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Recycle at the Montgomery Zoo

During your next visit to the Montgomery Zoo, Please deposit your empty plastic bottles and aluminum cans in the BLUE RECYCLE BINS located at the
-- Front Gate Gift Shop (as you exit the Zoo)
-- Admission area (as you enter the Zoo)
-- Mann Museum
-- Overlook Cafe
-- North America section, near the Bald Eagle exhibit
-- Africa section, near hoofstock and siamangs
-- Playground

Help the Montgomery Zoo save the planet one bottle and can at a time. These recyclable items are donated to RePower South to better help our community and the environment.

Thank you for your participation and effort to recycle. Brought to you by the Montgomery Zoo Conservation Committee.

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Montgomery Zoo maps go digital

In an effort to reduce paper use, save trees, and reduce litter on the Zoo grounds, we are going digital with our Zoo map. Simply scan the QR codes provided throughout the Zoo, and use your phone to navigate throughout the Zoo and Museum.

By going digital, this also allows to communicate more up-to-date animal, exhibit, and attraction information. It is a win-win for both our guests and the environment.

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Plastic-free packaging and reduction of bags

Our Zoo Gift Shop has done a great job of reducing the amount of plastic that enters our nation's landfills daily. If you have noticed, all the toy packages no longer have plastic. This a huge win for the environment and for animals throughout the world.

Also, our Gift Shop has stopped using plastic bags. They have converted to no-bag policy; however, if you more than $30 guest receive a complimentary cloth bag sporting the Montgomery Zoo logo.

These are just a few and simple ways we are recycling, reducing, and repurposing items here at the Montgomery Zoo.

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Andean Condors Move to New Habitat at the Montgomery Zoo

Post Date:July 30, 2019

Andean Condors Move to New Habitat at the Montgomery Zoo

The Montgomery Zoo and Mann Wildlife Learning Museum is excited to announce that the Andean Condors have moved to a new exhibit in the South American realm. Their new home will be located near the front entrance and Monkey Island.

Calling the Montgomery Zoo home since 1987, the two Andean Condors are growing more and more comfortable to the new, much larger, exhibit that contains features from their native habitat such as a water fall, trees, rocks, as well as, two nesting boxes.

About the Andean Condor

Andean condors (vulture gryphus) are massive birds, among the largest in the world that are able to fly. These birds prefer to live in windy areas where they can glide on air currents with little effort. They can weigh up to 33 pounds and have an enormous 10-foot wingspan and need the air currents to keep them aloft. Andean condors are found in mountainous regions, but also live near coasts replete with ocean breezes and even deserts that feature strong thermal air currents.

Condors are mostly black, but males have a distinctive white “collar” around their necks and some white markings on their wings as well. Like their relatives, the California condors, Andean condors have bald heads.

Condors are vultures and prefer to feast on the carcasses of large animals, which provide an important function as a natural clean-up crew. Condors have survived over 75 years in captivity. A mating pair produces only a single offspring every other year, and both parents must care for their young for a full year. Their population, in the wild, continues to decrease and they are listed as a threatened species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.

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