Zoo Boise
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Zoo Boise connects our guests with animals to inspire and involve our community in the conservation of wildlife worldwide.
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Time to rise and shine with spotted-necked otter Harry!
📷: Zookeeper Emily from a staff-only area
📷: Zookeeper Emily from a staff-only area
January 6, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Time to rise and shine with spotted-necked otter Harry!
📷: Zookeeper Emily from a staff-only area
📷: Zookeeper Emily from a staff-only area
Ozzy is a prehensile-tailed porcupine. That's all you need to know!
(Visit him at Zoo Boise's newly renovated Small Animal Kingdom.)
📸: Lead zookeeper Taylor S
(Visit him at Zoo Boise's newly renovated Small Animal Kingdom.)
📸: Lead zookeeper Taylor S
January 5, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Ozzy is a prehensile-tailed porcupine. That's all you need to know!
(Visit him at Zoo Boise's newly renovated Small Animal Kingdom.)
📸: Lead zookeeper Taylor S
(Visit him at Zoo Boise's newly renovated Small Animal Kingdom.)
📸: Lead zookeeper Taylor S
Snacking up-close with one-year-old female red panda Rylan!
🎥: Zookeeper Elsa
🎥: Zookeeper Elsa
January 1, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Snacking up-close with one-year-old female red panda Rylan!
🎥: Zookeeper Elsa
🎥: Zookeeper Elsa
Things went swimmingly all year at Zoo Boise! We opened two new exhibits, renovated the rainforest building, began construction on the Education Center, and welcomed several new animals!
Here's to continuing to keep your world wild in 2026 (and beyond).
📷: Magellanic penguins by volunteer Ethan
Here's to continuing to keep your world wild in 2026 (and beyond).
📷: Magellanic penguins by volunteer Ethan
December 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Things went swimmingly all year at Zoo Boise! We opened two new exhibits, renovated the rainforest building, began construction on the Education Center, and welcomed several new animals!
Here's to continuing to keep your world wild in 2026 (and beyond).
📷: Magellanic penguins by volunteer Ethan
Here's to continuing to keep your world wild in 2026 (and beyond).
📷: Magellanic penguins by volunteer Ethan
Relive some of our favorite Zoo Boise animal moments from 2025 in this highlight reel! 🎉
Thank you to everyone who enjoys our content! This connection helps us spread our conservation message, which supports the protection of wild animals and spaces around the world.
Thank you to everyone who enjoys our content! This connection helps us spread our conservation message, which supports the protection of wild animals and spaces around the world.
December 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Relive some of our favorite Zoo Boise animal moments from 2025 in this highlight reel! 🎉
Thank you to everyone who enjoys our content! This connection helps us spread our conservation message, which supports the protection of wild animals and spaces around the world.
Thank you to everyone who enjoys our content! This connection helps us spread our conservation message, which supports the protection of wild animals and spaces around the world.
Welcome to the first Zoo Boise Adopt An Animal plaque awards! All decorative plaques are awesome (and support animal wellbeing), but here are the finalists.
Find out the 2025 artwork winner - as voted by fans and guests earlier this month - in the comments below!
Find out the 2025 artwork winner - as voted by fans and guests earlier this month - in the comments below!
December 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Welcome to the first Zoo Boise Adopt An Animal plaque awards! All decorative plaques are awesome (and support animal wellbeing), but here are the finalists.
Find out the 2025 artwork winner - as voted by fans and guests earlier this month - in the comments below!
Find out the 2025 artwork winner - as voted by fans and guests earlier this month - in the comments below!
Happy Boxing Day from sand cat Nala! 📦
📷: Zookeeper Taylor T
📷: Zookeeper Taylor T
December 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Happy Boxing Day from sand cat Nala! 📦
📷: Zookeeper Taylor T
📷: Zookeeper Taylor T
🎁 Meerkat Bart (with a little 'guidance' from brother Twitch) unwrapped and enjoyed a puzzle enrichment. Items like this challenge zoo animals to use natural instincts in fresh, fun ways!
🎥: Zookeeper Brooke
🎥: Zookeeper Brooke
December 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🎁 Meerkat Bart (with a little 'guidance' from brother Twitch) unwrapped and enjoyed a puzzle enrichment. Items like this challenge zoo animals to use natural instincts in fresh, fun ways!
🎥: Zookeeper Brooke
🎥: Zookeeper Brooke
You probably smell maned wolves before you see 'em. Their strong scent is how they mark territory. Since maned wolves are rather quiet, they often communicate only through this powerful aroma!
