Meet Rocko! One of the few new arrivals to ZWF! Rocko is a Bernese Mountain Dog. He currently shares his space with a tiger cub named Namah! Photos of Namah the new Tiger Cub will be coming shortly.

Butch, our Caucasian Mountain Dog, decided to roll around in the dirt today after his bath! We let him enjoy the dirt for a little before we dragged him off to be bathed again. Let’s see how long his clean fur will last before he goes to the dirt once again!

Now isn’t this an odd animal pair! Here we have one of our lion cubs, playing with our baby mini dachshund! They play together most of the day, both of the lion cubs and our little dachshund. It’s nice to see different animal species getting along together! Although they play together for now, it should be known that when the cubs grow a little larger, unfortunately they will not be able to play together anymore, but in the meantime its a very cute thing to see! To view more photos of our lion cubs then visit Abu & Simba’s Gallery. If you’d like to see them in person, then wny not take a private tour at our facility!? We do tours by appointment only and you can view our different packages on our tours page.

On January 9th 2011, Univision Radio hosted for the community of Miami a Three Kings Parade. Zoological Wildlife Foundation was honored to be a part of the parade on a Jungle float. The Jungle float was featured in the parade filled with exotic wildlife. The animals brought were a Crocodile, Alligator, Parrot, Red-ruffed Lemur, and Monkeys where the apart of the event. To see more pictures of the event please visit our gallery.

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.

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.

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.