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Featured Animals – Slender-Tailed Meerkat

Discover “everything meerkat” around the Zoo below; from news to adoptions, births, conservation programs, your own encounter options, animal experiences, shows, events and more.

Meerkat Highlights

Meerkat Pups

Where African Rift Valley

– Born Saturday, March 2, 2024 – Slender-tailed meerkat mom, Hullabaloo, and dad, Sage, have their paws full with two tiny, fluffy and squeaky bundles of joy. On March 2, the first-time parents welcomed their babies to their cozy behind-the-scenes den in Encounter Africa. Hullabaloo and Sage are adapting to parenting like pros and their brand-new family is bonding well. Guests can keep an eye out for the young family in the west meerkat habitat in Encounter Africa.

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Come Behind the Scenes to Meet the Meerkat Pups

March 27, 2024

Slender-tailed meerkat mom, Hullabaloo, and dad, Sage, have their paws full with two tiny, fluffy and squeaky bundles of joy. On March 2, the first-time parents welcomed their babies to their cozy behind-the-scenes den in Encounter Africa. Hullabaloo and Sage are adapting to parenting like pros and their brand-new family is bonding well. The little . . .

African Rift Valley

One Exhibit. Endless Adventures. Immerse yourself in up-close animal encounters and interactive learning experiences in an open space similar to the African savanna. Interact with our giraffes and look for the chance to hand-feed them, too! We have one of North America’s largest giraffe herds, the result of a prolific breeding program with more than 200 births since 1954. You’ll also see African lions, Grant’s zebra, vultures, Red River hogs, colobus monkeys, okapi – and even get to go inside a life-sized 900-year-old baobab tree replica!

Checking in with CMZoo’s 2019 Babies

September 26, 2019

We had a baby boom in 2019! From meerkat pups to mountain lion kittens to a giraffe calf and more, the seven species of babies are growing up fast. (Make sure you watch until the end to meet our latest addition: five meerkat pups!)

Adopt Choices for Meerkats

Support your favorites with digital, traditional, gift package, and group adoptions. Gifting any adopt choice is available by simply completing the gift area at checkout.

Encounter Africa

Explore Encounter Africa, the Zoo’s award-winning exhibit. The views of Colorado Springs seen from the exhibit’s sky bridge remind you that you’re close to the city limits, but walking side-by-side with the Zoo’s elephants takes you to a different world. You’ll feel closer than ever to our African elephants as they splash in their waterfall and pool. See a black rhinoceros from a cantilevered bush plane. Along the way, meet meerkats and African Cape porcupine too.

Endangered Species at the Zoo

Are They in Danger of Extinction? Animals listed here may have a threatened or endangered conservation status with the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN).

Adopt an Animal

Foster any animal and you’ll help Cheyenne Mountain Zoo continue to provide outstanding care. Whether given as a gift or used to celebrate a favorite species, symbolic adoptions come with a variety of benefits only adoptive parents can enjoy. Ways to adopt your favorites: Digital Adoption – ($35) choose any Zoo animal from the full . . .

The Golden Years

January 31, 2019

IT’S ALL ABOUT BALANCE FOR AGING MEERKAT BOMANI Our meerkat population grew three times last year with the addition of three litters of pups. If one of the eldest CMZoo meerkats, Bomani, is any indication, they have long and healthy lives ahead of them. Bomani, a 13-year-old male slender-tailed meerkat, has lived at Cheyenne Mountain . . .

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