🦛🧩🥬 Building relationships with our animals is an essential part of being a zookeeper. Our Hoofstock team works with a variety of animals on a daily basis, usually 6 or more. From training and animal care to prepping healthy diets and engaging enrichment, our zookeepers do it all. Get a glimpse of what a typical day looks like for Cynthia, our hoofstock keeper. | Houston Zoo

Jaguars are thought to have the largest prey base of all big cats. Get an up-close look at Rojo this morning and learn how we’re helping save his counterparts in the wild from Keeper Jenna. | Houston Zoo

See our hauntingly immersive show, PhantomScape, that casts eerie, enchanted displays along the rockwork in Galápagos Islands. You can ONLY see this at extended hours tonight and on select nights during Zoo Boo presented by King & Spalding. Plan your visit: bit.ly/3IRJpOe | Houston Zoo

Hip-hip-hooray. Meet Akobi, our pygmy hippo. Members, join us for our next Member Morning tomorrow at 8am and meet our newest resident. | Houston Zoo

14K views · 561 reactions | 鍊 Hip, hippo yay! Meet the newest member of our herd, a 450-pound male pygmy hippopotamus named Silas. He moved here from Omaha, NE in September and made his public debut yesterday! Come see Silas during your next Zoo visit! Read more about our newest addition: bit.ly/2UYJAuA | Houston Zoo | Facebook

See what's new at your favorite Zoo in 2025. | Houston Zoo

5.8K views · 155 reactions | The Zoo’s main entrance has been undergoing a transformation and is officially open to the public today. Tune in to today’s Facebook Live at 11am to see some of the new features and hang out with our Children’s Zoo keepers! | Houston Zoo | Facebook

1.6K views · 1K reactions | We see a Zoo visit in your future! Come see your favorite animals that you know and love. | Houston Zoo | Facebook