Mac Enjoying Himself

Mac Our Black Spider Monkey

Mac is our new Black Spider Monkey. He is four months old and loves to stay clinging on to everything and everyone. He love attention and people at all times. A very demanding little fellow. We started introducing  solid foods, but we give him formula for most part. These New World primates are social and gather in groups of up to two or three dozen animals. At night, these groups split up into smaller sleeping parties of a half dozen or fewer. Foraging also occurs in smaller groups, and is usually most intense early in the day. Spider monkeys find food in the treetops and feast on nuts, fruits, leaves, bird eggs, and spiders. They can be noisy animals and often communicate with many calls, screeches, barks, and other sounds.

Typically, females give birth to only a single baby every two to five years. Young monkeys depend completely on their mothers for about ten weeks, but after that time they begin to explore on their own and play amongst themselves. Mothers continue to care for their young for the first year of their lives, and often move about with their offspring clinging to their backs. Feel free to visit his gallery for more pictures.

Jungle Island Exhibit - Miami, FL

Malinka and Leloo

Malinka and Leloo - Crowd Shot

Malinka and Leloo had a wondeful time this Labor Day Weekend at Jungle Island. They thrilled thousands of visitors while interacting with their handlers. The sisters are being invited back to the Jungle real soon. We are very proud to have these girls and look forward to again share them with their growing fan club!

If you are interested in experiencing an up close and personal tour with these magnificent Ligers. Feel free to “Take a walk on the wild side” with our private Zoo Tour packages offered at ZWF.

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”.

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!