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Editor: Mary McMillanDesign: Nesnadny + SchwartzContributing Photographers: Sandy Gross, Roger Mastroianni

Cleveland Zoological SocietyChairman: Patrick S. MullinPresident: Robert J. RogersExecutive Director: Elizabeth T. Fowler

Cleveland Metroparks ZooDirector: Steve H. Taylor

Z is published by the Cleveland Zoological Society for members and friends. An annual subscription is included in every membership. Family memberships, which offer free admission to Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, are available at $70 and $90 annually.

Correspondence and address changes: 3900 Wildlife Way, Cleveland, OH 44109. ©2010 Cleveland Zoological Society

How to Reach UsGeneral information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (216) 661.6500

Extensions:Zoo Society Executive Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3342Zoo Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3331Membership. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4421ZooKeepers’ Circle Membership. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3323Adopt an Animal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4440Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3325Corporate Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4420Education Department. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3391Facility Rentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3389Marketing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3338Travel Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4420Visitor Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3344Volunteer/Docent Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4494

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General public: $10 adults; $7 junior (ages 2–11); children under 2 are free.

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Dear Zoo Members and Friends, You’ve seen the dramatic progress on construction for African Elephant Crossing … and you know how close we are to bringing the herd home! We need your help now more than ever.

Make your gift today and give Jo, Moshi and Martika a warm Cleveland hello! You’ll also help ensure a bright future for elephants, meerkats, mole rats and more.

Best of all, when you dig deep for the Zoo, your gift will count 2x. That’s right! Thanks to a challenge from the prestigious Kresge Foundation, your gift will put Cleveland on the fast-track for opening one of the best elephant centers in the nation!

African Elephant Crossing is more than just a great new home for the world’s largest land mammal. It’s a special place for YOU to visit with family and friends. Please join us in making something truly wonderful happen for this community!

Meanwhile, the Zoo is a wonderful place to visit year-round. For those who want to warm up, The RainForest is a constant 80° and is filled with interesting primates, reptiles and a brand-new leaf-cutter ant exhibit. If you prefer cold-weather viewing, many of the Zoo’s animals, including tigers, reindeer, polar bears, seals and sea lions are outside almost every day (even the lions have a heated rock!)

For a list of all our winter and spring events and updates on African Elephant Crossing, please visit ClevelandZooSociety.org or AfricanElephantCrossing.com.

Thank you for joining us!

—eliZaBeth t. fowler, CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

—steVe h. taylor, CLEVELAND METROPARKS ZOO DIRECTOR

AS tHe ZOO’S nOnpROfIt AdvOCAte And pARtneR, tHe CLeveLAnd ZOOLOGICAL SOCIety IS COMMItted tO:

• Raising awareness of the Zoo as a community priority

• Improving all aspects of the Zoo, from exhibits to programs to daily operations

• Giving visitors, members and donors great value for their investment

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zfeatures WHAt’S ZOO? 4 The latest in Zoo news

SOMetHInG fISHy IS GOInG On 8 Bringing the Great Barrier Reef to Cleveland

JUSt HeRd It 12 Progress report for African Elephant Crossing

tHAnkS tO yOU 15 Recognition for corporate, foundation and capital campaign donors

tHe bIG CReek deAL6 Cleaning up Big Creek and what you can do to help

SUMMeR WRAp Up19 Photo Safari monthly winners and more!

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HELLOS & GOODByESFrom mighty tiny to just plain mighty, the Zoo’s animals are endlessly fascinating. This fall the Zoo welcomed back several (thousand) old friends and brought in some new neigh-bors. The Animal Care, Conservation Educa-tion, and Maintenance division worked hard developing and building new exhibits for our returning leaf-cutter ants, refurbishing inte-rior holding for the Amur tigers, and wrap-ping up the final details on African Elephant Crossing. You’ll have to wait till May 2011 to experience the full wonder of African Ele-phant Crossing, but the rest of the Zoo is open all winter for enjoying family outings and making lifelong memories.

