by Samantha Butts | Dec 20, 2023 | Zoo Blog, Zoo News
Through EARTH Ltd, Southwick’s Zoo supports and donates to Cheetah Conservation Botswana (CCB), a conservation organization dedicated to protecting Botswana’s cheetahs as well as other big cats and wildlife. The world’s largest population of cheetahs can be found in...
by Samantha Butts | Dec 3, 2023 | Zoo Blog, Zoo News
Four months went into developing a training plan with Paz, our blue and gold macaw, and Derrick Silva, an education coordinator here at Southwick’s Zoo. In these months, Derrick worked on building his relationship with Paz. It is important that they are both...
by Samantha Butts | Oct 20, 2023 | Zoo Blog, Zoo News
At the sound of a bell, LJ and Levannah, our African lions, run into their building. This is a part of their recently established emergency recall behavior. In animal training, the term “recall” refers to instances when the animal is cued to move towards a specific...
by Samantha Butts | Oct 4, 2023 | Zoo Blog, Zoo News
During the day our animals spend their time running around, swinging from branches, or playing with the enrichment left for them by their zookeepers. Once the sun sets many of them begin to relax and go to sleep. However, for some animals, when the sun sets their day...
by Samantha Butts | Sep 30, 2023 | Zoo Blog, Zoo News
On September 29, EARTH Limited held the annual wine-tasting fundraiser, Winos for Rhinos, to support rhino conservation efforts. Guests enjoyed an elegant wine tasting, raffles, a silent auction, a meet and greets with several of our animal ambassadors, a video...
by Samantha Butts | Sep 1, 2023 | Zoo Blog, Zoo News
After almost a month in incubation, a Scarlet Macaw broke through its shell. The baby hatched on March 26, 2023 from rescued Macaw parents in Costa Rica at the Macaw Recovery Network (MRN). In honor of Southwick’s Zoo’s generous support to the Macaw Recovery Network,...