📷: Maned wolves Lucas and Marti by zoo chef Brittany
📷: Maned wolves Lucas and Marti by zoo chef Brittany
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
You probably smell maned wolves before you see 'em. Their strong scent is how they mark territory. Since maned wolves are rather quiet, they often communicate only through this powerful aroma!
📷: Maned wolves Lucas and Marti by zoo chef Brittany
📷: Maned wolves Lucas and Marti by zoo chef Brittany
Enrichment is more than just fun. It plays an important and stimulating role in animal care.
Check out our olive baboon troop finding part of their morning meals within block castles!
Check out our olive baboon troop finding part of their morning meals within block castles!
December 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Enrichment is more than just fun. It plays an important and stimulating role in animal care.
Check out our olive baboon troop finding part of their morning meals within block castles!
Check out our olive baboon troop finding part of their morning meals within block castles!
Kinkajou Chewie enjoying his honey ice cube enrichment!
🎥: Zookeeper Murphy
🎥: Zookeeper Murphy
December 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Kinkajou Chewie enjoying his honey ice cube enrichment!
🎥: Zookeeper Murphy
🎥: Zookeeper Murphy
The prehensile-tailed skink 'smells' with its tongue. 😛
We got up-close with skink Clarence as he flicked his tongue to gather scents. Then he touched his tongue on the roof of his mouth to take in the smells.
📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S
We got up-close with skink Clarence as he flicked his tongue to gather scents. Then he touched his tongue on the roof of his mouth to take in the smells.
📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S
December 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The prehensile-tailed skink 'smells' with its tongue. 😛
We got up-close with skink Clarence as he flicked his tongue to gather scents. Then he touched his tongue on the roof of his mouth to take in the smells.
📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S
We got up-close with skink Clarence as he flicked his tongue to gather scents. Then he touched his tongue on the roof of his mouth to take in the smells.
📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S
New animal announcement coming soon...
December 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
New animal announcement coming soon...
Is Fletcher listening intently or just waking up!?
Bat-eared foxes, like Fletcher at Zoo Boise, can hear a single insect crawling or burrowing up to a foot underground thanks to their five-inch-long ears!
📷: Zookeeper Murphy
Bat-eared foxes, like Fletcher at Zoo Boise, can hear a single insect crawling or burrowing up to a foot underground thanks to their five-inch-long ears!
📷: Zookeeper Murphy
December 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Is Fletcher listening intently or just waking up!?
Bat-eared foxes, like Fletcher at Zoo Boise, can hear a single insect crawling or burrowing up to a foot underground thanks to their five-inch-long ears!
📷: Zookeeper Murphy
Bat-eared foxes, like Fletcher at Zoo Boise, can hear a single insect crawling or burrowing up to a foot underground thanks to their five-inch-long ears!
📷: Zookeeper Murphy
Exploring with Ozzy!
Since moving into his new Small Animal Kingdom home earlier this fall, our prehensile-tailed porcupine has found favorite spots to sleep, eat, exercise, and relax.
🎥: Zookeeper Elsa
Since moving into his new Small Animal Kingdom home earlier this fall, our prehensile-tailed porcupine has found favorite spots to sleep, eat, exercise, and relax.
🎥: Zookeeper Elsa
December 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Exploring with Ozzy!
Since moving into his new Small Animal Kingdom home earlier this fall, our prehensile-tailed porcupine has found favorite spots to sleep, eat, exercise, and relax.
🎥: Zookeeper Elsa
Since moving into his new Small Animal Kingdom home earlier this fall, our prehensile-tailed porcupine has found favorite spots to sleep, eat, exercise, and relax.
🎥: Zookeeper Elsa
Monkey or ape??
One easy tip to spot the difference between primates is to look for a tail. Most monkeys have tails, but apes - including gibbons - do not have visible tails.
📷: White-handed gibbon Euhl (a.k.a. Papa Gibbon)
One easy tip to spot the difference between primates is to look for a tail. Most monkeys have tails, but apes - including gibbons - do not have visible tails.
📷: White-handed gibbon Euhl (a.k.a. Papa Gibbon)
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Monkey or ape??
One easy tip to spot the difference between primates is to look for a tail. Most monkeys have tails, but apes - including gibbons - do not have visible tails.
📷: White-handed gibbon Euhl (a.k.a. Papa Gibbon)
One easy tip to spot the difference between primates is to look for a tail. Most monkeys have tails, but apes - including gibbons - do not have visible tails.
📷: White-handed gibbon Euhl (a.k.a. Papa Gibbon)
It's red panda breakfast time!
Hey Stevie, you've got a lil' something right there... 😋
🎥: Zookeeper Elsa
Hey Stevie, you've got a lil' something right there... 😋
🎥: Zookeeper Elsa
December 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
It's red panda breakfast time!
