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Update: Ozzy is 6 weeks old! Time flies when you're a baby rhino! Ozzy is already six weeks old and ready to take on the world. "While Ozzy is slowly becoming more...
A Brief History of Naming Taxonomy, in its purest form, is simply a system of naming. It’s a scientific card catalog that says what everything is from the blue whale to...
The Latest Lemurs to Land at Safari West! Safari West has long been the proud home of two lemur species: the famous and easily identified ring-tailed lemur, and the more obscure...
Safari West is home to much more than the exotic animals in our collection. The preserve sits on 400-acres of pristine Mayacamas mountain habitat and our giraffes and cape buffalo...
Earth Day 2017 certainly turned out to be one for the record books. Across the nation, concerned citizens and scientists of all stripes came together to March for Science. At...
Something big is coming up this month and it’s kicking off on Wednesday the 17th 2017. It’s called Invest in the Nest and it marks the very first collaboration between...
Every year, as the chill and wet of winter gives way to the greenery and blue skies of spring, Safari West blooms. Exotic birds begin nesting, many of our antelope...
Safari West’s Mother’s Day Extravaganza sold out early this year but we’re so excited, we wanted to talk about it anyway. This year’s event includes a new exciting component we’re calling...
Earth Day comes around once a year and it’s our chance to put our planet front and center, to reflect on how it’s doing today and how we’d like it...
Flamingos, in my opinion, are the most overlooked and under-appreciated of the exotic birds. Sure, they’re beautiful and flamboyantly colored, but we seem to have become accustomed to, and perhaps...