Did you know the Staten Island Zoo has a wishlist on Amazon? Amazon spring sale days are almost over, but there’s still time to add a few exciting new items to your cart to support our animals.
Through the years, our animals have had fun with new enrichment purchased by some of our awesome supporters. Enrichment allows animals to demonstrate their species-typical behavior and gives them the opportunity to exercise control or choice over their environment, therefore, enhancing their overall welfare.
If you would like to support our animals, visit our wishlist at the link below which has a collection of new toys and items our animals can manipulate or forage from to keep their minds active and busy, like these lick mats for our lemurs. Keepers love to add their favorite foods to them, such as craisins and applesauce. They are more challenging than a simple dish and encourages our primates to utilize their sense of smell to find the treats and to manipulate the item in such a way to get the goodies. You can also click the link in our bio - it’ll send you right there
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1XXWD17ZAFD18?ref_=wl_share
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Through the years, our animals have had fun with new enrichment purchased by some of our awesome supporters through the zoo’s Amazon wishlist. Enrichment allows animals to demonstrate their species-typical behavior and gives them the opportunity to exercise control or choice over their environment, therefore, enhancing their overall welfare. If you too would like to support our animals like the emperor tamarins, lemurs, leopards and so on, visit our wishlist at the link below which has a collection of new toys and items our animals can manipulate or forage from to keep their minds active and busy. You can also click the link in our bio - it’ll send you right there 🐒🐢🦊 https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1XXWD17ZAFD18?ref_=wl_share#statenislandzoo #enrichment #amazonwishlist #supportthezoo #spreadthelove #seasonofgiving #animalsneedpresentstoo
We love when our Kids Korral animals get the zoomies. Such passion. Such energy. Such footwork 💃🕺
Yesterday was International Rabbit Day and we can’t believe we missed it 🤦♀️🤦🤦♂️ To make up for it, here’s a little ASMR with Susie our Giant Flemish Rabbit from earlier in the week to get you through this soggy day 🐰🥬💕
We can’t get enough of our beaver’s hand grabs for food. And Hudson’s munching sounds really are the cherry on top of this cuteness overload 😍🦫😍
Today is officially the first day of Spring! To honor the new season, we invited our weather partners, the students from Susan Wagner High School AP Environmental Science Class, to announce the final verdict of Chuck’s prediction. Was our world famous groundhog’s forecast of an early Spring based on science or luck?
By utilizing the school’s weather station and analyzing streams of data including temperature readings, the students have determined that Chuck’s prediction was, in fact, scientifically accurate!! Temperatures tended to range more on the high end than the low, making our Staten Island groundhog correct once again. We thank the hard-working students of Wagner for keeping great data. Happy Spring to all!
Groundhog Day and Chuck’s predication was made possible by the generosity of Investors Foundation and Citizens Philanthropic Foundation.
Groundhog Day 2023 LIVE From The Staten Island Zoo
Happy Groundhog Day!
Coming to you LIVE from the Staten Island Zoo it is the best weather prognosticator, Staten Island Chuck making his prediction for early Spring or six more weeks of Winter!
The day's events are proudly presented by the Investors Foundation and Citizens Philanthropic Foundation.
Be sure to tune in to catch a glimpse of Chuck, in addition to messages from many special guests from the Staten Island community and beyond, including New York City Mayor Eric Adams!
Kenneth Mitchell, Executive Director for the Staten Island Zoo will be joined by Edward Burke, Senior Advisor to the Borough President of Staten Island and Tiffany Feo, Executive Services Administrator for the Staten Island Zoo, will host the mornings festivities.
Gone fishin’ 🎣
Servals in the wild are often found near rivers and streams for they enjoy playing in it and using them for a food source for small prey like fish and frogs. Our servals often get their pool filled with capelin so they can exhibit some of those natural behaviors. It may have taken Earl a couple of tries, but he got his reward in the end 🐟 #statenislandzoo #servals #caturday #africancats #fishing #herefishyfishy
We’ve reached over 25% of our goal for #GivingZooDay! Our friends of the zoo are just incredible and know that these contributions will go a long way in upgrading our amphibian habitats. We will be leaving our donation link up for the next few days for those that may not have had the opportunity to donate yet.
Remember anyone who donates:
- $100.00 or more will be entered to win a 20-minute private encounter for 4 people with the Staten Island Zoo’s Capybara.
