Photos: Who's at the Reid Park Zoo?
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Before you visit them in person, get a sneak peek of newly added Reid Park Zoo animals here as well as birth announcements.
Litsemba, right, 11 months pregnant with her third offspring, romps in the sun in the Expedition Tanzania exhibit with Sundzu, her 2-year-old, at the Reid Park Zoo, 3400 Zoo Court, in Tucson, Ariz. Litsemba, or "Semba" for short, is expected to give birth sometime between the end of June and beginning of August next year. It marks the first-ever elephant pregnancy for the zoo, said education coordinator Vivian VanPeenen. Photo by Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Sta
Litsemba, 11 months pregnant with her third offspring, romps in the sun in the Expedition Tanzania exhibit with the father, Mabu, left, at the Reid Park Zoo, 3400 Zoo Court, in Tucson, Ariz. Litsemba, or "Semba" for short, is expected to give birth sometime between the end of June and beginning of August next year. It marks the first-ever elephant pregnancy for the zoo, said education coordinator Vivian VanPeenen. Photo by Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Sta
Litsemba, 11 months pregnant with her third offspring, romps in the sun in the Expedition Tanzania exhibit at the Reid Park Zoo, 3400 Zoo Court, in Tucson, Ariz. Litsemba, or "Semba" for short, is expected to give birth sometime between the end of June and beginning of August next year. It marks the first-ever elephant pregnancy for the zoo, said education coordinator Vivian VanPeenen. Photo by Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Sta
Litsemba, behind, 11 months pregnant with her third offspring, romps in the sun in the Expedition Tanzania exhibit with Sundzu, her 2-year-old, at the Reid Park Zoo, 3400 Zoo Court, in Tucson, Ariz. Litsemba, or "Semba" for short, is expected to give birth sometime between the end of June and beginning of August next year. It marks the first-ever elephant pregnancy for the zoo, said education coordinator Vivian VanPeenen. Photo by Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Sta
Finley, a yearling female grizzly, climbs out of the water while exploring her new home at the Reid Park Zoo on Sept. 18, 2013 in Tucson. The bear and his sister will be open for public viewing Thursday when the park opens its gates at 9 a.m. following a private coming-out party for donors at 8 a.m. The roll out continues on Saturday with Greet The Grizzlies from 9 a.m. to noon.
- Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
Ronan, a yearling male grizzly, paws at a piece of fruit to try to fetch it without falling into the deep end of the pool in his new home at the Reid Park Zoo on Sept. 18, 2013. The bear and his sister will be open for public viewing Thursday when the park opens its gates at 9 a.m. following a private coming-out party for donors at 8 a.m. The roll out continues on Saturday with Greet The Grizzlies from 9 a.m. to noon.
- Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
Sita, a 10 year-old female Malayan tiger who arrived from the Bronx Zoo in summer 2011, hops over water at Reid Park Zoo on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. She was quarantined for 30 days and then had to wait out modifications to the tiger exhibit before she was allowed in the the exhibit.
- David Sanders/Arizona Daily Star
Jasiri, right, a young male reticulated giraffe who arrived from Indianapolis Zoo in October 2012, sticks close to Texas, a mature giraffe, as they explore during his first day on public view in the new habitat at the Reid Park Zoo on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012.
- Ron Medvescek
Litsemba, right, 11 months pregnant with her third offspring, romps in the sun in the Expedition Tanzania exhibit with Sundzu, her 2-year-old, at the Reid Park Zoo, 3400 Zoo Court, in Tucson, Ariz. Litsemba, or "Semba" for short, is expected to give birth sometime between the end of June and beginning of August next year. It marks the first-ever elephant pregnancy for the zoo, said education coordinator Vivian VanPeenen. Photo by Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Sta
Litsemba, 11 months pregnant with her third offspring, romps in the sun in the Expedition Tanzania exhibit with the father, Mabu, left, at the Reid Park Zoo, 3400 Zoo Court, in Tucson, Ariz. Litsemba, or "Semba" for short, is expected to give birth sometime between the end of June and beginning of August next year. It marks the first-ever elephant pregnancy for the zoo, said education coordinator Vivian VanPeenen. Photo by Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Sta
Litsemba, 11 months pregnant with her third offspring, romps in the sun in the Expedition Tanzania exhibit at the Reid Park Zoo, 3400 Zoo Court, in Tucson, Ariz. Litsemba, or "Semba" for short, is expected to give birth sometime between the end of June and beginning of August next year. It marks the first-ever elephant pregnancy for the zoo, said education coordinator Vivian VanPeenen. Photo by Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Sta
Litsemba, behind, 11 months pregnant with her third offspring, romps in the sun in the Expedition Tanzania exhibit with Sundzu, her 2-year-old, at the Reid Park Zoo, 3400 Zoo Court, in Tucson, Ariz. Litsemba, or "Semba" for short, is expected to give birth sometime between the end of June and beginning of August next year. It marks the first-ever elephant pregnancy for the zoo, said education coordinator Vivian VanPeenen. Photo by Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Sta
Finley, a yearling female grizzly, climbs out of the water while exploring her new home at the Reid Park Zoo on Sept. 18, 2013 in Tucson. The bear and his sister will be open for public viewing Thursday when the park opens its gates at 9 a.m. following a private coming-out party for donors at 8 a.m. The roll out continues on Saturday with Greet The Grizzlies from 9 a.m. to noon.
- Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
Ronan, a yearling male grizzly, paws at a piece of fruit to try to fetch it without falling into the deep end of the pool in his new home at the Reid Park Zoo on Sept. 18, 2013. The bear and his sister will be open for public viewing Thursday when the park opens its gates at 9 a.m. following a private coming-out party for donors at 8 a.m. The roll out continues on Saturday with Greet The Grizzlies from 9 a.m. to noon.
- Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
Sita, a 10 year-old female Malayan tiger who arrived from the Bronx Zoo in summer 2011, hops over water at Reid Park Zoo on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. She was quarantined for 30 days and then had to wait out modifications to the tiger exhibit before she was allowed in the the exhibit.
- David Sanders/Arizona Daily Star
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