Detroit Zoo
Baby giraffe makes Detroit Zoo debut on first birthday
By KIM NORTH SHINE • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Jabari, the Detroit Zoo’s baby giraffe, celebrated his first birthday today — and in the giraffe world, he did it like a party animal.
He got all the bamboo he wanted, voraciously pulling it from a faux jungle piece of PVC pipe that lets treats fall when faux [...]
Detroit Zoo News for the fall
by Jackie DiGiovanni, Southeast MI Home & Living Examiner
Logo courtesy of the Detroit Zoological Society
The second annual Fall Festival at the Detroit Zoo is Saturday and Sunday October 4 and 5, 2008. Entrance to the Fall Festival is included with a Zoo admission ticket.
There will be live entertainment, special activities for children at $5 per [...]
Detroit Zoo holds Fall Festival
The Detroit Zoo will hold its second annual Fall Festival Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 4-5.
Presented by Carhartt, the two-day festival features live entertainment, children’s activities, hayrides and seasonal food. All activities take place in the Main Picnic Grove from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., rain or shine. Entrance to the Fall Festival is free with [...]
Detroit Zoo All Smiles Over Three Siamese Crocodiles
ROYAL OAK, Mich., September 26, 2008 – For the first time in its 80-year history, the Detroit Zoo is celebrating the hatching of three critically endangered Siamese crocodiles. Keepers at the Holden Museum of Living Reptiles discovered the hatchlings while performing routine maintenance on the habitat.
“One of the keepers thought she heard the chirping sounds [...]