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Tiny crabs, curious minds, and low-tide discoveries! 🦀 Join us for Explore the Shore today at Tacoma’s Owen Beach at 10:30 am. Join our beach walk naturalists for a hands-on adventure as we uncover the hidden wonders of Puget Sound at low tide. It’s FREE, fun, and full of surprises. 🐙
Laerke’s start in life was very difficult. After a medical emergency shortly after birth, she required intensive care and was hand-raised at the Detroit Zoo. Although she’s made progress, Laerke still has specific needs and receives personalized care from her animal care team. Gentle and cautious, yet incredibly powerful, she especially loves enrichment time and diving, splashing, and playing in her saltwater pool, which is filtered directly from Puget Sound. Learn more at pdza.org/polarbearcare
Tiny crabs, curious minds, and low-tide discoveries! 🦀 Our Explore the Shore event is tomorrow, Tuesday, July 14, at Tacoma’s Owen Beach at 10:30 am. Join our beach walk naturalists for a hands-on adventure as we uncover the hidden wonders of Puget Sound at low tide. It’s FREE, fun, and full of surprises. 🐙
#lowtide #beachwalk #tacoma #exploretheshore
Strike a pose! 🐧 Meet one-month-old Magellanic penguin chicks Chimi, Churri and Malbec, serving up peak penguin cuteness.
📷: Animal care staff Kacie
#penguin #penguinchick #waddle #zooquarium
Thanks for joining us for our first Arctic Sea Ice Weekend! Discover simple, everyday climate actions that make a real difference, from saving energy at home to cutting down on waste. Small changes add up, and when we take action together, we help create a healthier future for Arctic wildlife and our planet. 🌎
📷: Animal care staff Kacie
#saveourseaice #arcticfox #enrichment
Our American Red Wolf pups, born April 18, are now howling with the pack!
The pups are part of the AZA SAFE: Saving Animals From Extinction program and the American Red Wolf population management program. Depending on what`s best for the species, they may remain at our offsite facility, move to another accredited zoo or conservation center, or potentially contribute to future recovery efforts in the wild.
Our offsite Red Wolf facility has played an important role in recent recovery successes, including multiple pup births, fostering pups into wild dens to increase genetic diversity, and the release of adult wolves into protected habitats in North Carolina. Every pup born here helps support the future of one of the world`s most endangered canids.
Meet Owen! 🦭 Our second-ever sea lion pup arrived on June 1, and he’s thriving alongside mom Eloise behind the scenes. He’s nursing, growing stronger every day, and getting to know his animal care team. 💙
#sealion #sealionpup #pupdate #babyanimals #zooquarium
Meet Chimi, Churri, and Malbec, named by their care team after traditional foods and drinks from their native range of Argentina and Chile. These growing Magellanic penguin chicks have reached a big milestone and are now eating whole fish all on their own! 🐧
