Denver Zoo

Think Mommy Dearest was tough? Consider these divas of the animal world

And you thought you had it bad when your mom said, "No cookies until after dinner"...at least your mother didn't devour her young! According to Brian Aucone, vice president for animal care at the Denver Zoo, a wide variety of animals have been documented killing and occasionally cannibalizing their ... More >>

Unity in the ’Hood

Reader: RIP, Mimi -- my daughter fell in love with elephants because of you

Mimi the elephant passed away at the Denver Zoo last week, without getting to really appreciate her new home in the Toyota Elephant Passage, which opened just over four months ago. Mimi had been at the zoo since 1961; she was a gift from Helen Bonfils, owner of the Denver Post. Zookeepers estimated ... More >>

Denver Zoo: Mimi the elephant, her health failing, enters hospice care

Mimi the elephant is in the twilight of her elephant life. Zookeepers' best guess is that she's 53 years old, which easily makes her the oldest Asian elephant at the Denver Zoo and means she's surpassed the average elephant life span of about 44 years old. As such, Mimi has normal old-elephant probl ... More >>

Photos: Snow, polar bear made famous in Denver, dies in Tucson zoo

Circa the mid-1990s, there were no bigger stars in Denver than Klondike and Snow, a pair of polar bears at the Denver Zoo, where they were born and raised after their mom abandoned them. The pair were eventually moved to other facilities, with Snow winding up at Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, where she d ... More >>

Noah Van Sciver goes to the Denver Zoo

Editor's note: Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver paints the town like nobody else, as demonstrated in his recaps of visits to the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, our own Artopia, MCA Denver and StarFest 2012. (Make sure you read Noah's blog for more comics and wondermen ... More >>

Tapir escaper at the Denver Zoo! Keepers return animal within minutes

Ten acres of habitat just wasn't enough for Rinny the tapir. This morning, the 800-pound black-and-white mammal briefly escaped from her new home at the Denver Zoo's brand new exhibit, Toyota Elephant Passage, and went on an adventure to a fenced-in landscape area. Rinny's entire excursion lasted ... More >>

Round two with Beau Green, exec chef of the Denver Zoo

Beau Green Denver Zoo 2300 Steele Street www.denverzoo.org Read part one of my interview with Beau Green, exec chef of the Denver Zoo. Most memorable meal you've ever had: Chef Travis Kight -- our corporate chef here at the zoo -- always takes me out to the best/coolest places to eat. During my tr ... More >>

Ten things to do for $10 this weekend, February 3-5, 2012

The mounds of snow aside, there's plenty to do this weekend, whether or not you care about beefy dudes throwing a ball around. Yes, the Super Bowl is happening. But so are a bunch of equally exciting events that will happen despite the blizzard. We've got: A drunken spelling bee, a beatnik's birthda ... More >>

Should Denver Zoo elephants be renamed after Toyota vehicles in light of $5.4 mil donation?

​The Denver Zoo's two lady elephants, Mimi and Dolly, moved yesterday to their new home: the recently rechristened Toyota Elephant Passage exhibit. Formerly called Asian Tropics, the ten-acre, $50 million elephant exhibit was renamed thanks to a $5.4 million donation from the Denver Toyota Dea ... More >>

Denver Zoo's new elephant exhibit renamed Toyota Elephant Passage after $5.4 mil donation

​ Update, 4:15 p.m.: The zoo has announced how much money the seven local Toyota dealerships donated to the newly christened Toyota Elephant Passage exhibit, slated to open in June 2012. The figure? $5.4 million, the zoo's second-largest donation ever. Read on for more details.

Parking meters are free tomorrow (thanks, Veterans Day!), but not overnight

​ Tomorrow is a city holiday, which means legions of city employees won't have to show up to work (with the exception of police and fire folks, Denver Health doctors, airport workers and the animals at the Denver Zoo; what's a giraffe have to do to get a day off around here?). There's a bonus ... More >>

"Silent Disco" at Denver Zoo really hits its stride with Journey's "Small Town Girl"

"Get those hands up!"​Much like pantsless subway rides and flash mobs involving dancing in public places, the phenomenon of the "silent disco" -- wherein dozens of people, mostly White People (sorry fellow crackers, it's true, we're dorks.) -- has come and hung around longer than maybe it shou ... More >>

Denver Zoo death: Of course there's a digitally animated version of the incident

View full video below.​The death of Alonzo Ashley at the Denver Zoo a week ago made headlines around the world for its bizarre circumstances, so naturally a company that specializes in creating CGI animations of news stories has created one about Ashley's death. View it below.

