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Trombone Shorty stands tall in zoo concert lineup

August 20, 2012 - 12:09pm

It’s summertime at the Oregon Zoo, and the Zoo Doo isn’t the only thing that’s funky. Two thrilling musicians, Trombone Shorty and Robert Randolph, will share a bill Aug. 24

Zoo hosts orangutan conservation workshop

August 17, 2012 - 03:30pm

The Oregon Zoo is hosting the sixth annual Orangutan Species Survival Plan workshop Aug. 20-23, bringing some of the world's leading experts to Portland to address issues facing orangutans, both in the wild and in zoos, with a heavy emphasis on conservation.

Last call for Pink Martini, Aug. 18-19

August 14, 2012 - 01:59pm

What says summer in Portland like Pink Martini at the Oregon Zoo? Having played the zoo more than 10 times since 2005, the "little orchestra" will once again make it a double this year,

Grammy-winner Melissa Etheridge performs Aug. 11

August 8, 2012 - 11:44am

Grammy- and Oscar-winning singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge brings her rich, husky voice and nearly 25 years' worth of rootsy, personal pop-rock hits to Portland Aug. 11 as part of the Oregon Zoo's summer concert series.

Supertramp star returns to spotlight Aug. 10

August 1, 2012 - 11:29am

In 1979, as the Oregon Zoo prepared to launch its first summer concert series, Supertramp's "Breakfast in America" was ensconced at No. 1 on the Billboard album charts, held aloft for six weeks by Top 10 hits like "Take the Long Way Home" and "The Logical Song."

Zoo will say goodbye to its beloved gray wolves

July 26, 2012 - 12:03pm

In August the wolves will be departing for the Lee G. Simmons Conservation Park and Wildlife Safari in Omaha, Neb. — part of the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium — as the Oregon Zoo prepares for work on a vastly expanded home for its Asian elephant herd. The new elephant area will stretch over much of the meadows and forests along the zoo's eastern edge, and there will no longer be room for a sufficiently engaging wolf habitat.

Zoo brings sounds of South Africa to summer concert series

July 25, 2012 - 01:47pm

Two venerable acts from the townships of South Africa will make up one of the best world-music double bills in recent memory Aug. 4, when the Johnny Clegg Band and Ladysmith Black Mambazo play at the Oregon Zoo's summer concert series, presented by Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon with support from U.S. Bank and Toyota.

Summer nearly over for endangered Northwest turtles

July 24, 2012 - 06:18pm

After one of the rainiest Junes on record and a relatively cool July, Portlanders may feel like summer's just getting under way. But for seven western pond turtles reared at the Oregon Zoo, a nearly yearlong stretch of warm days and nights will soon be drawing to an end.

Zoo to close early on Saturday to prepare for Zoolala

July 18, 2012 - 03:17pm

The Oregon Zoo will close early at 3 p.m. this Saturday, July 21, to set up for the Oregon Zoo Foundation's annual summer celebration, Zoolala. Visitors already in the zoo by that time may remain until 4 p.m.

Zoo pygmy rabbit recovery effort ends July 19

July 17, 2012 - 12:20pm

The Oregon Zoo's 12-year effort to save the endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit will draw to a close on Thursday, July 19, when the zoo releases its last 14 breeding rabbits and their offspring at the Sagebrush Flat Wildlife Area in eastern Washington.

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