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Chivalry Survives for the Bears Need proof that chivalry isn’t dead this Valentine’s Day? Visit Spangles and Cisco, the Queens Zoo’s amorous spectacled bears, to see how it’s really done. Watch a lesson in bear courtship—but don’t try this on your date.

Pronghorn Find a New Home on the Range Pronghorn, meet bison. Bison, meet pronghorn. The sleek and the shaggy have been united at the Queens Zoo. It’s just as it should be for these two species—neighbors in their wild habitat on the Great Plains. Pronghorn explore their piece of Queens prairie.

Help Wanted: Seeking Queens Zoo Volunteers! Connect with the community and share your love of animals by volunteering at the Queens Zoo. The Zoo is seeking volunteers to lead discussions at exhibit areas, give tours, and assist with special events.

Mel Turns His Eagle Eyes on Claire II Long looks are being exchanged at the Queens Zoo, where bald eagle Mel has a new mate, Claire II. While she's getting acquainted with Mel, Claire II has also been busy exploring her Flushing Meadows digs. Both are rescued birds, having suffered wing injuries in the wild.

Budding Explorers Welcome at the Discovery Center Visit the Discovery Center, now open from noon to 4:00 p.m. every weekend. Young explorers can browse our Zoo Library, peer into a microscope, dig for fossils, put on a puppet show, and make crafts to take home.

Denzel and Margarita Had Two Little Lambs This spring brings two woolly bundles to the Zoo’s barnyard. The lambs were February babies, a male and a female born to mothers Denzel and Margarita. Turns out, little lambs prefer sheep’s milk and hay to ivy.

A Prairie Dilemma: Restoring a West Where the Buffalo Roam In the course of a century, the WCS bison conservation mission has grown from restoring the herds to the Western Plains, to revitalizing the Plains themselves. Get the full story in this feature from Connect Magazine.

Where Will the Buffalo Roam? Find Out in Our New Podcast Legends of the Wild West would be incomplete without herds of bison thundering across the Plains. Learn the truth behind the tales, and what it will take to bring back the bison.  Click here to listen

Spangles Goes A-Courtin’ Things are heating up in the dens of Queens Zoo. Spectacled bear Cisco’s new female companion, Spangles, clearly wants to be more than just friends. Will this match reform Cisco’s bachelor ways? Watch a lesson in bear courtship—but don’t try this on your date.

Pioneer Visions A Legacy of Bison Conservation, 1896–2006 Can our continent’s largest land mammal still make a home on the range? A century ago, WCS saved the American bison from extinction; today our mission is saving the prairie itself.

Queens Zoo Welcomes New Spectacled Bear The Queens Zoo’s new spectacled bear, Spangles, is busy pawing, sniffing, and digging around in her new home. Watch a video clip of Spangles at play, and then plan your next visit to help us welcome her to New York!

Not Just for the Birds! Aviary Now Open Flocks of waterfowl, small white herons known as cattle egrets, and a darling baby porcupine named Spanky are enjoying their newly renovated home at the Queens Zoo.

A Pudu Pairing Make (a little) room for Napoleon! A new mate for the world’s smallest deer is getting a big welcome at the Queens Zoo. The zoo’s two pudu are settling happily into a new habitat, and the deer are already becoming a visitor favorite.

A Home for Herbie When Herbie the Harbor Seal was found stranded on a dock as a tiny pup, rescuers knew he’d need a nurturing home to grow big and strong. Today he’s giving kisses to his keepers and eating hearty fish dinners at the Central Park Zoo. Find out how Herbie and other wild animals at risk have found sanctuary at WCS zoos.

Going for the Gold…with Paws, Flippers, and Wings The challenge is on in Torino, Italy, where some of the world’s best athletes are competing in the XX Olympic Winter Games to prove themselves the strongest or the fastest, the most daring or the most precise.

What A Patient Puma! Felix the mountain lion needs no lollipop to persuade him to cooperate when the vet comes by—this cat hangs onto his cool when it’s time for a check-up.