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Did you know we care for armadillos behind the scenes of Wild Florida? Gaia, Persephone and Athena are three nine-banded...
01/24/2025

Did you know we care for armadillos behind the scenes of Wild Florida? Gaia, Persephone and Athena are three nine-banded armadillos who have been at our Zoo since 2008!

Formerly ambassador animals, these armadillos are as interesting as they are adorable! From peanut butter treats to creative enrichment ideas, there's never a dull day (or should we say night?) in their habitat.

🔗To learn more about the 'dillos, read our latest blog: https://vist.ly/3mt827s

Welcome to part 4 of our dingo social media takeover! As we approach the end of the day, it’s time for our dingoes to wi...
01/23/2025

Welcome to part 4 of our dingo social media takeover! As we approach the end of the day, it’s time for our dingoes to wind down. Today, dinner consists of kibble, wet canine food and some bone. The dingoes’ all-time favorite snack is rabbit, which they occasionally eat throughout the week. After dinner, Sydney and Victoria relax in their habitat or nighthouse. 💤

Thank you for joining our dingo takeover! We hope you enjoyed this glimpse into Sydney and Victoria’s daily routine. Catch you at the next takeover!

Welcome to part 3 of our dingo social media takeover! 🥚 It’s playtime for our dingo sisters Sydney and Victoria! We're p...
01/23/2025

Welcome to part 3 of our dingo social media takeover! 🥚

It’s playtime for our dingo sisters Sydney and Victoria! We're providing our girls with some enrichment to encourage them to act on their natural behaviors and instincts. It’s also a great tool to allow them to experience something new every day.

Today, area supervisor Mic hid some food inside cardboard boxes. The goal was for the sisters to dig out their food and spot their hardboiled eggs amongst some look-alike balls. They found their snacks successfully and turned the empty boxes into toys to toss around. These two also love running through tunnels and splashing around in their pond.

When it comes to personalities, Sydney is more playful and loves to pester her sister, while Victoria is more reserved and dominant. Both dingoes love to play with each other and their keepers.

Stay tuned for part 4 to see how our dingoes finish out their day.

Welcome to part 2 of our dingo social media takeover! It’s time for Sydney and Victoria’s favorite part of the day: a wa...
01/23/2025

Welcome to part 2 of our dingo social media takeover! It’s time for Sydney and Victoria’s favorite part of the day: a walk through the Zoo! With plenty of sights and scents to explore, the dingoes love taking a stroll through our loops. Using positive reinforcement, the girls are trained to walk on a leash, sit and stay! 🐕

Lands of Change keepers Mic and Alyssa would like to remind everyone that although dingoes look cute and cuddly, they are not domestic animals. It’s important that we respect their space during their walks.

After coming in from their walk, Sydney and Victoria hop on the scale so our keepers can check their weights. It’s important to us that our animals participate in their own healthcare. This leads to confident, healthy residents!

See you in part 3 of the takeover!

Welcome to part 1 of our dingo social media takeover! Today, Lands of Change area supervisor Mic is taking us through a ...
01/23/2025

Welcome to part 1 of our dingo social media takeover! Today, Lands of Change area supervisor Mic is taking us through a day in the life of our nearly 13-year-old dingoes, Victoria and Sydney! These bushy-tailed canines, whose species is native to Australia, have been with our Zoo for over a decade! They’re also sisters, making the perfect dynamic duo. 🐕

First, Mic gets Victoria’s arthritis medication ready and gathers the rest of their food. The girls usually receive a mix of canine diet food, chicken and kibble for breakfast, which is sprinkled throughout enrichment items. This keeps breakfast time exciting and stimulating! 🍗

Mic then cleans up around the habitat and washes and refills their water containers. That’s all for the girls’ morning routine but stay tuned to our social media channels for some training in part 2!

We are heartbroken to share the passing of our 46-year-old female siamang, Sapphire. She passed surrounded by her dedica...
01/22/2025

We are heartbroken to share the passing of our 46-year-old female siamang, Sapphire. She passed surrounded by her dedicated animal care team, and her partner of 41 years, Pete. He was able to say his own goodbye, as well.

“Sapphire was a big part of so many people's day, and the Zoo won't be the same without Pete and Sapphire's duets,” said Africa platform area supervisor Alyssa Simon. “She will be greatly missed.”

