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SAFARI PATY at Brauser Miamonodies Academy

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Aladdin - Dromedary Camel and Maria - Catalina Macaw

Aladdin - Dromedary Camel and Maria - Catalina Macaw

Brauser Miamonodies Academy hosted a Safari party for parents, teachers, friends and students attending.  Zoological Wildlife Foundation was asked to host the event with our exotic wildlife and trained handlers. Aladdin our Dromedary Camel, Sativia our White-handed gibbon, Angelina and Donattela our Tufted Capuchins,  Javi our Red Ruff Lemur, Maria the Catalina Macaw and Rachel our African Milky Eagle Owl were part of the animal actors that attended the Safari party. Please feel free to check our gallery for more pictures.

Exotic Animal Model Shoot - Professional Photography Production

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010


The Zoological Wildlife Foundation offers services for models that are looking to take pictures with exotic wildlife on site or off location. Zooological Wildlife Foundation provides the animals as well as trained handlers to your next photo shoot, for any type of occasion. Visit our website to find out about services and rates. Check out our gallery  of our mass collection of photographs.

Francois Our New Baby Born Cinnamon White Faced Capuchin

Sunday, October 24th, 2010
Francois our New Born Capuchin

Francois our New Born Capuchin

Cinnamon White-Faced Capuchin

Cinnamon White-Faced Capuchin

Francois with his mother

Francois with his mother

We have blessed to have a new addition Francois our Cinnamon White-Faced Capuchin to our growing colony of White-Faced Capuchin. Angelo was our first cinnamon capuchin monkey. Now Angelo is a father. Angelo our cinnamon breed with a regular white-faced capuchin (black and white) and the offspring came Francois our new cinnamon white-faced capuchin. He was 11 days old when he was pulled from his mother to have special hands-on care from our staff and be watched around the clock to view his continuous health and growth.. By taking advantage of our Zoo Tour “Take A Walk on The Wild Side” you will be able to experience our array of collection of wildlife first hand up close and personal. To view more pictures visit Francois’s Gallery

Our Bengal Tigers Habitat

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
Bengal Tiger at ZWF

Bengal Tiger at ZWF

Inside the Tiger Habitat

Inside the Tiger Habitat

Our Bengal Tigers are now between three to four years of age and reaching sexual maturity. They are between 350 to 500 pounds depending on the individual. They each consume 70 to 100 pounds of meat or chicken each week. With one day of fasting. They love to swim in their pool, play with the bowling balls, chase and wrestle with each other. You can hear their roar, chuff, hisses, snarfs and growling sounds throughout the property.

Our tigers are intact we do not believe in housing any animal that is altered. Today there more tigers in captivity than in the wild. Due to deforestation, hunting for their meat and their illegal demand as trophies!

We offer tours of our facility by appointment only. Where you will get an up close and personal experience within very safe boundaries. Our trained staff accompany our visitors at all times. Feel free to check out our tiger habitat gallery for updates on them.

LUNA and CLIFF HAVING FUN!

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
Luna and Cliff

Luna and Cliff

 

Meet Luna, our Bonnet Macaque and Cliff, a White Faced Capuchin. They have been raised together since tiny babies along with Diana, our adorable Tufted Capuchin. They love each other`s company. Luna just was introduced to solid food. While Cliff still drinks his bottle. He is such a baby! They spend hours each day playing with their bright colored toys and blankets.

We spend hours on a regular basis cleaning cages, toys, blankets, preparing food, bottle feeding, bathing and interacting with our babies. It is part of our daily routine at ZWF. We enjoy the special bond and interaction with our primates. Part of our volunteer program is to have that same interaction and enrichment for our primates. We strive to do the very best for our non-human family memebers at ZWF.

Joey On His First Birthday

Sunday, August 8th, 2010
Joey Hanging Out

Joey Hanging Out

Joey Playing In His Enclousure
Joey Playing In His Enclousure

We wanted to keep an update on Joey who just turned one year old on July, 7th 2010. Valerie Egue, has had Joey, a Brazilian Tufted Capuchin for five months in her care. She tryly loves and enjoys every minute of this amazing animal and wants to share her thoughts and experiences raising him with us.

Valerie’s Quotes: Primates present many chanllenges specially while living indoors; repetition and proper discipline goes along way I have learned. Joey is much like a child in a sense that everything he sees, he feels is righfully his and if it’s in his hands it goes directly to the mouth next. However, he will never grow out this two year old behavior. It requires much time in preparing his food which consists of various fruits, vegetables along with monkey chow and Zupreem primate diet. Changing diapers every four hours and most important play time. Although raising Joey, is not an easy task that my whole family enjoyes partaking in. He is a pleasure to be around especially after his afternoon naps. Always surprising us with new tricks or knowledge he has gained.  His favorite thing to do is wrestling with his friend Scrappy (three month old kitten). We consider him a family member which we can not picture ourselves without. Raising a primate is not always as rewarding as we picture it to be. There is load of sacrificed time and effort that goes into molding your primate into a well behaved animals and even then there is set backs as they are wild animals, however, overall the knowledge and experience of raisin Joey, is something I would do all over over without thought. “My passion has always been working with capuchin monkeys, therefore, working along side with him has been nothing but a dream come true”.

ZWF is doing a NEW MIAMI SUBS LOCATION!

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Come have some fun at Miami Subs Grill while ZWF brings some wildlife for you to see upclose and personal! We will be having photo sessions and merch available, and the greatest part about it is that it’s all going towards a great cause! REMINDER: THIS ZWF EVENT WILL BE AT A NEW MIAMI SUBS LOCATION ( 2501 S.W. 87TH AVE.) so come check us out and have some summertime fun with some amazing animals!

Baby Tamanduas @ ZWF!

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Here are some new additions to ZWF! These baby Tamanduas will just melt your heart. The staff here will be working with them so that later on, we will be able to use them for educational presentation and teach people about these beautiful creatures. If you want to take a closer peak, then why not head over to ZWF for a private tour! To see more photos of these gorgeous Tams then check out the Tamandua gallery.

ZWF does events!

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

Do you have a favorite animal that you would love to interact with? Maybe you would like to have an education presentation to learn about some interesting animals that are vanishing in the wild! Whatever the case may be, ZWF would like you to know, that we do events! All the staff work extra hard to make sure each animal is taken care of an can be interacted with too. Check out this video that was recently posted on Thrillist.com about just a few of ZWF’s furry characters!

To see ZWF’s VIDEO FROM THRILLIST.COM click this link –> Zoological Wildlife Foundation

What do you do when it’s too hot outside?

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Swim with a buddy! In this case it was Titan our tiger!



We recently  put Titan in the pool for the first time, so that he can get used to swimming, and it was a very hot day here so it was a little treat for him to cool off! At first, Titan was a little cautious, and wanted nothing to do with the pool, but then as we got in and started splashing the water it really drew his attention over and he wanted to play with the water, after a little love and guidance, we gave him a little tug, and Titan was in the water! The minute he got in he LOVED it! Titan started swimming around, jumping off the steps so he can swim towards us, and at one point he even went to the deeper side with me, while he was swimming right behind me. We were so proud of Titan. Now that Titan is used to the water, we will be doing this on a usual basis. It’s great exercise too! To see all the photos from Titans swimming adventure then click here to see us swimming with the tiger!