leap out of the box as quickly as I [...]
Snake Surprise!
by NEW Zoo Intern Adam Pankratz Last October, during the Zoo Boo event, something out of the ordinary happened. A visitor came to us with a small snake in a bucket, saying he knew it wasn’t something that was supposed to be found in his backyard. The snake had an unusual pattern and coloring, making [...]
Giraffe Training
by NEW Zoo Intern, Adam Pankratz Recently, I was given the opportunity for a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the giraffes’ morning routine. Every morning, Hodari and Zuri are weighed, have their hooves and legs cleaned, and are put through training exercises by their zookeepers. In order to do all these things, the NEW Zoo has [...]
Pilot to Donate a Flight from Wyoming to Wisconsin
Transporting Endangered Black-footed Ferrets to New Home Boise, ID – On February 21, 2012, Michael Baum, a LightHawk volunteer pilot from Los Altos, CA will donate a flight in his TBM 700 single engine turboprop to transport two endangered black-footed ferrets, Roger and Ari to a new home. No word on what in-flight snacks [...]
A Day in the Life of a Peacock
As the sun rises, I wake up on my favorite perch at the NEW Zoo. A couple other peacocks and I like to hang out in the trees above the black bear exhibit. Though it surprises a lot of people, we are actually quite capable flyers, in spite of the fact that we boys [...]
A Day in the Life of Issabella, Red-tailed Boa
Sometimes I think that people consider me to have a dull life. I am, after all, quite the sedentary serpent! But, let me tell you, that suits me just fine. A typical day for me includes very little activity, but that is exactly the life we boa constrictors are designed for. In the wild, we [...]
Giraffe Stand Diary: a Thursday Afternoon
It’s been a calm day in the giraffe stand. Hodari and Zuri rest together now on the floor, although I can hear the very vocal Shambe, the African lion, roaring from his exhibit outside. During most of the time I’ve spent working this afternoon giraffe stand shift, Hodari has been chewing his cud. Zuri has [...]
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