The Toronto Zoo hosted a media event to announce that the Zoo and, long-time community partner, the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto (CCCGT), will be co-hosting a fundraising dinner on Saturday, October 15, 2016 to celebrate the first birthday…
The 150-acre nature park welcomed two Reticulated Giraffes to their facility. The male and female giraffe yearlings, named Ziphora and Moses arrived from a zoological facility in the USA and are now enjoying their new enclosure at Safari Niagara. Clearance has been given…
The Toronto Zoo is proud to announce that the critically endangered Ptychochromis (tie-ko-chrome-us) insolitus (P. insolitus) have successfully been bred for the first time in Canada. In September of 2014, Tim McCaskie, Toronto Zoo Wildlife Care Keeper, returned from another successful field season…
Safari Niagara, Niagara's only zoo, will host its inaugural Brew at the Zoo on October 1st, 2016. This Oktoberfest Craft Beer Festival will be the first of its kind in the Niagara Region, exclusively featuring Ontario craft beer & cider.…
The Toronto Zoo is pleased to announce that Tori, a six year old female Grevy's zebra (Equus grevyi), gave birth to a filly on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 2:49 pm. This birth is important for Grevy's zebra conservation as the species is currently listed as Endangered on the International…
Debuting this morning at 9:00 am Viewers from around the world can now watch giant pandas live on the new TELUS Giant Panda Cam only at the Toronto Zoo. This will be hosted on the Toronto Zoo website and enable viewers to watch live footage of giant panda, Er Shun and her two…
Photo Credit: Toronto Zoo In 2015 Toronto Zoo's Wildlife Nutrition Centre (WNC) produced, harvested, and distributed approximately 20,000 kilograms of browse material, which is vegetation, such as twigs and young shoots, to the browsing zoo herbivores. This large amount is harvested…
On Tuesday, August 2, 2016, a team from the Toronto Zoo’s Wildlife Health Centre and medical staff from The Scarborough Hospital’s Division of General Surgery performed surgery on the Zoo’s 44-year-old female Western lowland gorilla named Josephine. The surgery was conducted…
On Wednesday, July 6, 2016, the Toronto Zoo was proud to announce that the 2016 Puerto Rican crested toad breeding program, which began on May 3, 2016, was extremely successful with over 6,000 tadpoles being sent to Puerto Rico that day. The tadpoles would be…