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Colorado Springs is home to America’s mountain Zoo, voted #3 Best Zoo in North America by USA TODAY's 10Best Readers' Choice Awards in 2022. Located at 6,714+ feet above sea level, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo offers breathtaking views of the city and natural mountainside. Go at , thanks to the unique design of the Zoo’s animal habitats. Our staff is committed to helping guests f

orm personal connections with our animals that inspire them to protect wildlife and wild places. Hand-feed one of the largest reticulated giraffe herds in the world, watch grizzlies swim with trout, hop next to red-necked wallabies, waddle alongside African penguins, and get hands on with some of the Zoo’s smaller residents in The Loft. Advance e-tickets are required. Please reserve your tickets at cmzoo.org/visit. Every visit to CMZoo is conservation in action. Our guests have raised more than $4 million dollars for frontline conservation partners around the world, through our Quarters for Conservation program, established in 2008. 75¢ from every admission goes to Quarters for Conservation.

Happy from gorgeous Adira!
01/04/2025

Happy from gorgeous Adira!

Heads up: Contagious yawn in progress.
01/04/2025

Heads up: Contagious yawn in progress.

Kick off the New Year by bringing your pup to Dog Days at the Zoo! New dates are available at cmzoo.org/dogdays.Fri., Ja...
01/03/2025

Kick off the New Year by bringing your pup to Dog Days at the Zoo! New dates are available at cmzoo.org/dogdays.

Fri., Jan. 10
Wed., Jan 29
Fri., Feb. 14
Tues., Feb. 25

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Purchase a dog ticket along with your family’s human tickets, and Fido can experience many of the sights, sounds and smells that make the Zoo so special (minus some restricted areas). Dog tickets are limited and typically sell out in advance. Pro tip: choose your dog's ticket time first, then get human tickets to match! Learn more and get Dog Days tickets here: www.cmzoo.org/DogDays.

This opportunity open to well-behaved dogs. Each dog must be connected by its leash to a designated adult. Dogs must remain under their designated human’s control and not behave in an aggressive or disruptive manner. Excessive agitation of Zoo animals, guests or visiting dogs because of barking or other behavior may result in the party being asked to leave the Zoo without a refund.

The Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) recognized Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s collaborative palm oil conservation wo...
01/03/2025

The Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) recognized Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s collaborative palm oil conservation work at the RSPO annual conference in Bangkok last month.

PalmOil Scan, a global mobile app that empowers consumers to choose companies that commit to using sustainable palm oil, won the RSPO Innovation Award.

The award acknowledges the work of World Association of Zoos and Aquariums and its members, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, Chester Zoo, Auckland Zoo and Zoos South Australia, in developing the PalmOil Scan app.

Read more: https://www.cmzoo.org/news/archive/conservation-brief/

The next time you visit Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, you could see some changes to your admissions process.Zoo members and gue...
01/02/2025

The next time you visit Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, you could see some changes to your admissions process.

Zoo members and guests should watch for directional and instructional signs that will be in place when we make the shift from our former admissions process to our new temporary process, tentatively scheduled for early January.

These changes are necessary to proceed to the next phase of construction, making way for an incredible new admissions experience, new giraffe barn, expanded giraffe yard and more.

Follow this three-step guide to the new admissions process. Read more here: https://www.cmzoo.org/news/archive/new-year-new-zoo-admissions-process/

Looking back at 2024, and feeling grateful for finishing some exciting renovations. The historic 1926 Allan Herschel car...
12/31/2024

Looking back at 2024, and feeling grateful for finishing some exciting renovations. The historic 1926 Allan Herschel carousel at CMZoo moved to a new location between Grizzly Grill and Lodge at Moose Lake. After being safely stored away in July 2023, the carousel was reassembled in just three days, and work began on constructing a new building to house it. The new location offers natural shade, space for visitors to line up, and a beautiful native plant display. The carousel has also received some TLC, including repairs and paint touch-ups on the horses, and the carousel organ has been refurbished.

We also completed renovations in Rocky Mountain Wild! Guests now have great views of grizzly bears Emmett and Digger while walking along a beautifully redesigned pathway that winds through native plants and trees. The addition of a mud pit, an expanded yard, new dens and more spaces to dig ensures that Emmett and Digger have plenty of ways to engage with their environment. The renovation also included the addition of raccoon brothers Baker, Baldwin and Benton, as well as two new slides.

12/31/2024

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is thrilled to announce the arrival of a New Year's baby: a Hoffmann's two-toed sloth. Some call sloth babies ‘pups,’ ‘infants,’ or even ‘slow-bies.’ Everyone can agree to call this wee one ‘adorable.’ With its dark brown eyes and a perfect pinkish-brown furless face, its cuteness is out of this world.

The baby, born on Dec. 18, seems strong, and has been learning to traverse Mom’s tummy. While its mom, Aysan, hangs upside down, her baby sprawls right-side-up on her belly, with its four long limbs wrapped around her torso.

