The Zoological Wildlife Foundation Blog

Carolina Day View Modeling With Exotics

Maria — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:42:20 +0000

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.

ZWF STRIVES TO PUT A SMILE ON ALL ITS VISITORS

Maria — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:28:16 +0000

Cathy and Titan

Lauren & Friend Interacting With Diana

Our latest visitors enjoyed a tour of our facility. They interacted with Titan, our one hundred-fourty pound Bengal Tiger. They also interacted with Diana, our Tufted Capuchin born on June 20th.

At ZWF, we hold a strong value for the preservation of wildlife. With this in mind, we have established a private zoo for conservation purposes to educate the public about the fine line we walk everyday keeping endangered animals exisiting in our earth; Which we share with this animals.

Zoological Wildlife Foundation depends on visitors to not only enjoy some breath-taking moments, up close and personal with exotic wildlife, but also for the love and apperication of wildlife.

The Zoological Wildlife Foundation would like you to know that we are NOT a non-profit organization OR are we funded by any agency! Our income does derive from the events we do, tours at our facility, photo sessions we have, and our merchandise too!

THE MANY FACES OF LUNA

Maria — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:29:31 +0000

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.

WHAT A PLEASANT SURPRISE!!!

Maria — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:00:41 +0000

Baby Hairy ArmadillosBaby Hairy Armadillos

One of our long term captive female Hairy Armadillos gave birth on Friday, July 8th, 2010 to two babies males.

They are known for having a leathery armor shell. Our female came from Paraguay. In the wild they live in grasslands, plains and steppelike areas and is an omnivore.

The carapace has eighteen strips, with eight of them being able to move, while the others are bound to each other and immobile.

Our babies have to be one of the cutest things we have had the privilege to see born at our facility.

Joey On His First Birthday

Maria — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:10:06 +0000

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 the Mountain Coati!

Maria — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:28:05 +0000

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!

pharaohs, belly dancers, and camels?

Maria — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:35:10 +0000

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!

Aladdin the Dromedary Camel!

Maria — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:07:17 +0000

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”!

MEET.. “TROUBLE” The African Crested Porcupine!

Maria — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:25:01 +0000

Trouble is our new baby African Crested Porcupine! The reason why we named him trouble speaks for itself. if you get to close to his quills then you will definitely be in TROUBLE! Even though his name is trouble, he is the cutest little thing, very tiny but full of attitude! If you would like to see more photos of trouble, then check out his African Crested Porcupine album.

Outcome of Miami Subs Event

Maria — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:01:56 +0000

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!