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Foto Friday Winner of the Week

Posted by in African Forest,Chimpanzees,Contest,Enrichment,Featured

The FOTO FRIDAY caption challenge results are in!

Last Friday we posted our weekly Foto Friday pic and invited you to leave your best caption in the comment section. Then readers “liked” each caption comment to vote for their favorites. Their votes, combined with those of our own panel, determined the caption to appear under the picture right here on the Official Houston Zoo Blog this week.

YOUR VOTES HELP DETERMINE THE WINNERS!

Here is the picture that was posted along with the top voted caption by Jane Judd Peikert, whose caption won by a landslide!

We're never going to finish if you keep eating all the fruit!

FIRST RUNNERS UP – a tie between:

Hillary Skeryanc-Mann: He needs an ear right here.
Charlie Paul:
We can call him Parson Brown!

SECOND RUNNER UP:

Alma Garza Mescher: By the time his cousin, Frosty, gets the ransom together, he’s gonna be slush and we’re going to have to make do with selling him to Sonic.

THIRD RUNNERS UP – a tie between:

Dana Rice: We have some ice to pick with you!
Dana Rice: Are you losing weight?
Cathy Rackley Todd: Monkey see & monkey do!
Christine Ledder: Wow the kitchen crew is really evolving…snow sculpture!
Excargo Services: How will we communicate with the primate?
Lacy Pekarik: The face of that snowman looks like a seal.
Pat Harper Patterson: Hey! This rude guy is STARING at you, but you shouldn’t poke him in the eye!!! I’ll bet his frosty attitude will melt away soon.
Elizabeth Riley Firchau: “Back off! I already called dibs on the scarf!!”
Debbie Bazan: Get Italy on the phone. I’ve created a new masterpiece.
Rebecca Dolen Bowers: Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle….. a snowman in Houston.

Thanks for joining in the fun!

And please come on back for the next FOTO Friday!

The chimpanzees can be seen daily in the new African Forest section of the Houston Zoo. The snowman however is an occasional treat, part of the many types of enrichment we offer our animals.

FOTO Friday Winner of the Week

Posted by in Aquarium,Contest,Funny

Welcome to the Houston Zoo’s FOTO FRIDAY Caption Challenge results post from Friday, November 11!

Last Friday, we asked you to leave your best caption in the comment section. Then readers could “like” each caption comment to vote for their favorites. Their votes, combined with those of our own panel, determined the caption to appear under the picture right here on the Official Houston Zoo Blog this week. We hope you’ll come back for the fun EVERY FRIDAY.

YOUR VOTES HELP DETERMINE THE WINNERS!

Here is the picture that was posted with the top voted caption by Sandra Fleming Studios, who is no stranger to our Caption Challenge. 

Let’s high five her with a big, green slimy fin!

Hey, its me, Swampy! I'm going to get you out there, okay? In the meantime keep it low key!

FIRST RUNNER UP:

 
Shannon Krugman: Holy Crap!!! I hope that’s not my reflection!!

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SECOND RUNNER UP:

 Stacey Ricks: Take me to your leader!

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THIRD RUNNER UP:

 Kristen McGrady: I challenge you to a staring contest…and go……5 minutes later and winner still has not been declared!

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HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Johnnie T. Melia Moving & Storage Co., Inc.: Well lets see if eharmony can find a match for me…

Amy Farrugia Jones You are getting sleepy. When you awake you will bark like a dog every time you see the color red.

Kristal White If you believe it you can do it. Now concentrate and swim thru the glass

Erika Wehmeyer Livingston I hate it when these fish come by my aquarium to stare at me!

Barbara Blanchard Reed ‎…They really do exist…

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Thanks for joining in the fun!

And please come on back for the next FOTO Friday!

Why not visit the Kipp Aquarium over the Thanskgiving holiday? It’s a great way to walk off the turkey or let the kids get their extra energy out! We will be closing early, at 3:00 PM on Thanksgiving day, to allow our employees to have more time with their families. The last ticket will be sold at 2:00 p.m.

 

 

FOTO Friday Winner of the Week!

Posted by in Carnivores,Contest,Funny

Welcome to the Houston Zoo’s FOTO FRIDAY Caption Challenge results post from Friday, November 11!

Last Friday, we asked you to leave your best caption in the comment section. Then readers could “like” each caption comment to vote for their favorites. Their votes, combined with those of our own panel, determined the caption to appear under the picture right here on the Official Houston Zoo Blog this week. We hope you’ll come back for the fun EVERY FRIDAY.