- $250 or more, the donor will receive a Poison Dart Frog Adopt-an-Animal
- $500.00 or more will receive a private encounter for 4 people with Dunkin, the sloth!
- Every $100 donation gets you an extra raffle into our capybara encounter ($200 = 2 raffle entries).
Stef, one of our female capybara, is all ready for her shining moment. And we mean come on, who wouldn’t want a chance to see these giant rodents up close and personal - in real life, not just social media!
https://givebutter.com/StatenIslandZooGivingZOOday2022
#statenislandzoo #givingzooday #govingtuesday #continues #fortheanimals #meetandgreets #raffle #capybara #rodent #pignose #thegiftthatkeepsongiving #thankyouforbeingafriend
Thank you for all the amazing support so far from our friends of the zoo, we have raised over $1,735!!! The Staten Island Zoo is almost 20% of the way to our $10,000 goal! Thank you to everyone who has donated so far today, your donation will have a huge impact for some of our zoo’s smallest animals!
Remember anyone who donates:
- $100.00 or more will be entered to win a 20-minute private encounter for 4 people with the Staten Island Zoo's Capybara.
- $250 or more, the donor will receive a Poison Dart Frog Adopt-an-Animal
- $500.00 or more will receive a private encounter for 4 people with Dunkin!
- Every $100 donation gets you an extra raffle into our capybara encounter ($200 = 2 raffle entries).
Donate today to have to greatest impact for our animals!
#statenislandzoo #givingzooday #givingtuesday #animalcare #zoolife #fundraiser #giveback #supportthezoo #fortheanimals #amphibians #frogs #salamanders #upgrades #everylittlebithelps #thankyouforyoursupport
Today’s event is always treasured by all who attend so we wanted to share with all of our friends some of the beautiful moments we experienced at the zoo. In honor of Native American Heritage Month, the Red Storm Drum and Dance Troupe came to the zoo to express their connection to the Earth through stories, songs and dance. They even brought a few volunteers up to partake in a dance to honor the crow. The troupe also went around to our native animal exhibits and blessed the animals including our red foxes, striped skunk and North American porcupines 🍁 #statenislandzoo #redstormtroupe #nativeamericanheritagemonth #blessingoftheanimals #tradition
Help support the Staten Island Zoo on #GivingZOOday!
This year’s #GivingZOOday falls on Tuesday, November 29th, 2022. The Staten Island Zoo is raising funds to help update the frog habitats in the Tropical Forest wing. Amphibians are critical to the environment they live in. Acting as indicator species, their population serves as a measure of the health of their habitat - the more frogs present, the more the ecosystem is thriving. However, at least one-third of known amphibians are considered threatened with extinction, which is the highest extinction rate of any group of animal!
Your donation will go a long way to assist our animal care staff in updating some of our favorite animals' habitats here at the zoo, which provide a true representation of the creatures we need to support in the wild. Tune in all week to find out more about #Givingzooday on #GivingTuesday 🐸
#statenislandzoo #givingback #upgrade #frogsarefriends #indicatorspecies #fortheanimals
Our keepers really outdid themselves this year! The animals received a ton of Turkey Day enrichment and it sure looks like they fully got into the holiday spirit. Hope you and yours are enjoying your Thanksgiving to the fullest 🦃 #statenislandzoo #happythanksgivng #turkeyday #enrichment #turkeys #football #pies #ohmy
There is always something new at the zoo! Have you seen our California brown sea hare in our kelp forest tank? It’s the newest addition to our aquarium and just the cutest thing you may see. As you may have noticed, a sea hare doesn’t have eyes like you and me. They have simple eyes, or a pigment pit, that detects light. Sea hares also have ear-like structures on their heads, called rhinophores, which allow them to pick up chemical cues in the water, such as those produced from others during mating season #statenislandzoo #seahare #aquarium #seaslug #lightvsdark #icantseeyoubutiknowyourethere
Just some morning playtime with our ring-tailed lemur youngsters. Playtime serves a vital role in social bonding within a lemur group. Seen here are our juveniles Anakin, Finn and Chewie, rolling around in the morning sun. Our keepers will do a morning walk-through when they first get in to ensure their animals are all in good health and had no issues overnight. It looks like these primates are doing just fine 👌🙂👍 #statenislandzoo #ringtailedlemur #playtime #socialbonding #kidsatplay
