Zoo Miami

Zookeeper Yosanni Torres gives Goliath, the Galapagos tortoise born in 1890, a shower to cool off during the day on Tuesday, July 30, 2024, at Zoo Miami.

Fish popsicles and ice sponge baths: How Zoo Miami cools off its animals

It’s not just people affected by the increasingly extreme temperatures that bake South Florida in the summer. Animals feel it too. At the Zoo Miami, zoo keepers have various treats and tricks to keep their animals from overheating.

Ron Magill is a wildlife photographer and Zoo Miami’s “Goodwill Ambassador."

Arts & Culture

Getting real with Ron Magill: What Miami's beloved wildlife advocate learned from animals

Leslie Ovalle Atkinson

In his decades-long career, Ron Magill has learned a lot from the animal world, and now he's putting some of those lessons onto paper. The Pride of a Lion is about K’wasi, ZooMiami's first male lion cub and how we can learn from his tale of survival.

Sundial

Getting real with Ron Magill: Lessons learned from the animal world

Carlos Frías

Wildlife photographer and Zoo Miami’s “Goodwill Ambassador," Ron Magill joins us to talk about new book The Pride of a Lion.

The planned Miami Wilds water park project has been scaled down from a full-blown theme park over the years but it still includes water slides, shops and restaurants.

Environment

Contentious Miami Wilds water park is in danger after damaging county commission vote

Julia Cooper

Miami-Dade commissioners decided Tuesday not to give developers more time to comply with their lease for the Miami Wilds waterpark and hotel project — one more nail in the coffin of a controversial deal.

A sloth bear at ZooMiami slurps on a "bearsicle," which are large icicles layered with strawberries and blueberries and Gatorade to help cool the bears down.

Environment

From 'bearsicles' to walking clubs, South Florida finds new ways to adapt to extreme heat

Alyssa Ramos

This year's heat has been a wakeup call about the tangible impacts of climate change, as people in South Florida find new ways to deal with the extreme conditions.

Environment

Miami Wilds water park vote delayed until December as other sites are considered

Julia Cooper

The decision comes as Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said the county is looking at other locations for the project.

In 2004, after an endangered Florida bonneted bat was found dead near the Asian elephant house at Zoo Miami, zoo officials and bat conservationists have worked to help save the rare bats. Bat houses set up around the zoo over the last four years helped establish the densest population of bats documented anywhere in the state.

Environment

Zoo Miami created an oasis for bonneted bats. It's getting in the way of a water park

Jenny Staletovich

The controversial Miami Wilds water park near Zoo Miami comes back before Miami-Dade county commissioners Tuesday. But the commissioner who requested the deal now wants it deferred indefinitely.

Environment

Amid legal fight, vote on controversial water park near Zoo Miami is deferred

Jenny Staletovich

County commissioners postponed a vote that would have tied a critical step in ending the legal battle to a lease extension.

Environment

Zoo Miami water park has a new outspoken critic: the zoo's longtime spokesman

Jenny Staletovich

Zoo Miami spokesman Ron Magill says he is raising concerns as a private citizen and conservationist. "If the zoo is the last place where a species of animal can be seen, then zoos have failed.”

Dalip, an elephant who lived at Zoo Miami and its predecessor in Key Biscayne for decades, died on Nov. 24, 2022, at age 56.

Dalip the elephant, a Zoo Miami staple for decades, has died at age 56

Douglas Hanks

In this image provided by Zoo Miami, a female loggerhead turtle receives fluids as part of a treatment on May 28, 2022, after she was brought to Miami Zoo's new Sea Turtle Hospital in Miami. The turtle was rescued from the Port St. Lucie Power Plant after a shark attack left its left fin with exposed bone.

Sea turtle delivers eggs, endures surgery after shark attack

Freida Frisaro | Associated Press

A loggerhead turtle is rehabbing at Zoo Miami's new Sea Turtle Hospital. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission sent the turtle to the zoo after a shark bit off most of her left fin.

Bald eagle family live cam, the 25th annual Miami Jewish Film Festival

Leslie Ovalle Atkinson

You can now follow a family of bald eagles living in South Florida. Plus, the Miami Jewish Film Festival is back with in-person and online screenings. We hear about one of the films, which center around family, aging, and reconciliation.