Woodland Park Zoo Press Release

What:
Hot summer days mean cool treats for Woodland Park Zoo’s animals. Come watch jaguars, hippos, grizzly bears and otters as they cool down in the pool or with ice treats and other summer favorites.

Photo: Ryan Hawk

Also, while you’re here, check out the zoo’s red-crowned crane chicks. The endangered chicks hatched on June 24 and 26. They look like long-legged chicken chicks, and spend their days following mom and dad around the enclosure in search of insects to eat.

When/Where:
Wednesday, July 11.
Media are welcome to come on their own at these times:

Other:
An active participant in the Red-crowned Crane Species Survival Plan (SSP), Woodland Park Zoo has been breeding its pair of red-crowned
cranes since the Kobe Oji Zoo in Japan donated them in 1992. The first successful hatchings occurred in 1999. Since then nine cranes have hatched at the zoo. In addition to the SSP, Woodland Park Zoo is part of a cooperative effort to return red-crowned cranes to their native habitat in the Amur District, the extreme southwestern region of Russia. Sadly the red-crowned crane is the second most endangered species of crane in the world; there is only an estimated population of 2,000 red-crowned cranes.

For more information about red-crowned cranes, visit the zoo’s Web site at www.zoo.org.

Info:
Summer hours are 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. daily. Zoo admission: Adult (13-64) $15; Child (3-12) $10. Free for children 2 and under.

Parking: $4.00. Parking is limited. Please call Metro at 206.553.3000 for bus service to the zoo.

Accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, award-winning Woodland Park Zoo is famed for pioneering naturalistic exhibits and setting a standard for zoos all over the world. With conservation, education and excellent animal care at the core of the zoo’s mission, the zoo is helping to save endangered species in Washington state and around the world including tree kangaroos, snow leopards, red-crowned cranes, African wild dogs, western pond turtles and Oregon silverspot butterflies. By inspiring visitors and others to care and act, Woodland Park Zoo is making a difference in our planet’s future.