“I love the way it lifts its head out of her chest fur and slowly looks around, just kind of taking it all in,” Amber Callen-Ward, lead keeper in Scutes Family Gallery, says. “Aysan has been a great first-time mom, grooming the baby by licking its face, which is so sweet. She and the baby have been bonding well. The baby is nursing, clinging to her and taking little bites of solid foods we offer.”

The two-week-old sloth is already trying pieces of plantain, romaine lettuce, zucchini and cucumber, but gets its main source of nutrients from nursing.

9-year-old Aysan's care team knew she was pregnant. Thanks to their trusting relationship with Aysan, and Aysan’s voluntary participation in her own health care, they had been monitoring the baby's development via ultrasounds and x-rays for the past few months.

Aysan moved to CMZoo on a breeding recommendation by the Hoffmann’s Two-Toed Sloth Species Survival Plan, with Bosco, the Zoo’s long-time male sloth, in June 2023. Sloth gestation typically lasts 11 to 12 months, so some things can happen quickly for sloths!

Bosco, a 32-year-old male Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth, became a second-time dad with this baby’s arrival. His first daughter, 5-year-old Bean, lives in The Loft at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Bean and Bosco are visible to guests who might need to process this baby excitement with a sloth visit right away.

While mom and baby bond for the first month or so, they’ll be behind the scenes in Scutes Family Gallery. Once they are visible to guests, CMZoo will share that news. The baby’s s*x has not been identified, and there are no plans for a name yet. Stay tuned to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s social media channels for sloth pup-dates!

Spending time outdoors is a proven method for combatting stress, anxiety or depression – even if it’s just for 15 minute...
12/31/2024

Spending time outdoors is a proven method for combatting stress, anxiety or depression – even if it’s just for 15 minutes.

Our partners at Children’s Hospital Colorado say helping kids stay active, despite colder temperatures and shorter days, has countless mental and physical health benefits.

For those who might not know where to start, scheduled group activities can allow children to experience a wide range of programming while they fine-tune what really interests them. Outdoor School at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is a year-round program with offerings for all ages. In January and February, middle- and high-school aged programs focus on endangered species wild reintroduction methods and animal tracking.

Read more: https://www.cmzoo.org/news/archive/outdoor-school-offers-unique-winter-opportunities-to-connect-with-nature/

Looking back at 2024, and feeling grateful for the important milestones many of our conservation projects achieved. We c...
12/30/2024

Looking back at 2024, and feeling grateful for the important milestones many of our conservation projects achieved. We celebrated our guests and members for raising over $5 million through our Quarters for Conservation (Q4C) program - just by visiting the Zoo! Every visit to the Zoo is conservation in action, because every admission raises 75¢ for animal like Amur tigers, African elephants, Panamanian frogs, giraffe, black-footed ferrets, orangutans and Wyoming toads. We are proud to support our local and global conservation field projects and partners, like Tsavo Trust, PARC, GCF, WCS and others, with Q4C funding raised through admissions and memberships.

CMZoo and it's members, visitors and donors, celebrated another conservation milestone. In mid-September, the Zoo surpassed $1 million donated to its African elephant and black rhino conservation partner, Tsavo Trust, since establishing the partnership in 2016.

Tsavo Trust, founded in 2012, worked to protect the last of the ‘Super Tuskers’ – African elephants with tusks so large they nearly scraped the ground. It was estimated that only 25 Super Tuskers remained, with the majority residing in Tsavo National Park in Kenya, where Tsavo Trust is based. Over the years, Tsavo Trust has continued to protect African elephants, including Super Tuskers, Eastern black rhinos, and more.

Every year, we are thankful for the incredible community of Zoo supporters and friends who give to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo...
12/30/2024

Every year, we are thankful for the incredible community of Zoo supporters and friends who give to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo's Annual Fund. With your year-end gift, you're helping guests connect with CMZoo animals and save endangered species in Colorado and around the world.

CMZoo is one of the only AZA-accredited nonprofit zoos that doesn't receive any tax support, so every dollar makes a difference for conservation, education and animal care.

Read more about our exciting year and make your year-end contribution at cmzoo.org/annualfund.

End the year on a bright note, join us for the final nights of Electric Safari!Through Jan. 1, celebrate the season with...
12/29/2024

End the year on a bright note, join us for the final nights of Electric Safari!

Through Jan. 1, celebrate the season with your loved ones at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo's Electric Safari — recently ranked Second Best Zoo Lights in North America, in USA TODAY's 10Best Reader's Choice Awards. Tickets are available at cmzoo.org/electric.

Explore our mountainside winter wonderland nightly from tonight through Wed., Jan.1, 2025 – except Christmas Eve. Electric Safari is free for Zoo members - and members can get early entry, from 4 to 5 p.m. General admission is from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Electric Safari ends at 8:30 p.m. Advance timed tickets are required for members and the general public, and some nights will sell out! Get tickets at cmzoo.org/electric. Remember, the only way to guarantee the authenticity and best price for your Electric Safari tickets is by reserving them via Cheyenne Mountain Zoo's website: cmzoo.org/electric.

