A female lion looking forward.

Zoo Boise: the place where anyone can fall in love with wildlife!

Lioness Ahsoka gets it.

📸: Zookeeper Taylor S

Our palm-nut vultures Ilo and Jaydi enjoy relaxing to some tunes! While zookeepers clean the vulture habitat, they turn on some musical enrichment and notice the birds listening along. 🎵

A female sand cat stands on a rock structure.

Caturday come early! We couldn't wait to share this photo of sand cat Nala.

📸: Zookeeper Taylor T

Our cotton-top tamarin family had lots of choices of what to eat today, but the apple peels were the biggest hit worth sharing! 🍎

📹: Zookeeper Brooke

Two white-handed gibbons sit in a wooden box in a zoo habitat.

Family portrait time: Papa Euhl and daughter Li Bao perfectly pose. 🖼️

📸: White-handed gibbons by zookeeper Elsa

New arrival! We’re excited to share that two African Cape porcupines have joined us and can now be found in Zoo's Boise Gorongosa National Park section.

As they settle into this new home, they may take time to adjust. If you’d like to see them, be patient and quiet around their habitat.

There's always time for more Phred.

It's not all for Phred; he was just the first to the buffet while his pals slept in.

We present you with prairie dog Phred really enjoying his salad. 🥗

📹: Zookeeper Taylor T

A female Chinese red panda grasps and eats bamboo while sitting a wooden platform.

Red pandas have adapted to almost exclusively eat bamboo leaves and fruit. But they are actually still classified as carnivores.

📷: Female red panda Rylan by zookeeper Taylor S

A female Amur tiger opens her mouth while resting on a large rock.

A roar or a yawn: How are you starting the week?

📷: Amur tiger Akasha

A male prehensile-tailed porcupine gnaws on a wooden stick while sitting on a branch in a zoo habitat.

Porcupine Ozzy's healthy dental habit: he likes to chew on sticks to help keep his continuously growing teeth in good condition! Not quite like humans flossing after a meal, Ozzy's routine is more like us filing our fingernails.

📷: Prehensile-tailed porcupine by zookeeper Brooke

Red panda Pumori is ready for Easter EGGstravaganza tomorrow at Zoo Boise!

Me with a box painted like an Easter bunny.

Collection of painted festive Easter-themed boxes (rabbits, eggs, etc) that will be placed on Zoo Boise’s exhibits this weekend for animals to find and eat.

Painting a carrot.

I volunteered by painting boxes for @zooboise.bsky.social today. They will be filled with food and placed in the exhibits for wildlife to find.

Kind of an egg hunt for lions and tigers and bears. You can enjoy the feeding (and other festivities) on Saturday at Zoo Boise.

A sitting female olive baboon peers out from a large pipe.

Us avoiding all of these April 1st "announcements". Is it safe to come out yet?

📷: Female olive baboon Cleo by zookeeper Murphy

A male Aldabra tortoise eats lettuce while leaning into a large salad bowl.

Got a napkin? Eating a neat and tidy lunch the Mr. Mac way! 🍽️

📷: Aldabra tortoise by Nicole

Three male meerkats sit on a log.

Our meerkat triplets turned one year old over the weekend! Happy birthday to these playful boys: Bart, Quinn, and Twitch!

A female warthog stands in wet dirt in an outdoor zoo yard.

Dig it! Warthog Makena has 'decorated' her own yard, using her long tusks to dig holes she can relax in. These holes turn into mud pits and are Makena's favorite places to wallow around in and keep cool.

A male white-handed gibbon sits on a tree stump while vocalizing.

📣 Make some noise! What are the odds Papa Gibbon (a.k.a. Euhl) starts singing along with the music during Treefort Music Fest this week?

📷: White-handed gibbon Euhl by volunteer coordinator Julia

A standing male sand cat looks forward.

Happy birthday Simba! Our male sand cat turns seven years old today! 🎉

📷: Zookeeper Taylor S

The Easter Bunny is warming up for Easter EGGstravaganza, presented by Washington Trust Bank, by dropping off special daily enrichment for armadillo Arrow!

A male Steller's sea eagle opens his beak to squawk.

Vlad is one of the most vocal residents at Zoo Boise. Once you hear the Steller's sea eagle let out his deep barking cry, you'll recognize it across the zoo whenever he calls out! 🔊

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Close-up photo of a male giraffe standing in a zoo yard.

This weekend's weather forecast is calling for a 100% chance of fun at Zoo Boise! ☀️🌷

📷: Giraffe Tafari by zoo volunteer Ethan

What are those birds with funky mustaches who live with the penguins?

They are Inca terns, a coastal bird found in Ecuador, Chile, and Peru. Their signature white “mustaches” aren’t just for looks. The length and fullness of these feathers can actually be an indicator of health.

📸: Volunteer Karla

Our meerkat family is preparing for Easter EGGstravaganza - presented by Washington Trust Bank - with some egg-cellent enrichment treats!

A male green tree python wraps around a branch in a zoo habitat.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day! We're feeling lucky today... and every day you help us support conservation and go green for our world! 🍀🍀

📷: Green tree python Stem (a Zoo Boise resident who wears green all of the time!)

A female Chinese red panda eats bamboo leaves while sitting on an elevated perch in an outdoor zoo habitat.

Red panda Stevie started her spring break with a bamboo breakfast.

📷: Zookeeper Elsa

Chillin' with Simba in the newly renovated Small Animal Kingdom! You can find him and Nala at the TLC Foundation Small Cat Hideaway, home to Zoo Boise’s sand cats.

📸: Sand cat Simba by zookeeper Brooke

Our meerkats received a new enrichment item for the first time: bubbles! Watch our playful family curiously interact in their new dayroom.