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Friday, September 18, 2020
Zoo Wins Back-to-Back Exhibit Awards
Nashville Zoo is proud to announce that our Tiger Crossroads exhibit has received Top Honors for the Exhibit Design Award from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. This award was also given to the Zoo in 2019 for our Expedition Peru: Trek of the Andean Bear exhibit. Winning top honors in exhibit design for two years in a row has taken place only two other times in AZA history. The first in 1976 and 1977 at the Saint Louis Zoo. The second was 33 years ago in 1986 and 1987 at the Bronx Zoo.&n...
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Monday, June 29, 2020
Pouch Peeking Provides Pictures of Progress
Last year, keepers at the Nashville Zoo’s Kangaroo Kickabout learned that our mob of Red kangaroos would begin breeding. They developed an ambitious training plan to observe and record kangaroo babies (joeys) throughout the developmental process from birth to emergence from the pouch.
Kangaroos are considered marsupials which means they give birth to a premature fetus that finishes developing while attached to a teat in the mother’s pouch. The pouch is a fold of skin that covers...
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