Not your father’s ant-farm.When we say the Zoo has 3,000 animals rep-resenting 600 species, we’re not counting every single individual. The leaf-cutter ant colony counts as one “animal” even though there are several thousand ants crawling around in the colony. In the wild, colonies of up to several million ants have been documented. Colonies are ruled by a single female queen and all the other ants are divided up into four distinct castes: minims, the smallest workers; minors, the first line of defense for the colony; mediae, foragers that cut leaves and bring fragments

back to the nest; and majors, the largest ants that act as soldiers, defending the nest from in-truders. Ants are not the only living organism in these colonies—the leaves that the ants cut are carried back to the colony to feed a fungus the ants depend on to survive. The fungus is cultivated by the adults to feed larvae, and the adult ants feed on sap from the cut leaves. The fungus needs the ants to stay alive, and the lar-vae need the fungus to stay alive. Stop by the new leaf-cutter ant exhibit in The RainForest to see this remarkable partnership in action.

Sweet-tooth Sweethearts. Another rain forest denizen that relies on trees is the white-fronted marmoset. Like their cousins the tamarins, marmosets are small primates found in the rain forests of South America. As one of the few species that feed on tree sap (think maple syrup for primates), marmosets have specially shaped teeth to carve holes in the trunks of trees. These teeth are important as trees have devel-oped their own defense against being chewed: a thick layer of bark through which the marmosets must chew. Once a hole is cre-ated and sap is flowing, the tree tries to stop the flow by producing gums, resins and latex

Did you Know?the word “arctic” come from the Greek work “arktos” (bear) and refers to arcturus, the great bear star and the third bright-est star in the northern night sky. the opposite of arctic is (you guessed it) anti-arktos, “without bear” or more commonly antarctic. the world’s largest land predators, polar bears, live in the arctic and are never found with penguins, which are only found in the southern hemisphere. polar bears are soli-tary, unsocial hunters capable of consuming 15–50 lbs. of food in one meal. they are quick and strong enough to pry food from kelp stems, knock out a beluga whale, snatch lemming from the grass or flip a 400 lb. seal into the air. and, of course, they are excellent swimmers.

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Give the Gift of Membership! We can hardly be-lieve it either, but the holidays will quickly be upon us. As you make your list and check it twice, why not consider giving the gift of a Zoo membership? As a current member, you already know all of the great benefits that come along with being a member. Stop scratching your head and fretting over that perfect gift, be-cause you already know what it is!

If you have a child in school, here’s a great way you can help your child, your school and your Zoo—all for fRee! Ask your child’s teacher to plan a Zoo field trip. Cuyahoga County schools are offered free admission to Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and may choose from an array of free educational programs to enhance the learning opportunities. For schools with tight budgets, we even offer free roundtrip transportation on the ZooBus! Contact the Zoo’s Conservation Education department at (216) 635.3308 or visit clem-etzoo.com for more information.

Wild Sleep-over. Night Tracks is the Zoo’s overnight program featuring Wolf Wil-derness. The program gives participants the opportunity to become scientists for a night by collecting data on wildlife and habitats. Participants have an opportu-nity to use compasses, maps, radio te-lemetry equipment and night vision binoculars. New this winter: Programs designed especially for Boy and Girl

Scout troops. All participants must be at least 6 years old; to register call (216) 635.3391 or visit clemetzoo.com.

Coming in 2011 – ElephanTuesdays! Proving once again that membership has its privileges, next May and June we will be hosting five member-only evenings featuring of our brand new exhibit, African elephant Crossing. FREE tickets are re-quired and will be available beginning March 1, 2011 at ClevelandZooSociety.org.

be AWARe! Zoo reciprocity is always changing! Important changes to our reciprocal program will be occurring in 2011 so make sure to always check ClevelandZooSociety.org/Join for our most up-to-date Reciprocal Zoos List before vis-iting another zoo. Stay tuned for more informa-tion soon!

plan your visit. Make sure you have your mem-bership cards and a photo ID for quick and easy entry. If you’ve misplaced your cards, please call the Membership Office to order your re-placements today!

