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 […]
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? […]
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 […]
By Rebecca Wood Potter Park Zoo once again helped lend a hand in banding a 1-month-old peregrine falcon chick. The Board of Water and Light (BWL) has been helping peregrine […]
Potter Park Zoo keepers Cagney M. and Liz J. attended the Old World Monkey Taxon Advisory Group in August 2017. This meeting, hosted by the Columbus Zoo, was a professional […]
We are so excited to see our Adopt-A-Garden program blossom this year! We have over ten adopted spaces throughout the zoo, cared for by new and veteran volunteers with varying […]
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to spend the night at the zoo? Well, now’s your chance to find out! The Potter Park Zoo Education Department offers […]
Four northern tree shrew pups were born May 24, 2018 at Potter Park Zoo. This is the zoo’s third successful litter from parents Rose (age 4) and Oliver (age 8). […]
Spring has sprung and summer is quickly approaching! Looking for a great way to get outside and help your community zoo? Potter Park Zoo recently launched a new Adopt–A–Garden program that welcomes volunteers to create a beautiful garden space in the zoo. Whether […]
They’re out! The North American river otter pups will be on exhibit every day from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. starting Friday, May 25, 2018. We can’t wait for you to come to […]
