Animals
Come visit animals from around the world. Start your journey by looking into the depths of the two-story Red Ruffed Lemur exhibit.
From here you can travel as far as your own backyard or the land down under.
As you walk the paths and peer curiously into our naturalistic exhibits, be sure to notice the beauty around you with majestic pines and a waterfall cascading into Kingsbury Creek and the lush growth of wild flowers.
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Future of Frogs Traveling Exhibit
 The Lake Superior Zoo welcomes "Future of Frogs," an Animal Interaction Design Group (AIDG) exhibit to the zoo. The exhibit opens to the public on Friday, March 11, and will remain on display in the zoo's Primate Center until mid-September.
The exhibit highlights the delicate future of the world's frog population and the impact frogs have on our ecosystems. Included in "Future of Frogs" is a White's Tree Frog Exhibit, Poison Dart Frog Exhibit, Vietnamese Mossy Frog Exhibit, Fire-bellied Toad Exhibit and American Bull Frog Exhibit.
The display also includes a non-living interactive component, including:
• Frog Vocalization Kiosk featuring both audio and visual clips of eight frog species
• "Future of Frogs" Touch Screen Interactive that teaches guests about the reasons for the global decline of frogs
• Giant replica of an America Bull Frog suitable for climbing and taking pictures (6' wide by 7' long by 5' high)
• Jump Like a Frog - an educational activity for kids that teaches them about the challenges many frogs face every day in order to survive
• Frogs, Nature's Pest Control System - a puzzle activity that teaches kids about what frogs eat and how they help people
Director of Education and Animal Management, Leslie Larsen, said the exhibit will bring important attention to the diversity of frogs and their impact on our ecosystems.
"Frogs can be illusive in nature," Larsen said. "Although when we listen carefully, we can hear them, we may just not be able to see them. Now we'll get to see a variety of frogs up close. They play an important role in telling the story of the environment around us, so the more we learn about and appreciate them, the more aware we become of the health of our living environment."
Gray wolves
The zoo has acquired a bachelor group of three gray wolves on loan from the Wildlife Science Center of Columbus, MN.
The three gray wolves are settling into their new home in a specially designed exhibit at the zoo.
 Gray Wolf (Canis lupus)
Range: Canada and the following portions of the United States: Alaska, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Diet: Large hoofed animals worldwide; in MN, primarily white-tailed deer, also moose, beaver, snowshoe hare, other small animals
Habitat: Tundra, woodlands, forests, grasslands and deserts
Fun Facts:
- Howling is used to assemble the pack, talk to other packs, assert territorial claims or as a source of pleasure. In the open tundra, wolves can hear each other's howls from up to 10 miles away.
- Gray wolves communicate with each other through body language and scent marking in addition to howling.
- Wolves use their faces and tails to indicate their emotion and status in the pack and they mark territory with urine and feces.
The gray wolf.pdf
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