#minnesota zoo

[owlpellet]

close kitty encounter on my zoo day!

#minnesota zoo #amur tiger #big cats

[beardedmrbean]

Wild, you can't usually see the ghosts that the cats attack this well

Minnesota Zoo

#cats #kitties #tigers #minnesota zoo #conservation

[damn-daemon]

Treetop Trail at the Minnesota Zoo is absolutely amazing this time of year ❤

#minnesota #minnesota zoo #i love fall

[seraphica]

#minnesota zoo #halloween #tiger #amur tiger #candy corn

[snototter]

Southern Three-Banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus) 

by Josh More

#southern three banded armadillo #Tolypeutes matacus #Tolypeutes #Chlamyphoridae #Cingulata #mammalia #chordata #captive animal #minnesota zoo #armadillos

[sitting-on-me-bum]

caribou by wee3beasties

#caribou #zoo #minnesota zoo #flickr #animal #mammal #wildlife #nature

[amurleopards]

by Jeff Wiles

#Amur leopard #Far Eastern leopard #endangered #Big Cat #Leopard #Minnesota Zoo #zoo #photo #Amur leopard cub #captive

[figmentjedi]

#minnesota zoo #otters

[7rashstar]

05-25-22

#minnesota zoo #object #may 2022

[twincitiesgeek]

The Minnesota Zoo Treetop Trail Opens New Pathways for Visitors

The Treetop Trail provides a new vantage point for Minnesota Zoo visitors to explore.

Riina Ryynänen Loar The monorail at the Minnesota Zoo closed in 2013 when its operating costs no longer justified its continued use. Ten years later, it has been revived and completely repurposed as an elevated walking trail. I remember the monorail at the Minnesota Zoo from childhood. Though I didn’t ride it often, I vaguely recall watching through the window as the scenery passed by—every…

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#Minnesota Zoo #Treetop Trail

[biglisbonnews]

Minnesota students compete in a STEM challenge to redesign tapir exhibit Here's the latest Tapir Talk! Elementary, middle, and high school students across Minnesota are competing this week in the Minnesota Zoo's "Zooms STEM Design Challenge," where they are applying STEM skills to solve a real-world problem. This year the task is to design a new exhibit habitat for the endangered Malayan tapir. — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/03/08/minnesota-students-compete-in-a-stem-challenge-to-redesign-tapir-exhibit.html

#Post #minnesota zoo #Tapir Talk #Jennifer Sandlin #Boing Boing

[owlpellet]

#nicobar pigeon #minnesota zoo

[beardedmrbean]

Minnesota Zoo

#Minnesota Zoo #tigers #siberian tiger #amur tiger #tiger cubs

[maepolzine]

A Night at the Library: MN Zoo Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular 2022

A little photo journal of the MN Zoo Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular (A Night at the Library)

A few years ago I went to my first ever MN Zoo Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular, then COVID happened so we didn’t end up going the two years following that. Well, this year it’s back or rather we went back to it. The theme for this year was: Night at the Libary. So, everything was themed around various types of books you might find. There are more than 5,000 glowing carved pumpkins at this event. So,…

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#events #halloween #holiday #Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular #Lifestyle #minnesota zoo #MN zoo #night at the library #Pumpkins #Travel #zoo

[dark0ta]

Taken 02/21/24

#photography #photographers on tumblr #original photography #color photography #canon eos 2000d #canon t7 #minnesota #Como Zoo #nature #foliage #plants #plant photography #greenhouse

[hclib]

Resident Mountain Lion

With the sad news this week about the death of the cougar travelling through Minneapolis, here is a bit of the story of a much earlier cougar to find itself in Minneapolis. In June 1899, the Minneapolis Tribune reported that the park board had purchased a mountain lion, cinnamon bear, and "various kinds of foxes and tropical birds" to add to its growing zoo at Minnehaha Park. The park board bought the animals from "a stranded showman" for $325. This was the first mountain lion to live at a Minneapolis zoo.

The Minnehaha zoo that awaited the new mountain lion contained everything from moose and elk to alligators and sea lions. Started informally in the early years of the park, the zoo was such a favored attraction among park visitors that park officials continued to add animals. While the deer, moose, and elk could endure the snow and ice outside at Minnehaha Park, most other animals -- including the mountain lion -- were moved to enclosed barns for the winter.

Despite the popularity of the zoo, some questioned its place in Minnehaha Falls and the confined quarters of the animals. When Theodore Wirth took the reins as Superintendent of Parks, he got the park board out of the zoo business. While a few of the animals -- deer, elk, and bears, for instance -- remained in at Minnehaha Park until the 1920s, most of the other animals moved down the road to the new Longfellow Gardens in 1907. R. F. Jones, the owner of Longfellow Gardens, added other cougars to the zoo over the years, and three mountain lion cubs were even born at the zoo in 1926. Longfellow Gardens closed in the 1930s.

Excerpt from the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board Annual Report, 1899. Proceedings and annual reports from the park board are now fully searchable in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.

#minneapolis #minnesota #zoos #mountain lions #minneapolis park and recreation board #parks #minnehaha park