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Parking with Pollinators

Next time you’re searching for a parking spot in the Zoo’s lot, see if you can spot a particularly beautiful piece of land. It’s our latest pollinator garden!  

A mother North Sulawesi babirusa lays next to her two baby piglets in a barn.

Two North Sulawesi Babirusa Piglets are Here!

Our North Sulawesi babirusa, Piggy, recently gave birth to two new babies: a boy and a girl!

June the loggerhead sea turtle during an exam

Releasing June Cleaver the Loggerhead Sea Turtle

June Cleaver, our 230-plus-pound loggerhead sea turtle patient, is going to be released on Wednesday, Sept. 4!

Meet the Animal: Pancake Tortoise

Flap and Jack the African pancake tortoises are fantastic Animal Ambassadors. The live behind-the-scenes at our Zoo, so you may not have been formally introduced. Today, we’re changing that!

Building a Living Shoreline

These important man-made shorelines are built with natural materials and reinstate native plants populations to help stabilize the shoreline, reduce erosion, buffer against storm surge and improve water quality.

Meet the Patient: Bling

This juvenile green sea turtle was found entangled in fishing line at a fishing pier in Port Canaveral and brought to our Sea Turtle Healing Center.

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