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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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Montgomery Zoo's Bongo Herd is Growing

Zoo adds three new Bongo to their African hoofstock collection

Post Date:July 30, 2019 11:22 AM

Montgomery Zoo Introduces Three New Bongo to its African Hoofstock Exhibit

The Montgomery Zoo and Mann Wildlife Learning Museum is excited to announce the addition of three new Bongo to the African hoofstock herd. A female calf, Juni, born May 16, 2019 to Gertty, another adult female, Heidi and a juvenile male, Naveen. Heidi and Naveen just arrived at the Montgomery Zoo from the Greater Richmond Zoo. Juni is Gertty’s second calf and the second born at the Montgomery Zoo in two years.

The press and public are invited to join the Zoo in celebrating the debut of these new animals on Thursday, July 18, 2019, 10:00 a.m. at the African Realm observation deck between the Elephants and Cheetahs. Following Thursday’s introduction to the public the Bongos will be on display every other day depending on weather conditions and animal husbandry needs.

About Bongos

Bongos (Tragelaphus eurycerus) are large, heavy-bodied antelope with short and glossy, orange or chestnut colored coats that is darker on the underside and patterned with vertical white stripes are found inhabiting the dense forests of Eastern, Western and Central Africa. They are the largest forest-dwelling antelope species and one of the most distinctive, with long horns that spiral as high as 35 inches in males. Bongos are herbivorous mammals, meaning they only feed on plants roots, bark and grasses and generally eat under the cover of night to keep them safe from predators. Although they tend to be most active between dusk and dawn, Bongos are known to occasionally browse during the day but will never leave the dense vegetation that surrounds them. To help them to cool down in the heat, Bongos wallow in mud which they then rub onto a tree as a way of polishing their smooth and heavy horns.

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