new animals

There is a new giraffe at Providence's Roger Williams Park Zoo and she has the perfect name already. Meet Providence, the 20-month-old Masai giraffe that has joined the Roger Williams Zoo family from Greenville Zoo in South Carolina. Interestingly, zoo staff there named this adorable young giraffe before they even knew she would be coming to live in Rhode Island...

Seems like the rescue of wildlife across the SouthCoast happens every day. Some local animals even need to be rescued twice! Yet, there's one creature we almost never hear about - deer. Sadly baby deer are orphaned all the time. Local hunters, busy roadways and wild predators are every day threats to the local deer population and sometimes the younger members of a herd are left without a doe to sh

With all the animals there are to see at New Bedford's Buttonwood Park Zoo, you may simply breeze through the lobby when you enter. Now there's a colorful new reason to stop and look around for a while. Buttonwood Zoo has just welcomed five critically endangered Panamanian golden frogs to one of the terrarium habitats in the admissions lobby of the zoo. The...

Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence will be expanding and improving over the next few years. And what they have planned sounds exciting.