Ponya, also 1, came to Beardsley Zoo from the Detroit Zoo in the spring. Meanwhile, a male red panda named Dorji, who had ...

Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo and a local coffee maker have teamed up to create a brand-new brew, which is now being poured at ...

The zoo earned accreditation from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ independent Accreditation Commission and two AZA ...

Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport has a new addition –an 11-month-old female red panda named Ponya. She is making her public debut this week in the Natt Family Red Panda Habitat.

BRIDGEPORT, CT (WFSB) - Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo announced the birth of its first black-handed spider monkey since the 1980s this week. The zoo in Bridgeport said the infant was born to ...

April 8, National Zoo Lovers Day April 14, Virtual Zoo Tots, 10:30 a.m.: A virtual storytime for kids ages 22 months to 4 years, which can include virtual animal encounters and virtual tours of ...

Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo staff said Wednesday that they are saddened by the death a female golden lion tamarin named Cricket. Cricket was 6 years old and died right after “an unviable birth ...

BRIDGEPORT, CT (WFSB) - Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo turns 100 years old this year. Much, much older than its newest residents. There’s more to the squirmy new guinea hog piglets than meets the ...

Wiggles was elected as the first Mayor of Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo back in November 2020 and served a brief tenure that sadly came to an end when he died on Sunday, Jan. 3.

Rochan joined the Beardsley Zoo family in Oct. 2015, after initially expected to be a temporary visitor from the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston. Rochan is 4. The name means light in Hindi.

The zoo hopes to have people adopt carousel animals - at $6,000 to $7,500 each - and will replace the horses, one by one, with a menagerie of lions, camels, giraffes and bears.