Micke Grove Zoo

12/10/2025

Season's Greetings from one of our Coppery T**i Monkeys, Augusta!! This is their first Winter Holiday season with us, and we are so grateful to those of you who have already donated for making it an extra special one!! Here you can see Agusta interacting with a food puzzle that our keepers were able to make out of some bowls that were donated this week. It is through your support that we are able to keep our animals happy and healthy! 🐒🎄🎁

12/09/2025

Tater Tot is serving up some serious side eye wondering why you haven't been spreading the zoo holiday cheer?! To stop the judgment please support us this season by coming to the zoo or going to our amazon wish list linked in our bio. 🎀

12/08/2025

Happy Holidays from one of our Grinchy boys. This is Spud, he is one of our 2 bearded dragons in our education department. His face might be saying "bah, humbug" but his heart is full of holiday cheer!!

Please don't forget to support us by either coming to the zoo or by going to our amazon wish list located in our bio. 🎅

12/07/2025

Kye heard a rumor that its the holiday season, his favorite time of year (aside from his birthday). Its the time when his keepers give him some extra apple sauce!! Please come by and say hi to our absolute legend of a Prevost squirrel. 🍎

You can help make his holiday super special by ordering us some baby food and apple sauce off of our Amazon wish list!!🔔

12/06/2025

Happy 6th Day of December! JC is joining the holiday cheer! We wish you all a wonderful day and hope to see you soon. 🎀
Please remember to check out our amazon wish list, linked in our bio!!🎁

12/05/2025

Nyx wants to join the fun and wish you all a happy holiday season. Thank you for the donations we have already received! 💙 If you are still wanting to help support us this season please go to our amazon wish list in our bio. We understand that there were some issues with it previously, they should be fixed now. We hope to see you at the zoo this winter!!🌨️

12/04/2025

While you might not like the weather in the valley right now, our Snow Leopard Trini is absolutely loving it! This is the best time to try to catch a glimpse of the gorgeous girl. The colder and drearier the weather, the happier she is. As always, there is still no guarantee that she will be out of her den; she does have to keep up her mysterious image 😉.

If you want to make Trini's, and all our other animals', holiday season extra special this year, please check out our Wishlist linked in our bio!❄️

12/03/2025

Happy Holidays from Micke Grove Zoo!!! Reminder that our Wishlist is linked in our bio, we also hope that you stop by the zoo this month to celebrate the season with our animals in person!!🎄

12/02/2025

Happy 2nd day of December!! If you're interested in supporting our zoo this holiday season, please go to our Amazon Wishlist in our bio!! Our biggest need this year are towels and blankets. We hope to see you soon!!!☃️

12/01/2025

Happy Meme Monday everyone!!

11/29/2025

11/29/2025

More on Monarchs
Monarch butterflies lay their eggs on milkweed since the plants are too toxic to be eaten by animals. Their milk sap contains cardiotoxins that could result in gastro-intestinal concerns, seizures, and could also be fatal depending on the quantity of milkweed ingested. By laying their eggs on milkweed, female monarchs are protecting their eggs from being predated upon.

Some of the native milkweed to our state our narrow leaf, showy, and woollypod. Their seeds are dispersed by air, and each seed possesses a fluffy attachment that helps them blow further away from their parent plant. The seeds are also very light and easy to carry by the wind.

Our very first narrow leaf milkweed had two seed pods. We will be closely monitoring the rest next year to collect seeds. For more information on monarch butterflies and milkweed, visit Monarch Watch and Xerces Society