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In the short two-months he has been on the job, Mahandry has moved from training to action. Just a few weeks ago, he set out on a week-long excursion to assess the nurseries in the area as well as to search for ideal trees to propagate. On this first trip, Mahandry’s project planted 3,000 trees.
When you come to work every day knowing that the people around you share your values, and want to do everything possible to connect our community with wildlife so they are moved to conserve it, it matters.
The bird species that call Seneca Park Zoo home live in open-air habitats with no barriers to keep them from flying away. So why do they stay?
There is a lot of preparation involved in sending an animal from one zoo to another. The whole process usually starts with a recommendation by the Species Survival Plan (SSP).
Spiders and snakes seem to fit the mold of what people like least about animals, whether it’s because of the many legs they have, or in the case of snakes, their lack of legs all together.
Hear from zoo keeper Hanna Kaiser about what it’s like to work with Seneca Park Zoo’s 28-year-old female polar bear, Aurora, every day.
With habitat openings slated for this summer, construction crews are making strides every day on the four-acre expansion of A Step into Africa and new habitats for snow leopard and red panda. The progress is exciting to see.
Learn how to identify local frog and toad species by call, locate and register a wetland site, and collect observations to be submitted to the nationwide dataset. FrogWatch USA™ is the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ (AZA) citizen science program.
What do the Amerks and polar bears have in common? They both depend on ice! While the former requires ice to play a hockey game, the latter requires ice for survival.
Seneca Park Zoo is home to four African elephants, three African lions and 12 olive baboons. And I’m sure it comes as no surprise that Rochester, NY can experience some extreme winters, so what do the African animals do in the winter time?
