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The Oregon Zoo’s Stumptown Fil Agrees With Punxsutawney Phil, Predicts Six More Weeks of Winter

This morning, Stumptown Fil, aka Oregon Zoo beaver Filbert, made his own prediction. Without much pomp and circumstance but plenty of fruit and veggie treats, Filbert shuffled onto a makeshift stand where he selected the scroll that read “six more weeks of winter.”

The Oregon Zoo Has Euthanized Inji, Thought to Be the World’s Oldest Orangutan

Inji, believed to be the world’s oldest orangutan and the Oregon Zoo’s most senior animal, had died. She was 61 years old.

The Oregon Zoo Reopens to Daytime Guests This Weekend for the First Time Since the November Freeze

Starting this weekend, patrons will be able to get out of their cars to wander the Oregon Zoo for the first time since the state’s mid-November “freeze” to stem the surge in COVID-19 cases.

Turning ZooLights Into a Drive-Thru Was a Desperate Pandemic Pivot. It’s Now More Popular Than Ever.

When the Oregon Zoo turned its annual holiday light display into a drive-thru, the scheme was a last resort. Nikki Simmons didn’t expect ZooLights to become more popular than ever.

An Elephant Keeper at the Oregon Zoo Suggested Turning ZooLights Into a Drive-Thru

The zoo typically hosts up to 14,000 people a night walking amid the twinkling lights each holiday season.

ZooLights Might Still Take Place This Year as a Drive-Thru

The holidays aren’t totally canceled.

Halloween Ain’t Dead Yet. Here Are Seven Events That’ll Help Conjure That Old Spooky Feeling.

Sure, this isn’t going to be a typical Halloween, but there are still opportunities to catch a whiff of the holiday as we know it. Here are seven socially distant or otherwise safe events happening in Portland that should conjure that old spooky feeling.

Watch Oregon Zoo Elephants Stomp the Crap Out of Some Pumpkins

This morning, the elephants at the Oregon Zoo participated in the annual Squishing of the Squash, which is pretty much what it sounds like: Every year around Halloween, a few monstrous pumpkins are presented to the zoo’s family of Asian elephants, whose natural inclination is to stomp them open and lap up their tasty innards.

Oregon Zoo Evacuated More than 40 Endangered California Condors From an Offsite Facility Near the Clackamas Fires

As wildfires continue to rage in Clackamas County, zoo keepers were forced to relocate the dozens of large birds, which can weigh up to 30 pounds and have wingspans up to 10 feet.

Oregon Zoo Reaches Deal With State Officials, Will Reopen to the Public This Weekend

The Oregon Zoo is ready to welcome back visitors for the first time in nearly four months. After closing March 17 in an effort to help quell the spread of COVID-10, the state’s largest paid tourist attraction has been hemorrhaging money. It costs about $2 million a month to care for the animals, keep up the grounds and prepare to reopen. While the zoo’s director says there has been an outpouring of financial support from donors to the Oregon Zoo Foundation, the $1 million dollar infusion of cash isn’t enough to keep the property running without paying guests for the long term

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