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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.

“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.

There’s only a little more than a month left to see Joel Sartore’s arresting photographs of animals...

Most people realize that it takes a lot of humans behind the scenes to keep Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in tip-top form, which is one of the reasons the 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.

Most people realize that it takes a lot of humans behind the scenes to keep Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in tip-top form, which is one of the reasons the 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.

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This year, Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium will have the opportunity to spread the word about conservation to more than two million zoo visitors.

Adventure is in store for Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium visitors this summer, and it’s happening this week!

“It all started with the fact that I got to pet a penguin,” Mary Skowbo says of the support she and her husband, Don, have provided Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium throughout the years.

There’s no question that coral is beautiful, and that we’re all mesmerized by the stunning coral reef exhibits in The Suzanne and Walter Scott Aquarium, but what does it have to do with us in landlocked Nebraska?

“I have two boys, one who just finished first grade and one going into kindergarten. Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium is something that we do outside that is active, and I don’t risk blowing a hamstring,” says Trevor Schade, a single father who shares custody of his sons.

“We wanted to do something that was significant for Omaha, but also significant nationally and internationally,” says Dr. Lee G. Simmons (“Doc”), former director of Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium and current chairman of the Omaha Zoo Foundation, of the plan to put a jungle in the middle of the heartland.