History
In 2007, the Cape May County Zoo received thirteen Chilean Flamingos from Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch. These birds summer outside in the Flamingo Yard and winter inside the World of Birds Aviary. The Chilean Flamingos are the smallest flamingos in the yard as well as the most numerous.
In April 2008, the zoo opened up a Bald Eagle exhibit, acquiring two birds from the Wildlife Center for Virginia. The Cape May County Zoological Society, a nonprofit organization, raised about $25,000 for the new exhibit. The new exhibit kicked off the 30th anniversary of the zoo.
In 2010, the enclosure of the bald eagle habitat - Eagle Creek - was destroyed by the heavy record snow fall. Funded by a gift in memory of a local Navy veteran of WWII, Cape May County Zoological Society/ZooFriends are building a new home for the eagles.
On May 10, 2010, the Cape May County Zoo welcomed two snow leopard cubs born to parents Himani and Vijay. They are the first snow leopard cubs born at the zoo and the first cubs for mother ‘Himani’. Only eleven snow leopards were born and survived last year in the United States. All four are currently housed in the snow leopard yard, because the snow leopard exhibit was destroyed during snow storms in February 2010. The Cape May County Zoological Society/ZooFriends plans to raise money to build a new habitat for them. The two male cubs, Kaba and Sabu are part of the Association of Zoos & Aquariums(AZA) Species Survival Plan(SSP) Program. The mission of an AZA SSP Program is to cooperatively manage specific, and typically threatened or endangered species populations within AZA-accredited Zoos and Aquariums. Kabu now resides at the Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester and Sabu is at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago.
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