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Kali the Sumatran tiger is enjoying her giant popsicle! 🐅 The 11-year-old tiger likes digging her claws into it and licking it for a cool enrichment.
Enrichment comes in many forms, and all of our animals receive daily enrichment. Enrichment is to encourage natural behaviors and provide mental and physical stimulation.
📹: Assistant curator Erin
Pepper the sea lion pup meets the harbor seals! 🦭
Meet Pepper, our spirited sea lion pup who triumphed over a respiratory infection just after birth. Now two months old, she’s thriving—nursing well, growing strong, and enjoying diving and swimming with her mom Eloise. Weighing in at 31 pounds, Pepper is gaining confidence in the water each day, diving deeper and exploring more pools behind the scenes. She’s even met the harbor seal roommates, Saya and Qilak—what a journey it’s been for this brave little one!
Adorable mole rat Potato enjoying snacking on beets! 🥔 Resembling saber-toothed fuzzy potatoes, these rodents use their long incisors to gnaw through the soil, digging elaborate tunnels. Our Damaraland mole rat colony receives a mix of various produce, and yam tends to be a favorite. In the wild, their diet consists mainly of roots, bulbs, tubers, and aloe leaves.
📹: Curator Natalie
These are just a few of the adorable faces you’ll see at Kids’ Zone! 🥰 Blue poison frogs, Solomon Island leaf frogs, and Makara, our prehensile-tailed skink. 🐸
📸: Keeper Lisa
Meet our newest prickly resident, Quillow! Quillow is a female prehensile-tailed porcupine, also known as a coendou. Quillow is celebrating her first birthday with us! 🎉 Keeper Alex made Quillow a special birthday cake with banana, butternut squash, tomatoes, blueberries, topped with browse and hibiscus flowers! 🌺
Quillow lives behind the scenes at Wild Wonders and will soon get to know Nigel, our 12-year-old male prehensile-tailed porcupine. Coendous use their long, prehensile tail, which makes up almost 10% of their body weight, for grasping and hanging onto branches, making them excellent climbers. Happy first birthday, Quillow! 🩷
📹: Assistant curator Maureen
Thank you for the overwhelming love and support you’ve shown as we continue to mourn the loss of Suki. Millions of our guests connected with her and that connection inspired them to care deeply about elephants and to help protect them in the wild.
We’ll continue to celebrate Suki’s life and honor her contribution to her species through our support of elephant conservation in Sumatra. We are an active partner in global efforts to protect Asian and African elephants. Through the Zoo Society’s Dr. Holly Reed Wildlife Conservation Fund, we help support forest rangers in Sumatra who patrol forests for poachers and work to reduce human-elephant conflict by herding wild elephants away from settlements. Asian elephants are listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
To learn more about donating to elephant conservation in honor of Suki, please visit pdza.org/holly-reed. #WorldElephantDay
