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Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo has announced the arrival of five new Guinea hog piglets to the farmyard family, according to a release.. The piglets were born Friday, Aug. 2, according to Beardsley ...
Right now at Beardsley Zoo, the Victorian Greenhouse has an intricate art installation from Glass Master Artist Peter Greenwood (and good news: the koi are finally used to the new decor).
BRIDGEPORT, CT (WFSB) - Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo turns 100 years old this year. Much, much older than its newest residents. There’s more to the squirmy new guinea hog piglets than meets the ...
BRIDGEPORT, CT (WFSB) - Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo announced the birth of its first black-handed spider monkey since the 1980s this week. The zoo in Bridgeport said the infant was born to ...
Beardsley Zoo Director Gregg Dancho in the zoo's latest addition, a new Andean bear enclosure, scheduled to open in July in Bridgeport, Conn., on Friday, April 15, 2022.
The Beardsley Zoo announced their reopening of the rainforest building with a new space and new animals. They started construction in the wintertime and have recently finished the refresh. Stream ...
When the butterfly sculpture was unveiled last week at the Beardsley Zoo, Eunice Hanson gasped and softly cried. The two-foot high yellowish-green butterfly made of wrought iron, crafted by Craig ...
Beardsley Zoo said two adult Giant anteaters call the zoo’s Pampas Plains home. The female, Pana, and the male, EO, were both born in 2009. They just welcomed their fourth pup together to the world.
Wiggles was elected as the first Mayor of Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo back in November 2020 and served a brief tenure that sadly came to an end when he died on Sunday, Jan. 3.
BRIDGEPORT — Two Beardsley Zoo residents got a new home this weekend. The zoo officially opened its The Natt Family Red Panda Habitat to the public on Saturday. The new habitat gives the zoo’s ...
Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo staff said Wednesday that they are saddened by the death a female golden lion tamarin named Cricket.. Cricket was 6 years old and died right after “an unviable ...