The zoo's magazine has now debuted online, and if you click on the link there is an opportunity to interactively flip through the pages and catch up with the latest news from the zoo. Woodland Park Zoo member magazine penguins
Tawny Frogmouth hatching... Tawny frogmouth chick born at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo | L.A. Unleashed | Los Angeles Times
Bad News: Avian Malaria kills two penguins. Avian malaria takes toll on zoo penguins | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington | News
Blackduiker Very unfortunate. I can remember working with a group of Penguins at the Los Angeles Zoo back in 1985. You wouldn't imagine how affectionate Penguins can be when the keepers are hand feeding them. I was horrified and saddened to find out just months later, that a virus had wiped-out the entire colony.
Woodland Park Zoo has radically redesigned its website, and just about everything has been shifted around or considerably altered. I'm lost on there now! Anyway, each section of the zoo has a list of its exhibits, and the fairly comprehensive history section has been updated to include the years up until 2002. It can be found at this link: Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, WA - History of Woodland Park Zoo Introduction
Seattle zoo faces closures, layoffs... Seattle zoo faces closures, layoffs - Seattle News - MyNorthwest.com
The nocturnal house is easily one of the best in North America (although nothing can top Omaha), as there really are not many "night-time" exhibits on the continent. The animal species inside are: two-toed sloth, tamandua, coendou, slow loris, galago, armadillo, dourocouli, springhaas, and at least 3 species of bats. It would really be too bad if the zoo was forced to close that area, and it is particularly strange because 2009 will end up being one of the 3 most popular years of all-time in terms of attendance.
Note that PETA and "Friends" of the Woodland Park Zoo Elephants have taken over the comments section, how is it that whenever zoo elephants are so much as mentioned on the web, they always seem to be there?
I found this whole thing distressing: both the financial problems and that the comments were so clearly organized. Perhaps we might make our own comments
I worked out how to make a "cell phone" number (its (773) 338-7786) but it still won't accept the telephone number. And I think you're right about them not checking the information seeing as it accepted "I_better_not_have_spam@my_computer_tomorrow.freeserve.co.uk" as a valid email address
You're right, I just deleted the telephone number and it let me in. Unfortunately, it then said that it would send me a verification e-mail to activate my account
Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, WA - 11.19.2009 WPZ Press Release It is official now. The Woodland Park Zoo will be closing its excellent nocturnal house (just like the Bronx Zoo did earlier this year) and also laying off staff in the form of 12 full-time equivalencies. All of this after a near record year in terms of attendance.
Local News | Woodland Park artificially inseminates elephant again | Seattle Times Newspaper Chai was inseminated first on Wednesday and again on Thursday.
The zoo has posted a concept art drawing in facebook of how the new tiger exhibit could look like. Woodland Park Zoo - Attractions/Things to Do - Seattle, WA | Facebook
The zoo's 3rd quarter, 2011, report: http://www.zoo.org/document.doc?id=372 There is a little bit of information about the almost 2-acre redevelopment of the oldest section of the zoo (tigers, bears and otters) and it will open in two phases (2013 + 2014).
A $1 million donation to the zoo has been announced, along with a few more details about the Asian tiger/bear 2-acre complex. At this point 82% of the funding has been raised: Zoo Conservation Maze at Stocker Farms - Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, WA
