Bengal Tiger at ZWF

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

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 Hanging Out

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”.

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!

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.

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

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!

Everyone meet CHOMP!

CHOMP is an Alligator Snapping Turtle, he is a new arrival, and enjoying his time being spent at ZWF. The reason why we named him CHOMP, is well, you guessed it! He chomps! Alligator Snapping Turtles have an incredible bite force and they can literally bite your finger right off! If you would like to see this magnificent creature up close and personal, then stop by for a tour here at ZWF.

Meet our newest memebers! The Zoological Wildlife Foundation just got some Hairy Armadillos in! These guys are pretty funny. During they day they burrow around, and when taking their usual nap they sleep upside down! If you would like to see them upclose come by for a tour at The Zoological Wildlife Foundation, and you won’t be dissapointed! Thanks for reading!

Priscilla Jayne is a beautiful singer that had her recent video shoot right here at our facility! She enjoyed the animals and thanked us for the usage of our tiger and facility for her video shoot. ZWF would like to thank Priscilla for letting us be a part of her video. Best of luck to you Priscilla! If you would like to see some photos from her shoot click here for Priscilla Jayne’s gallery.