Houston Zoo Sep 6 2010

Houston Zoo moves free days to Tuesdays
Visitors stop to watch the meerkats, on alert in their exhibit area Saturday at the Houston Zoo. The zoo will now offer free admission after 2 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month. Share Resources FREE DAYS AT THE ZOO Rather than offering free admission on already-crowded holidays, patron...

Two Former Entertainment Chimps Retire at the Oakland Zoo
The Oakland Zoo , the Houston Zoo, and the Maryland Zoo were recently approached by the Chimpanzee Species Survival Plan (SSP) about helping fourteen former entertainment chimps find permanent homes. After careful consideration, the Oakland Zoo decided to accept two chimpanzees from a Northern Calif...

Design is a labor of love
Her firm also designed the John P. McGovern Children's Zoo at the Houston Zoo. She is working on the Baker Monument Commons in Sesquicentennial Park, which will be dedicated in October. Houston Chronicle business reporter David Kaplan talked to Griffith about the landscape architecture business. Exc...

Houston Zoo Golf Carts Get Sunny
The Houston Zoo is now the owner of 7 golf carts, retrofitted to use the power of the sun. Zoo staff got help with the green upgrade from a volunteer solar...

Vet returns to job at zoo
Shirley Llizo joined the zoo's staff as its sole veterinarian in 2006. She previously had served at a Houston zoo. Llizo was fired in October after a U.S. Department of Agriculture annual review of the zoo faulted the facility and its vet for keeping expired medications in its pharmacy and emergency...