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Have you ever wondered what happens to the trees and branches OPPD has to cut down because they are too close to power lines? Lately, many of them are coming right here to Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium to help feed our animals.

When an event is called “Night of the Tiger,” you can bet there’s going to be some glamorous drama. And Zoofari 2017 certainly delivered.

Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium’s Director’s Award was established to honor zoo staff who completed projects in 2016 that had a notable positive impact on zoo operations and/or the guest experience; or showed significant costs savings or added tangible value to a process or park operation or animal husbandry in general. While certainly this positive impact relates to our grounds and living inhabitants of our zoo, it may surprise some to learn that it also extends to our stuffed animals – 170,374 of them, to be exact.

Sometimes the hardest thing about getting back into a school-year routine is keeping everyone fed.

This month, students of all ages, pre-K-12, started the 2017-’18 academic year in Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium’s brand new education center.

If you visited Skyfari at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium this summer, you may have noticed having a bit more shade whilst waiting for your ride.

Nothing should stop a family from being able to make their child’s dream come true. 

This Saturday, July 29, is International Tiger Day, and Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium is marking the occasion with the news that they have broken ground on a brand new tiger breeding facility at the Lee G. Simmons Conservation Park and Wildlife Safari, thanks to a very generous gift from one of our donors.

Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium’s newest elephant has arrived, and he’s already a huge hit with the lady elephants.

A company that makes the world more fun seems like a natural fit for the Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium – and it is. Oriental Trading Company, based in Omaha, has been a supporter of the zoo since 2002.

School doesn’t start for another few weeks, but Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium’s gleaming new Education Center is open and already brimming with excitement and learning opportunities.

“Moving a rhino is kind of a big deal,” says Dan Cassidy, general curator of Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium. Thankfully, the zoo already has two Indian rhinos, a male and a female, so instead of having to haul them across states or, worse, continents, the zoo will just have to move them from their current digs to their splendid new home in the Asian Highlands exhibition.