—Steve Aspacher, Manager of Member and Donor Services

Membership Mattersto seal up the hole. Marmosets must return to the holes and re-move the gum (which they also eat) to restart the flow of sap. You can find the marmosets next to the waterfall in The RainForest.

It’s a girl! The Eastern black rhino family at your Zoo welcomed a new female calf in August, the fourth calf born to mom Inge, and second offspring of dad Jimma. The baby rhino is a significant addition to the zoo population as there are only 31 female and 36 male Eastern black rhi-nos in zoos in North America and they are considered highly endangered in the wild. There have been only two other Eastern black rhino babies born in the U.S. this year. Since her arrival in 1997 from the Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa, Inge has given birth to four calves at the Zoo, all female. Because Inge was born in the wild, her genes are very important to the overall zoo population and the Association of Zoos & Aquariums’ Species Survival Program. The baby was named “Johari,” (“Jewel” in Swa-hili) the winning entry in the Zoo and Channel 3’s Name the Baby contest.

—Joe Yachanin, Marketing & PR Specialist

— Mary McMillan, Director of Finance & Operations

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That’s right. Big Creek is an impressive

yet often overlooked river that courses

through Cleveland Metroparks Zoo

and Brookside Reservation. It disappears into

giant culverts directly beneath the Zoo’s

African Savanna, finding daylight again be-

hind the Rainforest.

You can view the Big Creek river gorge from the

bridge that connects the African Savanna and

northern trek. Shale outcroppings in these an-

cient cliffs have revealed interesting plant and

animal fossils from prehistoric times. In the

summer, butterflies and dragonflies dart among

wildflowers along the river’s banks. Resident

king fishers swoop down for the catch of the

day, a hopeful sign that the waterway is recov-

ering from its industrialized past.

Big Creek is among the largest and most urban-

ized tributaries of the Cuyahoga River, draining 38

square miles of land from densely built neighbor-

hoods like Old Brooklyn, Parma, Parma Heights,

Middleburg Heights, Brook Park, North Royalton,

Linndale and Cleveland. Where does all the water

go? Big Creek joins the Cuyahoga River just south

of Harvard Road near the Cleveland Metroparks

Canal Way Reservation, then flows north and

empties into Lake Erie.

Since 1995, the Zoo and community volunteers

have been active in stream stewardship. The first

Big Creek Cleanup was the idea of one of the Zoo’s

keepers, Tim Pappas. Today, the Zoo’s Resource

Management Committee (the “Green Team”)

continues the tradition. Friends of Big Creek, a

community-based greenway advocacy and wa-

tershed stewardship group, local community

members, and Zoo Volunteers join the effort.

Each year, Big Creek Cleanup volunteers re-

trieve scrap metal, plastics, glass, and other

debris from Big Creek. These materials are re-cycled or properly disposed of to keep them out of our watershed. Nancy Hughes, the Zoo’s Compost & Recycling Coordinator, reported that as a result of the 2010 clean up in August, some 660 pounds of scrap metal were re-claimed and recycled by 40 enthusiastic volun-teers. Everyone lives downstream of something, so all communities have a stake in rallying to clean up portions of their region’s watershed.

In spring 2009, the City of Brooklyn endorsed the Lower Big Creek Valley Greenway Rede-velopment & Restoration Plan. Thanks to an Ohio Coastal Management Assistance Grant, Friends of Big Creek joined forces to com-plete the Big Creek Balanced Growth Initia-tive earlier this year. This community-driven plan will assist in balancing economic growth with conservation of critical resources in the Big Creek Watershed.

For this collective vision to take shape, big plans for Big Creek must be followed by big actions. Cleveland Metroparks is committed to partner-ing with organizations that will benefit the Big Creek watershed and lead to more livable, workable communities. To learn more about Big Creek and regional watershed plans, visit www.fobc.org and www.crcpo.org

tHe next tIMe yOU MeAndeR tHROUGH tHe ZOO’S AfRICAn SAvAnnA, StOp fOR A MOMent tO LISten fOR tHe COOL RUSH Of RIveR WAteR beneAtH yOUR feet. “WAIt…RUSHInG RIveR WAteR…At tHe ZOO?”