At 46 years old, Sapphire more than passed the median lifespan of 26.7 years for male and female siamangs, according to the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. She recently underwent a routine wellness exam, and unfortunately never fully recovered afterward despite extraordinary efforts from our veterinary team.

It’s always hard to say goodbye to one of our animal residents, especially one who touched so many lives. You may have noticed we’ve lost a number of older animal residents in the last few weeks. We cherish all our animals through every stage of their lives, and we’re dedicated to giving them the best possible life with us.

It’s important to us to be transparent with you and give you a look at the full scope of animal care at the Zoo, which sees the highs of animal births and, inevitably, the lows of saying goodbye. We have the responsibility of understanding when our care is no longer serving them and difficult, yet compassionate, decisions need to be made.

Please keep our animal care team in your thoughts. To read more about Sapphire, please visit our blog: https://vist.ly/3mt47it

We’re only a couple of months away from completing our Zoo’s brand-new manatee rehabilitation center! 🌊 Our staff have w...
01/22/2025

We’re only a couple of months away from completing our Zoo’s brand-new manatee rehabilitation center! 🌊

Our staff have worked incredibly hard over the past year to make this project come to life, and we are now in the final stages. All of the infrastructure for this open-air facility has been built, along with the installation of our large patient pools and a big lettuce-filled refrigerator. Our life support systems are nearly 80% complete. This includes everything from our water filtration systems to devices maintaining water temperature and pH levels.

Over the next few weeks, the team will be working on getting the electrical side of things up and running and building the platform deck. We hope to have our first manatee patients on site by late March or early April!

While the future Bowen Aquarium's manatee critical care center will be taking on more severe cases, our Zoo’s location will be focusing on stable, non-critical manatee patients in need of additional monitoring, weight gain or better weather conditions for release. The goal for all our manatee patients will be for eventual release back into their native range.

We will let you know when this behind-the-scenes center is finally opened and treating its first patients.

Salamander breeding season is here! 🦎 It’s been a while since our last frosted flatwood salamander update, so we're slit...
01/20/2025

Salamander breeding season is here! 🦎

It’s been a while since our last frosted flatwood salamander update, so we're slithering by to give you a behind-the-scenes peak and let you know what’s been going on with this important conservation breeding program.

November marked the start of breeding season, and all seven salamanders have moved into one big home. Their new space is filled with live plants from their native range, a rock pond, sloping substrate to mimic their natural habitat and an automated mister for ideally timed rain showers. What more could a little sally ask for!

With lots of specifications needed to breed, it can be tricky to obtain the perfect conditions for these guys to successfully reproduce. In fact, only one other facility has been able to successfully breed this species before. But, we are hoping to be the second to help this critically endangered Florida species!

Since their move, our salamanders have been spotted making burrows and cuddling up together inside.

🔗 Learn more about our 'manders on our blog: https://brevardzoo.org/news/a-frosted-flatwood-salamander-update/

We know that providing our animal residents with choice and control over their daily lives is essential to their well-be...
01/19/2025

We know that providing our animal residents with choice and control over their daily lives is essential to their well-being. From giving our black-handed spider monkeys the ability to choose which habitat they spend the day in to offering our Florida black bear residents den options, we strive to give our animals an enriching environment full of meaningful choices and safe challenges.

Learn more about our choice and control efforts on today's podcast! You can listen to Paws for a Moment on most major podcast platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify. 🎧

We've got some exciting news! Two of our black-handed spider monkeys, Olive and Mateo, recently welcomed a new spider mo...
01/18/2025

We've got some exciting news! Two of our black-handed spider monkeys, Olive and Mateo, recently welcomed a new spider monkey baby! This newborn makes our spider monkey troop a party of 14. 🐵🎉

🔗Read all about the birth at our blog:
https://vist.ly/3msr8id

📸Thanks to curator Sidnee and keeper Katie for the photos.

Three is a magic number. 🐢🌊We had a triple sea turtle release yesterday where we said goodbye to juvenile green sea turt...
01/17/2025

Three is a magic number. 🐢🌊

We had a triple sea turtle release yesterday where we said goodbye to juvenile green sea turtles Julienne Fry, Spooky and Watermelon. After many months of rehabilitation at our Sea Turtle Healing Center, these guys were ready to head back to their ocean home.

