Several projects are in the works for Oklahoma City Zoological Park and Botanical Garden that officials say will give people renewed reasons for visiting. Apart from three new animal habitat construction projects, the zoo is in the early planning phase of a big new exhibit. “We have what seems like a whole slew of projects […]
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Guests will spot plenty of interesting specimens at OKC Zoo’s Creatures and Cocktails event
Costume contest winners receive zoo gift cards, a Texas vacation getaway and other prizes.
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Food Briefs: Beats & Bites, Right-A-Way returns, Zoo menu update
“With the perfect mix of some of my recipes and the Speakeasy, it is a delicious combination,” he said.
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Parents have many places to turn for youth-centered spring break events in the metro
Science Museum Oklahoma, Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center and many more offer activities during the school break.
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Oklahoma City Zoo welcomes new red panda cub
Red pandas are an endangered species with no close living relatives.
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ANIMAL conference helps set safe, humane standards
Kirkpatrick Foundation will host The ANIMAL Conference, a two-day symposium on current and future trends affecting animals.
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Chicken-Fried News: It’s God time!
An Oklahoma school took its students on a field trip to a zoo with a less than scientific mission.
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Love is in the air
Then, Oct. 2, four red river hog piglets were born. And on Oct. 7, the zoo announced that Asian elephants Rex and Asha are having a baby — 18-year-old Asha is seven months pregnant with her second calf. Asha’s first calf, Malee, born in 2011, was the first elephant born at the OKC zoo. Zoo […]
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Move over, Malee
The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Gardens celebrates the arrival of its newest family member, a baby girl giraffe. The little-ish bundle of joy already stands six feet tall and, according to the press release from the Zoo, is “full of energy, personality and spunk.” Pending weather, the baby girl can be seen during the […]
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CONCERTS
Cold War Kids/Papa, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. AUG. 21 Lil Wayne/T.I./2 Chainz, Chesapeake Energy Arena. AUG. 21 Red Dirt at the Zoo featuring Stoney LaRue, Wade Bowen, Aaron Watson and more, Zoo Amphitheatre. AUG. 24 Seether/10 Years/Eye Empire, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. AUG. 25 Ted Nugent/Shotgun Rebellion, Diamond Ballroom. AUG. 25 Hank Williams III, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. […]