Carolina poses with Titan (Bengal Tiger)

Carolina poses with Sativa (White-handed Gibbon)

Carolina had her first day view modeling photo shoot with different exotics animals at ZWF. Titan our amazing Bengal Tiger and Sativa a White-Handed Gibbon.

For your next professional model photo shoot contact ZWF. We have an array collection of exotic animals for you to select from.

If you would like to see some photos from her shoot click Model Photo Shoots Gallery.

Shower Time For Luna

Luna Eating Her Banana

Luna is our female Bonnet Macaque. She is three in half month old. She loves her shower time and pacifier. We started her diet with banana for the very first time, with a bottle of formula milk every four hours and soon will start eating solid foods.

The Bonnet Macaque has a very wide range of gestures and behavior which can be easily differentiated.  They do a lot of “Lip smacking” is one of the most common behavior, where one individual may open and close the mouth in rapid movement with tongue in between teeth and lips pressing against each other giving an audible sound.

She is a cutie and we enjoy every minute of her company. You are welcome to check out Luna’s Album for more pictures of her different expressions.

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”.

Toby is an 8 week old Mountain Coati! Toby is still on the bottle, and is very intelligent! He loves to play with his buddy Zoey, the South American Coatimundi. They get new toys every week and old toys are rotated around so they never get bored! to see more photos of both of the baby coatis then check out our Coatimundi album page!

ZWF attended a grand opening of “Off The Hookah” on July 15th and an anniversary party for another “Off The Hookah” location on July 16th! There was belly dancers, music, dancing, people in Egyptian clothes, and much more! We brought along two of our camels, and everyone loved them! There was many photos taken, and the camels did great! Too see more photos from both of our events, then visit our Off The Hookah (West Palm Beach) Album and our Off The Hookah (Ft. Lauderdale) Album!

ZWF has so many cute and cuddly baby animals this year! One of our newest arrivals is little baby Aladdin the Dromedary Camel! Aladdin just loves human interaction and attention. If you go in his enclosure he will follow you around and nudge you too! If you would like to see more photos of Aladdin, then visit our Dromedary Camel Album, with some photos of Aladdin and one of our other camels “Larry”!

This Miami Subs Event, unfortunately was a “WASH OUT!”
That didn’t stop us from enjoying ourselves and having fun! We made sure the animals were first put away safely, before we decided to pack up and head home which was a very challenging task to accomplish with gusts of wind and pouring rain!

ZWF welcomes Norman the Limousin Steer!

There isn’t a lot of information on Limousin Cattle, but one thing is certain, these animals get extremely HUGE! Norman is loving the time he is spending at ZWF, he roams around the facility very happily, and LOVES attention from humans. Keep checking back to watch Norman grow to his fullest potential, or just schedule a tour and visit him here at ZWF!