Hey Stevie, you've got a lil' something right there... 😋
🎥: Zookeeper Elsa
Hey Stevie, you've got a lil' something right there... 😋
🎥: Zookeeper Elsa
Hey Paji! 👋
Did you know: A sloth bear can fully close its nostrils when sniffing around ant hills and termite mounds. This helps make sure the bear doesn't suck up dirt or get insects crawling up its nose!
📷: Female sloth bear by lead zookeeper Taylor S
Did you know: A sloth bear can fully close its nostrils when sniffing around ant hills and termite mounds. This helps make sure the bear doesn't suck up dirt or get insects crawling up its nose!
📷: Female sloth bear by lead zookeeper Taylor S
December 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Hey Paji! 👋
Did you know: A sloth bear can fully close its nostrils when sniffing around ant hills and termite mounds. This helps make sure the bear doesn't suck up dirt or get insects crawling up its nose!
📷: Female sloth bear by lead zookeeper Taylor S
Did you know: A sloth bear can fully close its nostrils when sniffing around ant hills and termite mounds. This helps make sure the bear doesn't suck up dirt or get insects crawling up its nose!
📷: Female sloth bear by lead zookeeper Taylor S
Meet famed hornbill Toogle!
Long eyelashes, booming call, winning personality, viral videos… he’s got it all. Now he deserves a new Zoo Boise habitat.
With your help on 'Giving ZOOday', Toogle will get his own suite in the new Education Campus for all to enjoy his antics.
zooboise.org/zooday
Long eyelashes, booming call, winning personality, viral videos… he’s got it all. Now he deserves a new Zoo Boise habitat.
With your help on 'Giving ZOOday', Toogle will get his own suite in the new Education Campus for all to enjoy his antics.
zooboise.org/zooday
December 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Meet famed hornbill Toogle!
Long eyelashes, booming call, winning personality, viral videos… he’s got it all. Now he deserves a new Zoo Boise habitat.
With your help on 'Giving ZOOday', Toogle will get his own suite in the new Education Campus for all to enjoy his antics.
zooboise.org/zooday
Long eyelashes, booming call, winning personality, viral videos… he’s got it all. Now he deserves a new Zoo Boise habitat.
With your help on 'Giving ZOOday', Toogle will get his own suite in the new Education Campus for all to enjoy his antics.
zooboise.org/zooday
Rolling into the office after a long holiday weekend like...
📷: Red panda Jasper by lead zookeeper Taylor S
📷: Red panda Jasper by lead zookeeper Taylor S
December 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Rolling into the office after a long holiday weekend like...
📷: Red panda Jasper by lead zookeeper Taylor S
📷: Red panda Jasper by lead zookeeper Taylor S
Happy Thanksgiving from all of your wild friends at Zoo Boise! 🍂🥧
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from all of your wild friends at Zoo Boise! 🍂🥧
We’re excited to welcome a new bat-eared fox to Zoo Boise! Fern, a six-month-old female, joins male Fletcher in their African Plains home.
📷: Zookeeper Emily
📷: Zookeeper Emily
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We’re excited to welcome a new bat-eared fox to Zoo Boise! Fern, a six-month-old female, joins male Fletcher in their African Plains home.
📷: Zookeeper Emily
📷: Zookeeper Emily
The coolest cat we know: Akasha. Also, the biggest cat we know!
📷: Amur tiger by lead zookeeper Taylor S
📷: Amur tiger by lead zookeeper Taylor S
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The coolest cat we know: Akasha. Also, the biggest cat we know!
📷: Amur tiger by lead zookeeper Taylor S
📷: Amur tiger by lead zookeeper Taylor S
Orange teeth?! Yes, porcupines like Ozzy have orange or reddish smiles because their teeth are coated by iron-rich enamel, not white enamel like humans. A porcupine’s front teeth also continuously grow, only naturally worn down by gnawing.
📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S
📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Orange teeth?! Yes, porcupines like Ozzy have orange or reddish smiles because their teeth are coated by iron-rich enamel, not white enamel like humans. A porcupine’s front teeth also continuously grow, only naturally worn down by gnawing.
📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S
📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S
Ahsoka is having a blast carrying, kicking, rolling, and dragging her favorite ball around in a bag!
🎥: Female lion's enrichment by zookeeper Murphy
🎥: Female lion's enrichment by zookeeper Murphy
November 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Ahsoka is having a blast carrying, kicking, rolling, and dragging her favorite ball around in a bag!
🎥: Female lion's enrichment by zookeeper Murphy
🎥: Female lion's enrichment by zookeeper Murphy