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A Bit o’ Big Creek History: Some of the area’s oldest parkland is located within the Big Creek watershed. The Zoo was founded in 1882 at Wade Oval in University Circle and relocated to what was then known as Brookside Park between 1905 and 1916. For more than a decade prior to the establishment of the park system in 1917, there was a vision for Cleveland’s “Emerald Necklace.” Today, portions of Big Creek f low through what are now Cleveland Metroparks’ Big Creek and Brookside Reservations. According to Richard Kerber, Cleveland Metroparks Director of Planning, Design and Natural Resources, the “dou-ble barrel” culvert under the Fulton Road bridge was constructed in 1938, and the “triple barrel” culvert beneath the Zoo dates to 1950. Stretches of Big Creek were also rerouted during the construction of Interstate-71 during the 1960’s. Big Creek, like many urban rivers, is subject to recurrent flooding due to development in the watershed.

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local streams? Learn about the watershed in which you live and work.

Don’t dump toxic waste like motor oil and household chemicals down storm drains—contact your city ser-vice department to inquire about hazardous waste collection events.

Join a stream cleanup event or organize one in your neighborhood.

Plant trees and native plants in your yard.

Install a rain garden or rain barrel to decrease your home’s runoff.

Appreciate the Grow no Mow areas at Cleveland Metroparks—they help slow storm surges and pro-vide wildlife habitat!

Dispose of waste properly and recycle what you can.

Attend the Zoo’s America Recycles Day November 14 and learn more!

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Individual species and entire ecosystems depend on diversity and cooperation to remain healthy and growing. African Elephant Crossing will hit home the hopeful message that humans and wildlife alike can thrive when there is cooperation and sharing of resources.

Our diverse population of species for African Elephant Crossing brings together many animals found in southern Africa, fascinating species that are the African elephant’s partners in the wild and in our new exhibit. Like their larger pachyderm pals, these species exhibit remarkable cooperative behaviors that ensure their survival as a social group, as a species and as part of a larger ecosystem.

Meerkats (or suricates), are not a cat at all, but a member of the mongoose family. Meerkats live in large underground tunnel networks in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana and South Africa. These diurnal mammals are very social, living in related groups of 20–30 individuals that form a colony called a “mob,” “gang” or “clan.” Meerkats eat primarily insects, but also lizards, snakes, scorpions, spiders, plants, eggs, small mammals and, more rarely, small birds. Cooperation is the name of the game for meerkats. Individual animals stand sentry while the clan forages or plays nearby. At the first sign of danger, the sentry gives a warning bark, and the others run to the safety of the many bolt holes spread across their territory. The sentry meerkat is the first to reappear, check for danger and give the “all clear” for the rest of the colony to emerge.

What behaves like an insect, but is warm-blooded and looks like something out of a science fiction movie? Meet the mole rat! These fascinating creatures live their entire lives below ground. Much like a colony of ants, they live in a series of underground tunnels, and each tunnel has a function, such as kitchen, bedroom and even a separate latrine. Mole rats are sensitive to vibration and sound, but do not see at all. They are in constant motion cleaning, gathering food, and, just like an insect, tending a Queen who is the only female who gives birth.

Golden weavers are small, seed-eating birds related to finches. One of the several species of weavers, golden weavers get their name from their elaborately woven nests and from their golden-yellow hue. The nests vary in size, shape, material used and construction techniques and may include fine leaf-fibers, grass and twigs. Weavers are gregarious birds, building their nests together, often several to a branch. Usually the male birds weave the nests and use them as a form of display to lure prospective females.

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Please give today and help your Zoo and Northeast Ohio shine!

Female elephants are amazing mothers, sisters and aunts, well known for the tender, collective care they give to their young. Adult females in matriarchal herds do ev-

erything from protecting newborn calves to correct-ing juvenile and adolescent behavior.