Electric Safari features more than 50 acres of twinkling lights, multiple larger-than-life animal inflatables, a drone light show, 90 artisan-made light sculptures, visits with CMZoo animals and breathtaking nighttime city views. (Drone show and inflatables are weather dependent.)

Please help us thank our Electric Safari 2024 partners, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Raising Cane's, Drive Toyota, U.S. Bank and Livewell Animal Urgent Care of Colorado Springs.

Looking back at 2024, and feeling grateful for our bird conservation projects at CMZoo. Thanks to the support of CMZoo m...
12/28/2024

Looking back at 2024, and feeling grateful for our bird conservation projects at CMZoo. Thanks to the support of CMZoo members, our team joined a 40+-year study of flammulated owls in Pike National Forest. Ten of these tiny, elusive owls were fitted with Motus trackers to help track their migrations. This important research will help conservationists identify and protect critical habitats they need to thrive.

Migratory birds face increasing threats like pollution, pesticides, habitat loss, and collisions with human-made structures. Building on CMZoo’s dedication to protecting these species, member-funded Motus towers were recently installed at CMZoo and Fountain Creek Nature Center. These towers are part of a global network that tracks birds wearing Motus tags, providing critical data to aid conservation efforts worldwide.

Every membership and visit to the Zoo helps make projects like this possible. Thank you for you for helping wildlife and wild places!

Looking back at 2024, and feeling grateful for our release conservation programs at CMZoo. 2024 was a record-breaking br...
12/27/2024

Looking back at 2024, and feeling grateful for our release conservation programs at CMZoo. 2024 was a record-breaking breeding year for CMZoo’s black-footed ferret conservation program, with 37 kits born! It was also a pioneering year. CMZoo’s conservationists tested multi-partner breeding to see if females could conceive and whelp kits from different dads in the same litter. Out of seven females in the trial, two had litters with two fathers represented.

Hundreds of critically endangered Wyoming toads and tadpoles were released in two groups over the summer into their native habitat - the Laramie Basin in Wyoming, the only place in the world where these toads live. Since 2008, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, along with partners from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and others, has driven the year-round effort to breed, raise and release Wyoming toads.

Because chytrid fungus is present in most wild waters, the CMZoo conservation team and others are testing innovative methods to help the toads build resilience or even adapt to the fungus. This includes carefully controlled trials where toads are intentionally exposed to the fungus to study potential solutions.

Happy Fur-sday!
12/26/2024

Happy Fur-sday!

Less than a week left of Electric Safari!Nightly through Jan. 1, celebrate the season with your loved ones at Cheyenne M...
12/26/2024

Less than a week left of Electric Safari!

Nightly through Jan. 1, celebrate the season with your loved ones at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo's Electric Safari — recently ranked Second Best Zoo Lights in North America, in USA TODAY's 10Best Reader's Choice Awards. Tickets are available at cmzoo.org/electric.

Electric Safari is free for Zoo members - and members can get early entry, from 4 to 5 p.m. General admission is from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Electric Safari ends at 8:30 p.m. Advance timed tickets are required for members and the general public, and some nights will sell out! Get tickets at cmzoo.org/electric. Remember, the only way to guarantee the authenticity and best price for your Electric Safari tickets is by reserving them via Cheyenne Mountain Zoo's website: cmzoo.org/electric.

Electric Safari features more than 50 acres of twinkling lights, multiple larger-than-life animal inflatables, a drone light show, 90 artisan-made light sculptures, visits with CMZoo animals and breathtaking nighttime city views. (Drone show and inflatables are weather dependent.)

Please help us thank our Electric Safari 2024 partners, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Raising Cane's, Drive Toyota, U.S. Bank and Livewell Animal Urgent Care of Colorado Springs.

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This fall, volunteers and conservation experts gathered near Las Animas, Colorado, to release 33 endangered black-footed ferrets (BFFs) into the wild, including some that were born at CMZoo! 2024 was a record-breaking breeding year for CMZoo's BFF conservation program, with 37 kits born! It was also a pioneering year. CMZoo's conservationists tested multi-partner breeding to see if females could conceive and whelp kits from different dads in the same litter. Out of seven females in the trial, two had litters with two fathers represented. Read more: https://www.cmzoo.org/news/archive/critically-endangered-black-footed-ferrets-paternity-test-results-are-in/. BFFs were considered extinct until the 1980s. On Sept. 26, 1981, a ranch dog named Shep caught a BFF. Shep’s catch led to the discovery of a small population of the elusive animals in Meeteetse, Wyoming. That population became the hope for the recovery of the entire species. Since then, zoos, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center and other organizations have banded together to breed, prepare, release and monitor BFFs to increase the population. CMZoo joined the fight to save ferrets in 1991, when its BFF breed-and-release program began. In the last 33 years, 647 kits have been born on Cheyenne Mountain. The Zoo is a major contributor to recovery efforts, releasing BFFs to protected wild places in Colorado every year. Watch the full video here: https://www.cmzoo.org/news/archive/cmzoo-releases-endangered-black-footed-ferrets-in-colorado/

Adira taking a paws for #SelfCareSunday! Who knew that fur-bulous grooming could look so fierce?

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