Your purchases from the store continue to provide enrichment and fun for the animals we all love. Here is Jackie, the delightful male red panda, when he sees himself in this great mirror. Does Jackie think he’s found a new friend?
Our DC Zoo Walks fans are the best – you purchased 269 photo books which means more enrichment for those animals we all love. Thanks to each of you who helped make this project a success.
And some new coasters have landed in the store. The little primate guys decided to combine efforts, so here they are – enjoy!
So many of you wanted a copy of the Bei Bei book that was a prize for winning the “panda ear” contest that we put together a slightly different version of Bei’s book along with one for Redd and a third for Moke. All three books are now available (“new in the store”) for order. We hope you will enjoy owning or sharing one of these books filled with some of the photos you have enjoyed from DC Zoo Walks.
Congratulations to Pilar for being our randomly chosen winner of the 23% who identified all four sets of panda ears correctly!
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| Photo1 – Mei Xiang | Photo2 – Bei Bei |
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| Photo3 – Tian Tian | Photo4 – Bao Bao |
Winners will be announced tomorrow at noon. Thanks to all of you who participated!
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| Ear Photo 1 | Ear Photo 2 | |
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Enrichment comes in many shapes, flavors and sizes. For an orangutan, two things we see them enjoying on a regular basis are fabric and bubbles. Batang has offered to serve as our orangutan model showing us just how both items are used. DC Zoo Walks continues to spend all profit providing things to enjoy for those wonderful animals we all love. Whenever you make a purchase or donation through the store, you are participating in this rewarding project.
It’s time to enjoy new items that have been added to the store. We’ve had requests for Samsung Galaxy phone covers and at last, that has happened. We’ve done a few to see if this is what the Galaxy owners want to enhance their phones. To that, add new notebook covers, key chains, coasters, prints, iPhone covers and an option to send gift cards to family and friends. We hope you will enjoy shopping for some new things knowing that every purchase adds to the enrichment fund.
With the support of our many DC Zoo Walks friends and shoppers, we see enrichment purchased with the funds you have supplied almost every time we walk through the zoo. Sometimes it’s something simple like that great treat ball Redd just pulled greens from and other times, it may be something much more complicated. As you can imagine, “toys” for big animals require very solid construction, so sometimes one item may cost hundreds of dollars. Every time we place an order, we know that all of you are the ones who should be thanked by these wonderful animals, so we will say thank you on their behalf.
Sometimes enrichment is as simple as this fabric Lucy enjoys, fleece for all the primates, kongs in multiple sizes for a variety of animals, or even a gift card for a hardware store which enables keepers to purchase items they can use. DC Zoo Walks is finding ways to focus the money generated from your purchases and donations to do things that make a difference for the animals we all love. Thanks to each of you for making this possible!
Spend a couple of minutes with 2-year old orangutan Redd as he tries out this new enrichment, a Prima-rocker. What a perfect fit for this active little guy and something we hope he will enjoy for a long time. This is just one item of enrichment that the profits from this site provide for animals. We appreciate the support all of you have shown for this project. Video – Karie Kirkpatrick.