Do at the Zoo last night recap and photos post

Beef carpaccio from Sketch​Hundreds of people converged on the Denver Zoo last night for Do at the Zoo, where they observed the animals -- both four- and two-legged -- and ate amazing food served up by some of Denver's top restaurants. Photos by Kate Levy. View the full Do at the Zoo slideshow ... More >>

Do at the Zoo returns tonight

​Talk a walk on the wild side tonight at Do at the Zoo at the, um, Denver Zoo, 2300 Steele Street. This bash is always one of the major parties of the summer, filled with food samplings, drinks, live music and more. It runs from 7 to 10:30 p.m. and costs $150 to $300; for more info, visit www. ... More >>

Groundhogs and prairie dogs: What happens when five other animals see their shadows

Less consequential than the groundhog, but still.​Everybody knows that, when a groundhog sees its shadow, it means there will be six more weeks of winter; lesser known is that, when a prairie dog sees its shadow, it means there will be a buy-one-get-one-free day at the Denver Zoo on Sunday -- ... More >>

Make Magic at Hammond’s

Denver Zoo: Help its elephant poop dreams come true by voting in the Pepsi Refresh Project

Elephants poop a lot.​ Everybody poops, including elephants -- who produce 200 pounds of the stuff every day. That's the weight of a man. Hear that, kids? An elephant poops out a man every single day. And the Denver Zoo has a plan to turn all that poop into electricity to power its new Asian ... More >>

Bear sex? Horny elephants? Inside Denver Zoo's Singles Safari

Dave Parsons/Denver Zoo​On the agenda for the Denver Zoo's second-ever Singles Safari event this Friday night: horny elephants, polar bear sex, and why big cats like Calvin Klein's Obsession so much. "We wanted to give a different way to interpret animals and talk about animals to this crowd ... More >>

Denver Zoo's Asian Tropics exhibit: No elephants yet, just backhoes

Imagine elephants here.​Apparently, one of the most tricky parts of building a new zoo exhibit is making the fake rocks look real. You know, so they don't distract visitors from the animals and stuff. "You don't want people thinking about that," says George Pond, the Denver Zoo's vice presid ... More >>

Denver Zoo: Which baby animal is the cutest?!?

Dave Parsons/Denver ZooI iz kewt?​ The cuteness overflow-eth at the Denver Zoo. This week, the zoo posted photos of its newest baby animals: four Amur tiger cubs born last month. To the surprise of no one with eyes and a heart, the cubs are effing adorable. But are they the cutest babies the ... More >>

Peacocks are nothing. Here's five other ways your kid can suffer an injury at the Denver Zoo

Stand back.​There's nothing worse than the phone call a dad or mom gets from school or camp letting them know that their kid has been hurt on a field trip or during an activity. It can turn your stomach to mush and make the hairs on your back stand up straight. Sort of like the feathers on th ... More >>

Meet Denver's newest, cutest baby!!!!!!

Dave Parsons/Denver ZooKanani is adorable. And she knows it. Or at least she will after reading this blog.​ Don't try to fight it: Baby monkeys are the most adorable. Like, six-exclamation-points adorable. Like, OMG!!!!!! THAT BABY MONKEY IS EFFING ADORABLE!!!!!! In light of that proven fact, ... More >>

Carmelo Anthony and son (not) mauled by lion at the Denver Zoo

Photo from I Am La LaCarmelo Anthony and his son, Kiyan, meet a lion at the Denver Zoo​Denver Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony took his two-year-old son, Kiyan, to get up-close-and-personal with some wild beasts at the Denver Zoo last month, prompting his fiance, former MTV VJ La La Vasquez, to wo ... More >>

Video: Watching Denver Zoo patrons watch penguins watch light move on a wall

What do you get when you mix penguins at the Denver Zoo, a beam of light reflected off someone's watch and Labor Day weekend boredom? Hours and hours of wholesome, family entertainment, that's what!

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Today's featured events: Hear animal cracks and other funny stuff at the Denver Zoo

​He's an animal, that Adam Cayton-Holland. Therefore, the hyphenated one will fit right in tonight, when he headlines this year's Denver Zoo Comedy Night, which benefits several environmental and wildlife conservation agencies, including the Orangutan Conservancy, Madagascar Faunal Group, Wild ... More >>

Animal Magnetism

The dating scene can feel like a zoo. Tonight, it is.

Caution: A herd of bull elephants is coming to the Denver Zoo

Party animals at Do at the Zoo

Nancy LevineIt's a jungle out there! Charlie Master in the Sketch booth. The Denver Zoo hosted its twentieth annual Do at the Zoo last night, and Denver's party animals were out in force, sampling tidbits from dozens of restaurants and getting wild! See for yourself on our slideshow.

The Denver Zoo asks: I can haz Valentinez Dey card?

Cute cats rule the Internet, as documented in the February 10 Salon.com article "The Internet Is Made of Kittens." And in the hierarchy of kitty-cuteness-overload, the LOLCATS reign supreme, mostly because the combination of furry adorableness and cheeky spelling mistakes is enough to turn the world ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, February 13 issue

Having a nice day, all you triskaidekaphobics? Today in Backbeat Online: • Aviano Coffee debuts anything-goes open mike tomorrow. • Fort Collins set to debut all-local music fest in April. • Spoke-In-Wordz debuts new single on iTunes, Amazon. Today in Cafe Society: • 231 Milwaukee back o ... More >>

Lights, Tigers and Bears, Oh My!

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The Week in Fashion: June 21 Through June 26

Snakes Alive

Celebrate St. Patrick at the Denver Zoo.

Ice+Snow Days

Catch the big turn-on at Coors Amphitheatre.

Rule the Yule

Christmas Day has plenty for the restless to unwrap.

Best Place to Get Pooped On

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Best New Animals at the Denver Zoo

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