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Two black howler monkeys sit side by side on a thick horizontal branch, the one on the left with solid black fur leaning forward over the branch, the one on the right with shaggy golden-tan fur resting on folded limbs, with green leaves overhead and out-of-focus foliage behind them.

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Phoenix Zoo Spent a Month on Latin America

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A young child in a black costume with white gloves stands on a red carpet between two costumed characters in long gowns, one blue and white and one pink, in front of a painted storybook castle backdrop, while an adult in an orange shirt photographs them with a phone beside a Boo at the Zoo character meet and greet sign.

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Nashville Zoo Keeps the Tigers Out Until 8:30

October 5, 2026

Promotional banner for Howl-O-Ween reading HOWL-O-WEEN, OCTOBER 24TH & 25TH and FREE FOR KIDS, in purple and green lettering on an orange sky, with black silhouettes of a goat in a witch's hat on the left and a rooster perched on the back of a horned animal wearing a crown on the right, above a dark grassy hill.

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Kids in Costume Get In Free at Howl-O-Ween

A lioness walks from right to left across short dry red-brown grass in low golden light, with open scrub and bare ground stretching to a flat horizon behind her.

Africa & Middle East

Tsavo’s Six Cats, and the Zoo Money That Is Not Theirs

Three people in navy uniforms and high-visibility vests kneel on the wet concrete floor of a dry dock, working a Cape fur seal into a dark mesh net, with the red hull of a vessel and yellow scaffolding rising behind them and a fourth worker further down the dock.

Africa & Middle East

Cape Fur Seals Trapped in a Dry Dock, All Four Out

Four Cape fur seals swam into a Cape Town dry dock before it ...

A close-up of a flowering desert plant, its stalk carrying clusters of dark red buds with long yellow anthers pushing out of them, a small dark insect on one bud, with a green desert hillside and heavy grey storm clouds out of focus behind.

Events

El Paso Zoo Hosts the Chihuahuan Desert Conference

The Fourth Chihuahuan Desert Conference has its schedule posted, its dates settled and ...

Two SCUBA divers in costume kneel on the gravel bottom of an aquarium exhibit, each holding up a carved jack-o'-lantern, one in a green dinosaur suit and hood and the other in a red and blue suit with a red hood, bubbles rising around them.

Events

Divers in Costume Carve Pumpkins to Open ODDtober

Carving a pumpkin needs a pumpkin and a serrated knife. Carving one at ...

Two people seen from behind, standing on a grassy bank above a wide brown river with day packs on and binoculars raised, looking across at a low far bank of sand, scrub and scattered trees under a pale early morning sky.

Africa & Middle East

Two Teams, 50 Kilometers, One River Counted

Two teams of researchers walked more than 50 kilometers each, on opposite banks ...

A black-backed jackal walks left to right through low green bush at night, lit by a camera trap flash, with fallen pale deadwood and dark trees behind it.

Africa & Middle East

Namibia’s Jackals Are Not Eating the Sheep

Farmers in the Okakarara District Communal Area of central-eastern Namibia blame black-backed jackals ...

An adult elephant stands at a muddy waterhole inside a fenced stockade compound with a very small newborn calf tucked under her belly between her front and back legs, other elephants and a water tank visible behind them.

Africa & Middle East

An Orphan’s Daughter, and Tsavo’s 95th Grandcalf

At dawn on October 2, a wild elephant walked out of Tsavo East ...

Promotional artwork for an animated film, showing a wide-eyed boy character stitched together from patches at center, a shaggy orange monster in purple striped trousers beside him and several smaller cartoon monsters across a green field, with a castle on a rocky crag behind. Lettering reads Monster Mayhem 4D and, above, Are You Ready For Monsters?

Events

Monster Mayhem 4D Opens at The Maritime Aquarium

The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk has added a second film to its 4D ...

An aerial view at dusk of the Downtown Aquarium Houston complex, with a large Ferris wheel lit in bands of pink, green and blue on the left, the aquarium building marked with a large AQUARIUM sign at right, blue-roofed pavilions and palms between them, and a freeway curving past behind.

Events

A Largetooth Sawfish Headlines Houston’s October

Downtown Aquarium Houston has four dated events in October, and the one worth ...

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Events

A Plant Maze Opens at the Virginia Aquarium

The Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center opens Mission Botanica on Saturday, October ...

An Asian elephant with short tusks walks across a bare earth yard beside a pool and rockwork, in front of a large two-story timber pavilion with steep shingled gables and orange and teal paintwork, where about twenty visitors watch from a shaded deck.

Conservation Projects

Cincinnati’s Elephant Trek Wins AZA’s Top Exhibit Award

The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden has won Top Honors in the Association ...

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Zoo News

Phoenix Zoo Spent a Month on Latin America

Nashville Zoo Keeps the Tigers Out Until 8:30

Kids in Costume Get In Free at Howl-O-Ween

Tsavo’s Six Cats, and the Zoo Money That Is Not Theirs

Cape Fur Seals Trapped in a Dry Dock, All Four Out

El Paso Zoo Hosts the Chihuahuan Desert Conference

Divers in Costume Carve Pumpkins to Open ODDtober

Two Teams, 50 Kilometers, One River Counted

Namibia’s Jackals Are Not Eating the Sheep

An Orphan’s Daughter, and Tsavo’s 95th Grandcalf

Monster Mayhem 4D Opens at The Maritime Aquarium

A Largetooth Sawfish Headlines Houston’s October

A Plant Maze Opens at the Virginia Aquarium

Cincinnati’s Elephant Trek Wins AZA’s Top Exhibit Award

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The 50th Calf Going Home to Blackfeet Land

Eleven Finalists for the 17th Go Blue Awards

Oakland Zoo Giraffe Joann Joins the Herd

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Memphis Zoo Breaks Ground on Stingrays at Mangrove Cove

LA Zoo Students Find Elephants Back in Kenya’s Enarau

North Carolina Zoo Passes a Million Volunteer Hours

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