Elephants form small family groups consisting of an older matriarch and several generations of relatives. Interrelated family groups may range over a broad area, but will frequently come together —and recognize each other—for a

“meet and greet” at common watering holes and feeding areas. After males mature, they leave the herd and from then on will only join a herd briefly to mate.

Elephant cows usually give birth to one calf every two to four years, and, at 22 months per pregnancy, have the longest term of any mammal. Most elephant behavior is learned, so babies and juveniles stay close to mom for many years to learn the ropes. In the instance of an orphaned calf, one of the family’s other females will take over and the care of the calf will be shared among the herd.

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how can yOU hElp?o Help us bring the herd home by adding a gift to African

elephant Crossing when you renew your membership OR Adopt an Animal.

o Donate online at ClevelandZooSociety.org—it’s quick, it’s easy, and it’s important to the Zoo!

o Make a gift at the African elephant Crossing Donation Station conveniently located in the exhibit hall near the front gate.

o Pick up an African elephant Crossing brochure during a Zoo visit and mail in your gift TODAY!

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When it is cold and snowy outside, warm up your family by coming to the Zoo. That’s right, you can enjoy an aquatic adventure right here in your own backyard. The Zoo’s Primate Cat & Aquatics (PC&A) building has nearly three dozen aquatics displays of salt and freshwater life including sharks, piranhas, giant Pacific octopus and living coral. “The tanks are a fascinating way to see a large number of readily visible animals and to watch their interactions with other species and their shared environ-ment,” said Stan Searles, the Zoo’s Curator of Birds & Aquatics.

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If you would like to bone up on your ichthyology (the study of fish) the Zoo’s tanks are a great resource. “The schools of smaller fish comprise socially complete groups that display courtship as well as other behaviors. You can also see inter-species cooperation, such as that between the clown fish and the sea anemone,” said Searles.

The Zoo’s maintenance and animal care staff recently completed an upgrade to the 3,600 gallon Great Barrier Reef tank at PC&A. After months of hard work (and lots of PVC pipe) the new tank is on display, stocked with fish and coral representative of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, such as black and white clown fish, trigger fish and cobalt blue mor-pho tangs, all sustainably collected and certi-fied by the Marine Advisory Council.

There are actually twenty-eight species of clown fish found throughout the Indian and Pacific oceans. Another tank at PC&A features orange and white clown fish. These lively and colorful fish live in small groups among sea anem-ones, flesh-eating inver-tebrates that look like plants. Very few f ish species can co-exist with the anemones and the relationship is mutually beneficial. The clown fish benefit the anemo-nes by eating the anem-ones’ lef tovers and circulating the water. In return, the anemones’ venomous tentacles pro-tect the clown fish from attack by other fish.

Another favorite at PC&A is the giant Pacific octopus, which is not a fish but an invertebrate. Experts at camouflage, they can smooth out and be a uniform color when on rock, and be-come bumpy and blotchy in seaweed. Octopi have no bones, allowing them to squeeze into tiny places, sometimes only a few centimeters wide. The size of its beak, the only rigid part of the body, determines where it can fit. They are solitary animals, and interact with their own kind only to mate. They eat mainly shrimp, clams, lobsters, and fish, but have been known to attack and eat sharks as well as birds. They range throughout the temperate waters of the Pacific, from southern California to Alaska, west to the Aleutian Islands and Japan.

Octopi are considered the most intelligent of all the invertebrates. Keepers give the octopus enrichment items such as puzzle feeders and lidded jars to solve, the reward being a tasty sea-food dinner. The octopus uses taste buds in the sucker cups on its arms to investigate this “new” item in their environment. The ability to solve these puzzles varies from octopus to octopus. Some can open the jars quite easily and some are better at the feeder puzzles. Look for the mounted prey puzzle near the octopus tank the next time you are at PC&A and see if you can solve it just like the octopus.

