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News about zoo expansions, construction updates and improvements to zoos in North & South America

The giant panda Ping Ping sits against a wooden post at Zoo Atlanta holding a bamboo cane to his mouth with both front paws, a pile of leafy bamboo across his lap.

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Zoo Atlanta’s Panda Grove Opens With a Pool in Each Dayroom

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Two African lionesses on sunlit rockwork in an outdoor zoo habitat, one lying with her front paws over the edge of a boulder and one standing behind her, with a brick building and overhead mesh in the background.

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Three Lions, Two Yards, and Room for Eight

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A capybara stands at the edge of dark, damp ground beside tufts of grass, its coarse reddish-brown coat catching the sun, in an outdoor habitat at the Saint Louis Zoo.

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Two Yards Became One, and a Capybara Moved In

Carved wooden animals on the Birmingham Zoo carousel, including a tall giraffe with a red bridle, a spotted leopard, a zebra, an ostrich and two pale horses, under a lit wooden canopy with species names painted on the boards above.

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Birmingham’s Carousel Comes Back, Endangered Species and All

Architectural rendering of the Tennessee Aquarium's planned animal hospital: a bright treatment room with staff in blue scrubs, overhead surgical lights, teal cabinetry and a glass-walled imaging suite holding a CT scanner.

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A $5 Million Animal Hospital, and the Vets It Will Train

The Tennessee Aquarium is building a $5 million animal hospital inside its River ...

A low dark-roofed building under construction at the Little Rock Zoo, with freshly poured concrete pathways and a covered patio in front of it and a large bare oak in the foreground.

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Little Rock Zoo’s New Habitats Are Built. Now the Slow Part.

The Little Rock Zoo says Project Zoo: Wildly Reimagined has reached its final ...

Two Baltimore Youth Arts apprentices speak to a seated audience on the National Aquarium Harbor Wetland boardwalk, beside a stand holding three illustrated tumbler panels, with the Inner Harbor behind them.

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Baltimore Teenagers Drew the Harbor’s Next 100 Years

There is a new thing to spin at the National Aquarium’s Harbor Wetland, ...

A young girl in a gray hooded sweatshirt holds a spotted toy leopard shark in both hands and studies it closely at a table in the Seattle Aquarium's Discovery Lab.

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The Seattle Aquarium Wants You to Be a Shark Nanny

The Seattle Aquarium is expanding the hands-on programming in its Ocean Pavilion. Four ...

A big-belly seahorse with a long snout and brown-spotted golden body curls in front of a blue and pink background.

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Monterey Bay Aquarium Opens Ocean in Motion November 7

Monterey Bay Aquarium opens Ocean in Motion / La Danza del Mar on ...

The new red-backed bearded saki habitat at Nashville Zoo, a tall mesh enclosure filled with sculpted climbing trees whose branches interlock across the space, over a planted floor and a low rock wall.

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The Trees Are Fake and the Feeders Are Inside Them

Nashville Zoo has put nine red-backed bearded sakis into a new habitat on ...

Around a dozen cownose rays glide through shallow sunlit water over a gravel bottom, seen from just below the surface.

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Stingray Cove Closes Nov. 1 at Sedgwick County Zoo

Stingray Cove closes at the Sedgwick County Zoo on Sunday, November 1, after ...

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Ripley’s Smokies Finishes Its Mixed Reality Library

Walk through the shark tunnel at Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies and you ...

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Hillsborough County Puts $75 Million Into ZooTampa

Hillsborough County has agreed to put $75 million of public money into ZooTampa ...

An open-sided pavilion with a high timber roof, hanging lights and a polished wood deck, looking out through steel posts to forested hills.

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The Oregon Zoo’s Bond Buys Its First Two Roofs

The Oregon Zoo has opened the first two structures paid for by its ...

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Expansions

Zoo Atlanta’s Panda Grove Opens With a Pool in Each Dayroom

Three Lions, Two Yards, and Room for Eight

Two Yards Became One, and a Capybara Moved In

Birmingham’s Carousel Comes Back, Endangered Species and All

A $5 Million Animal Hospital, and the Vets It Will Train

Little Rock Zoo’s New Habitats Are Built. Now the Slow Part.

Baltimore Teenagers Drew the Harbor’s Next 100 Years

The Seattle Aquarium Wants You to Be a Shark Nanny

Monterey Bay Aquarium Opens Ocean in Motion November 7

The Trees Are Fake and the Feeders Are Inside Them

Stingray Cove Closes Nov. 1 at Sedgwick County Zoo

Ripley’s Smokies Finishes Its Mixed Reality Library

Hillsborough County Puts $75 Million Into ZooTampa

The Oregon Zoo’s Bond Buys Its First Two Roofs

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Rescued Gorilla Lulingu Gives Birth in Virunga

A Deep Sea Installation Opens Inside the ARTIS Aquarium

Numbat Downlisted Two Categories on IUCN Red List

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445 Square Kilometers of Congolese Forest, Legally Theirs

Fort Worth Breeds 49 Golden Frogs, First in a Decade

Eighteen Oryx in Virginia, and Why They Matter

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