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Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo Receives Generous Donation from Ardaso Wine

1/29/2020

 
​BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – January 29, 2020 – Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo was selected to receive 15% of proceeds from wine sales from Fairfield, Conn.-based Ardaso Wine. The company’s CEO, Sonja Narcisse, named the Zoo as a recipient of the company’s corporate giving program beginning in January 2020. 

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It’s High Time for Connecticut’s Beardsley  Zoo’s Rare Century Plant to Bloom

1/21/2020

 
Flower Stalks Towering Overhead in the Victorian Greenhouse Take Decades to Appear; Watch is on for First Blooms
​BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – January 21, 2020 –Looking like a giant asparagus spear, flower stalks have appeared in the center of two different Agave plants, each colloquially known as a “Century plant” for the decades it requires to reproduce. One of the two has rapidly grown to more than nine feet; the second is more than seven feet. Adding approximately three inches every day, soon the spears will be brushing the high ceilings of the Victorian Greenhouse, where the last Century plant bloomed in 2003. 

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Rare Amur Leopard Cubs to Celebrate First Birthday at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo

1/13/2020

 
​BRIDGEPORT, Conn. –— January 13, 2020 – Two of the rarest of the big cats on earth will celebrate their first birthday at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo on Saturday, January 25. The Zoo’s two Amur leopard cubs, Orion and Kallisto (Panthera pardus orientalis), were born January 25, 2019, adding to the important species survival work being done at the AZA-accredited facility. The male Amur leopard cub, Orion, and the melanistic (an extremely rare black color variant) female, Kallisto, were hand-reared by Zoo staff. 

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