Written by Becca Davis, Potter Park Zoo Animal Care Intern It was a great privilege to work alongside such passionate and experienced zookeepers this summer as an intern at Potter Park Zoo. I was able to learn that being a zookeeper is much more than daily animal care. This was a realistic glimpse into the […]
By Area 60 Zookeeper Ashleigh Winkelmann and Head Keeper Pat Fountain If you’ve spent much time at the zoo this summer, you may have noticed that for a few days each month the area around the rhino exhibit has been blocked off with caution tape. Why would zoo staff restrict access to the rhino exhibit […]
PPZ Celebrates Second Year of Zoo in Your Neighborhood, Providing Free Zoo Passes for Families Have you heard of the Zoo in Your Neighborhood program and our family zoo passes? Zoo in Your Neighborhood is kicking off its second year this October! It is a program designed to reach out to all members of our […]
Potter Park Zoo is incredibly excited to announce the birth of two critically endangered cotton-top tamarins on Monday Oct. 1, 2018! There are only about 6,000 cotton-top tamarins left in the wild due to destruction their forest habitat in Colombia. For this reason, Potter Park Zoo’s cotton-top tamarins have a very important advocacy role to […]