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Animal care professionals who work with aging animals, like our 12-year-old raccoons, face special challenges as they strive to give the animals the best care possible.

Since their inception into American culture as a place to gaze at creatures of all shapes and sizes from around the world, zoos have been a destination for public recreation and wonder.

Seneca Park Zoo’s male spotted hyena Lou is 26 years old today, making him the oldest spotted hyena in human care. Lou was born at the Buffalo Zoo on October 3, 1992 and came to the Zoo with his [...]

This spring, we welcomed red pandas to Seneca Park Zoo with the opening of the new Cold Asia area. Red pandas are small mammals with thick, reddish fur and long, bushy dark-ringed tails. They’re [...]

Lilac has been a guest favorite at Seneca Park Zoo since her arrival in 1979, when she was approximately a year and a half old. Lilac is the smallest of our four female African elephants, [...]

To mimic the eating habits of an elephant in nature, here at Seneca Park Zoo, we create multiple feeding opportunities for the four African elephants. Each elephant consumes about 140 pounds of [...]

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.

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 [...]

In November, Seneca Park Zoo welcomed two young female California sea lions, Mary Lou and Daley, from SeaWorld Orlando. Read about the process as told by Assistant Curator Kellee Wolowitz.