Dateline: April 12, 2024. Rossifari Zoo News is back with a round up of the latest news in the world of zoos, aquariums, conservation, and animal weirdness!  Our Headline Story of the Week is actually a personal story about Logan, a dog I briefly fostered. Bring tissues. We start with our births for the week, which include exciting additions at The London Zoo, Hamerton Zoo Park, The Metro Richmond Zoo, Potawatomi Zoo, the Denver Zoo, the Akron Zoo, Zoo Tampa, the Memphis Zoo, Zoo Atlanta, and more! We say goodbye to some beloved animals headlined by two wonderful red pandas, Tilly and ..read more

Today, the Safari heads to Asheville, NC, for our first visit to the WNC Nature Center! This is a special facility that I've been excited to visit for a LONG time, and I'm so grateful to finally have gotten there. Today, I bring you my interview with Tori Duval, who has an incredible story about creating a program at the zoo and helping to grow it into an incredibly successful...and unique...conservation education program. Of course, we also talk about red pandas!  EPISODE LINKS:  wildlifewnc.org  @wncnaturecenter  ROSSIFARI LINKS:  patreon.com/rossifari  @rossi ..read more

Dateline: April 5, 2024. Rossifari Zoo News is back with a round up of the latest news in the world of zoos, aquariums, conservation, and animal weirdness!   Our Headline Story of the Week is a deep dive into AI art, animals, and the temptation of zoos and other conservation organizations to start using this art...and what I think about that. We say goodbye to some beloved animals headlined by Luna, the oldest red panda in North America, known as the queen of red pandas. We also say goodbye to animals at Lincoln Park Zoo, the Louisville Zoo, the North Carolina Zoo, and Zoo Boise. We th ..read more

Dateline: March 29, 2024. Rossifari Zoo News is back with a round up of the latest news in the world of zoos, aquariums, conservation, and animal weirdness!   Our Headline Story of the Week is a deep look at the necropsy of Flaco the owl.  We then move on to our births for the week, which include a cotton top tamarin at Altina Wildlife Park, a sloth at Brevard Zoo, a Eurasian Eagle Owl at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, a lemur at the Duke Lemur Center, a very rare animal born at the Nashville Zoo, a log developing a small lump on it at ZooMiami, and more!  We say goodbye ..read more

Dateline: March 22, 2024. Rossifari Zoo News is back with a round up of the latest news in the world of zoos, aquariums, conservation, and animal weirdness!   Our Headline Story of the Week is the release of the USA Today Top 10 lists for Best Zoo, Best Zoo Exhibit, and Best Safari Park! We then get back on track with our births and deaths. We have a whole bunch to cover, including a new okapi at the Dallas Zoo, twin blue eyed black lemurs at the Little Rock Zoo, two pelicans born at the Phoenix Zoo, a new baboon at the Oakland Zoo, a kiwi chick born at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, a ..read more

Today, the Safari connects with two other podcasters filling different zoological niches with their podcasts: Chris Jenkins, the co-host of NEI's Tec Talk Podcast, which focuses on behavior and training, and Elizabeth Johnson, the host of Mothering Wildlife, which focuses on being a zoo mom or mother in other wildlife jobs! We talk all about our process, what inspired us to start the podcast, what having fans is like, our approach to guests, our process and gear used...it's a lot of fun chatting and comparing and contrasting our individual experiences!  Make sure you subscribe to MOTHERI ..read more

Dateline: March 15, 2024.  Today, Rossifari Zoo News is taking a look at three stories about times when something went wrong at a zoo. This isn't a discussion of what went wrong, but instead a look at what transparency should, and shouldn't, look like. I delve into social media, press releases, and more. For this episode, we look at the recent viral video of the silverback at the Fort Worth Zoo that got in with his keepers, discuss an incident involving a Komodo dragon at the Akron Zoo, and talk about a story that has crept back into the media recently that happened at Beardsley Zoo last ..read more

Dateline: March 8, 2024. Rossifari Zoo News is back with a round up of the latest news in the world of zoos, aquariums, conservation, and animal weirdness!   We yet again open with a big headline, this time diving into the announcement that Miami Seaquarium is being evicted. We then get back on track with our births and deaths. Births include emperor tamarin babies at the Dallas Zoo, fat tailed dunnarts at the Adelaide Zoo, chameleons at Fort Worth Zoo, some new North American river otters at the Edmonton Vally Zoo, a new elephant at the Toledo Zoo, and a porcupine at Zoo New England! W ..read more

Today, the Safari heads back to the Greensboro Science Center, but it's only a detour as we are hopping a plane with Kelly Rauch and Jen Danford to learn all about their experience doing a Red Panda Network Eco Trip to Nepal! What was the travel like? What was the food like? Most importantly, did they see any wild red pandas? Tune in to find out, plus you'll get an update on our favorite red pandas that live at the Science Center!  EPISODE LINKS:  @greensborosciencecenter  @redpandanetwork  redpandanetwork.org  greensborosciencecenter.org  ROSSIFARI LINKS:  ..read more

Dateline: March 1, 2024. Rossifari Zoo News is back with a round up of the latest news in the world of zoos, aquariums, conservation, and animal weirdness!   We yet again open with a big headline, this time my thoughts about Flaco the owl.  We then get back on track with our births and deaths. We say hello to colobus monkeys at the Los Angeles Zoo and Fort Worth Zoo, three new penguins at Adventure Aquarium, two meerkats at the Living Desert, a new rhino at the Indianapolis Zoo, and a very important gray seal pup at Brookfield Zoo. We then say goodbye to Mr. Z the zebra and a femal ..read more