30 Jul
Here’s a quick update with a few of the changes that have happened with the animal collection at the Assiniboine Park Zoo.
Lots of pronghorn babies have appeared this week. An elk and a European bison were also born over the last week. You may be wondering if this baby is Conrad’s. Yes it is. Bison [...]
30 Jul
The Zoo Education has been conducting free summer education exhibit talks and interpretive stations at the Assiniboine Park Zoo for a number of years and 2009 is no exception. Our talks run daily and are scattered throughout the zoo so that we can talk about as many of our animals as possible over the day. [...]
28 Jul
The Zoo Education Centre is offering one-hour guided trolley tours again this summer. Join us for a relaxing one-hour guided tour of the zoo on our special zoo trolley with a friendly, knowledgeable member of our Zoo Education team.
Tour Times: 11:30 to 12:30 pm, 12:15 to 1:15 pm, 1:00 to 2:00 pm, 1:45 to 2:45 [...]
28 Jul
The Zoological Society of Manitoba and Assiniboine Park Zoo have been busy over the past couple of years significantly reducing our carbon footprint. What does that mean you may ask? Well, simply that we are trying to do as many things at the zoo that reduce our negative impact on the earth and the environment. [...]
23 Jul
We’re getting lots of questions from zoo visitors these days about what they can new animals that can see at the zoo. At the moment, lots of babies. The Assiniboin Park Zoo has had many youngsters born this year including fox, markhor, reindeer, elk, zebra, eagle, crested screamer, caribou, bison, wisent (European bison), musk ox, [...]
5 Jul
You can now help the Assiniboine Park Zoo and the planet at the same time you are learning how to keep some money in your own pockets!
The Zoological Society of Manitoba has teamed up with Planet Partnership® to help our patrons learn how to be more sustainable – and it only takes 45 minutes. Here’s just [...]
5 Jul
I am happy to announce that the Zoo Education Centre was one of the recipients of the 2009 Spirit of the Earth Awards, a project of Manitoba Hydro. The program that we won for is called Aboriginal Animal Teachings.
Aboriginal people have always used storytelling as a way of teaching important lessons to children, as [...]
5 Jul
The following text was taken from http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8128000/8128738.stm. All rights are reserved by the author.
The Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) is also commonly known as the Siberian tiger.
Amur tigers on ‘genetic brink’
Matt Walker, Editor, Earth News
A wild Amur tiger is a rare sight. The world’s largest cat, the Amur tiger, is down to an effective wild [...]
4 Jul
I met Conrad back in 1996. He was the most impressive looking bison I had ever seen, and he rivals every other one I’ve seen since. Conrad spent nearly 20 years living at the Assinboine Park Zoo, until his death yesterday July 3, 2009.
My favourite memory of Conrad was when he would decide to wander [...]