One of PC&A’s most colorful tanks features African cichlids. Worldwide, there are more than 1,300 species of this freshwater swimmer that come in a wide range of shapes and colors. African cichlids are native to three lakes in Af-rica: Lake Malawi, Lake Tanganyika, and Lake

Victoria. African cich-lids are predatory and extremely territorial, guarding their territory and behaving aggres-sively towards other fish. They are very hardy fish, which has helped them survive introduction into new environments and geographic locations.

However, environmental factors can impact cichlid populations. Introduced species such as Nile perch and water hyacinth, along with deforestation and overf ishing, have wiped out or drastically reduced many of the Lake Victoria species.

About two-thirds of the lake’s cichlids (approxi-mately 300 species), especially bottom feeders, are endangered or extinct. Some survivors have adapted by becoming smaller or hybridizing with other species.

The Zoo has more than 1,000 fish representing 134 species. You can find exhibits in Primate Cat & Aquatics, The RainForest and Wolf Wilderness. Since about 70% of our planet is covered by water, conserving, understanding and protecting this vast resource and all the life that lives within it is important to all of us.

—Mary McMillan, Director of Finance & Operations

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Fish are cold-blooded, aquatic animals that have scales, gills and fins. There are more species of fish than all the species

of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals combined. The 25,000 known species of fish are divided into three main groups: jawless, carti-laginous and bony fish. Lacking both jaws and scales, the jawless fish date back some 500 mil-lion years and today only hagfish and lampreys remain. Cartilaginous fish, such as sharks, de-veloped about 100 million years after the jawless fish, have skeletons made up of cartilage instead of bone and their jaws usually contain hard, sharp teeth. Bony fish appeared at the same time as cartilaginous fish and are the largest group, with about 20,000 species. The world’s largest fish is the whale shark which can reach fifty feet in length while the smallest fish is the Philippine goby that is less than 1/3 of an inch when fully grown.

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Adopt an elephant for $75, and your gift package includes:• Super cool “ZooParent” collectible key chain• Personalized adoption certificate• Color photo of an elephant • Fun fact sheet all about elephants• A collectible plush toy• Invitation to ZooFriends’ Night 2011 — a fun

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It wasn’t just the Rainforest that was hot and steamy this summer. the entire Zoo provided a sizzling good time for families from all over northeast Ohio and across the country. Children of all ages were amazed by 14 animatronic dinosaurs around Waterfowl Lake, the young at heart learned fascinating facts about number 2 at the Scoop on poop and more than 6,000 guests danced the night away during twilight at the Zoo.

1 The 33rd annual ZippityZooDoo proved yet again that the Zoo is a wonderful setting for a party. More than 500 guests enjoyed a fabulous sit-down dinner catered by Aramark and bid on spectacular auction items, all in support of the Zoo Society’s mission and programming.

2 ZooFriends’ Night welcomed Adopt an Animal parents and Corporate Member employees for a night of their own at the Zoo to meet and greet the keepers, make a craft, visit their favorite exhibits or just enjoy a family evening adventure.

3 Twilight at the Zoo rocked the park on August 6. Special thanks this year to The OPAL Group for developing a eTicketing system that helped not only to speed entrance on the night of the party but also to reduce paper, postage and lost tickets. 16 bands and 6,000+ fans made this a memorable night!

4 Special one day events such as Creature Comforts, Senior Safari, International Plant Conservation Day and Red, White & Zoo provided visitors with a different take on a standard Zoo visit by highlighting the Zoo’s conservation, enrichment and education programming.

5 Members, guests and staff alike were excited to see the Fulton Road Bridge re-open, providing increased access to the Zoo and decreased construction around the Zoo.

6 Several high-profile animals welcomed new arrivals including the Zoo’s four-time mom, African black rhino Inge. Other notable births included a bontebok, red-ruffed lemur, Goodfellow’s tree kangaroo, golden lion tamarin, and zebra!

7 If you saw some odd Zoo uniforms this summer, you were probably here on one of our Zoo Spirit days—staff “amended” their outfits for Pirates & Princesses, 60’s Day and Military Appreciation day.

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