🔗If you want to learn more about these patients, head to our blog. https://brevardzoo.org/news/a-triple-sea-turtle-release/

We are sad to share that Calypso, our 12-year-old capybara, was compassionately euthanized on Jan. 10. 🤍 On that morning...
01/16/2025

We are sad to share that Calypso, our 12-year-old capybara, was compassionately euthanized on Jan. 10. 🤍

On that morning, Calypso was observed taking labored breaths and showed limited responsiveness to her keepers. Upon examination, a large mass was found partially blocking her airway. It was decided that the most humane decision was euthanasia due to the high degree of invasiveness of the tumor and a low likelihood of recovery.

Calypso had a full routine wellness exam in 2023 and was found to be in good health at that time.

According to the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the median lifespan for female capybaras is about 8.6 years of age. We are proud to have provided Calypso with excellent care, allowing her to live well into her older years.

Calypso will be remembered fondly by her dedicated animal care team. This capybara was naturally timid, but once keepers gained her trust, she’d never leave their side while in the yard.

Rainforest Revealed keeper Kayla had a very close relationship with Calypso. After beginning work with her over five years ago, Calypso quickly became Kayla’s favorite animal to work with.

“She was a ray of sunshine and will truly be missed,” said Kayla.

You can read more about Calypso on our blog: https://brevardzoo.org/news/remembering-calypso-the-capybara/

Meet Matcha, a new patient at our Sea Turtle Healing Center. This juvenile green sea turtle came into our care with fish...
01/16/2025

Meet Matcha, a new patient at our Sea Turtle Healing Center. This juvenile green sea turtle came into our care with fishing line wrapped around their body and fibropapillomatosis tumors all over. It's a long road to recovery for this brave little turtle, but our veterinary team and Matcha themselves are fighting hard! 🐢

🔗Read all about Matcha's care at our latest blog: https://bit.ly/406Wloj

Introducing Fig, a new face in our Lands of Change loop! Since Fig is a young wrinkled hornbill who is still getting use...
01/15/2025

Introducing Fig, a new face in our Lands of Change loop! Since Fig is a young wrinkled hornbill who is still getting used to her new home, we ask that you please give her space while she adjusts in her habitat. We hope to introduce Fig to a male wrinkled hornbill in the future with the goal of further supporting this endangered species.

We'll always remember our longtime hornbill residents Morticia and Gomez fondly, and we're happy to continue to be a home for wrinkled hornbills at our Zoo. 💛

Breakfast with a view, anyone? 🥕🍠
01/13/2025

Breakfast with a view, anyone? 🥕🍠

Cotton-top tamarin family, party of 7! Twins were born to our matriarch, Luna, overnight on Jan. 2. The family is doing ...
01/12/2025

Cotton-top tamarin family, party of 7! Twins were born to our matriarch, Luna, overnight on Jan. 2. The family is doing well with older brothers Rudy, Albie, Rue and Reggie helping Luna with the new babies.

Cotton-top tamarins are critically endangered in their natural range due to habitat loss and the pet trade. This means every individual, including our two newest additions, are critical for the future of cotton-top tamarins. Read more on our blog: https://vist.ly/3ms9faa

We have some scent-sational animal residents to introduce you to! 🦨For this month's Meet the Animal, we are introducing ...
01/11/2025

We have some scent-sational animal residents to introduce you to! 🦨

For this month's Meet the Animal, we are introducing you to Oscar, Dexter and DeeDee the striped skunks. This trio is full of personality and, over on our blog, you can learn all about their day-to-day life as Ambassador Animals.

🔗: https://brevardzoo.org/news/meet-the-animals-striped-skunks/

01/09/2025

Today, Rainforest Revealed area supervisor Grace is going over all that goes into training our blue-throated and blue-and-gold macaws! From vocalizations to target training, our zookeepers are always thinking of thoughtful ways to bring out these birds' natural behaviors. These talkative birds are full of energy and personality, so there's never a dull day in the Flooded Forest! 🦜💛

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8225 N Wickham Road
Melbourne, FL
32940

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Tuesday 9:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 9:30am - 5pm
Thursday 9:30am - 5pm
Friday 9:30am - 5pm
Saturday 9:30am - 5pm
Sunday 9:30am - 5pm

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