YOUR VOTES HELP DETERMINE THE WINNERS!

Here is the picture that was posted with the top voted caption by Tricia Nicole Mulkey McClelland!

SPOT-ACULAR, and the flock cheers!

Doesn't smell like chicken...

FIRST RUNNER UP:

  Lizette Kim Gonzalez: Darn… they’ve tricked me again!! ITS PLASTIC!! GGGRRRRRRAAAH…

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SECOND RUNNER UP:

  Sara Keene-Jeter: I thought we got free range, not processed

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THIRD RUNNER UP:

  Lynne Hengst: I wonder if Jonathon flamingo flocked me !?!?

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HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Tonia White: Ugh! I can’t eat this! Its pink!

Dana Rice: Unfortunately, the hiney sniff doesn’t give me any clue as to what this creature is. To eat or not to eat?

Tammy Farnsworth: If I get a wee bit lower I can blend right in…

Erika Wehmeyer Livingston: Nope. I still don’t see why the dogs do that!

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Thanks for joining in the fun!

And please come on back for the next FOTO Friday!

Looking for a fun creative way to surprise your friends? Fill their lawn with flamingos from The Houston Zoo’s Flamingo Flocking!


FOTO Friday Winner of the Week!

Posted by in Carnivores,Contest,Funny

Welcome to the Houston Zoo’s FOTO FRIDAY Caption Challenge results post from Friday, November 4!

Last Friday, we asked you to leave your best caption in the comment section. Then readers could “like” each caption comment to vote for their favorites. Their votes, combined with those of our own panel, determined the caption to appear under the picture right here on the Official Houston Zoo Blog this week. We hope you’ll come back for the fun EVERY FRIDAY.

YOUR VOTES HELP DETERMINE THE WINNERS!

Here is the picture that was posted with the top voted caption by Tracy Thornton 

** CROWD ROAR!**

If you squint your eyes just right, they look like lunch

FIRST RUNNER UP:

 
Niki Roberts: Lester, I don’t have my glasses, are those people watching us?
No, dear, just the trees.

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A TIE FOR SECOND RUNNER UP:

Mike McDermott: Keep smiling, then I’ll take the one on the right, you cover me… 

Asa-Mari Elric: Nah. People give me gas. Let’s order pizza

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AND A TIE FOR THIRD RUNNERS UP:

Susan Cunningham: Darling, we must remember our sunglasses next time

Amy Farrugia Jones: “Just closeyour eyes, maybe they will go away!”

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HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Charlie Paul: If you squint hard enough you can imagine the Sahara over there…

Nicole Key: “Just LION around! Get it? Cause we’re lions?”
“Dammit, Jonathan, I got it! I didn’t laugh cause it’s still not funny.”

Nancy Gray Barrow: Pardon me my Queen…do we have any Grey Poupon?

AmyandVinnie Antoline: “The next Solar eclipse is when again”?

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Thanks for joining in the fun!

And please come on back for the next FOTO Friday!

 


FOTO Friday Winner of the Week

Posted by in Contest,Funny,Meerkats

Welcome to the Houston Zoo’s FOTO FRIDAY Caption Challenge results post from Friday, October 28!

Last Friday, we asked you to leave your best caption in the comment section. Then readers could “like” each caption comment to vote for their favorites. Their votes, combined with those of our own panel, determined the caption to appear under the picture right here on the Official Houston Zoo Blog this week. We hope you’ll come back for the fun EVERY FRIDAY.

Here is the picture that was posted with the top voted caption by Leigh Spencer! ** Insert a day-after-Halloween Happy Dance!**

YOUR VOTES HELP DETERMINE THE WINNERS!

Wait all you want, I'm not climbing into that pumpkin until you put the camera away!

FIRST RUNNER UP:

Stacey Ricks: Please sir, can I have some more?

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A SECOND RUNNER UP:

 
Renee Geer Leasure:  While I was on look out duty ya’ll ate all the goodies? This better be a trick!

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THIRD RUNNERS UP:


Barbara Blanchard Reed: sigh….I got a rock.

Toni Frazer Barber: I know the economy isn’t doing so well right now but this is a little drastic don’t you think?

 

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HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Diana Mercado: It wasn’t me…I didn’t eat all of the candy! I am naturally this full looking :)

Rosie Villegas: Wasn’t there suppose to be a rabbit?

Bryan Skinner: Meerkat on November 1st. “It can’t be over! It just can’t!”

Megan Tennill: Can I have some Candy, Pwease? I used my Meerkat Manners!

Heather Sauers: I can haz halloweenz candeez??

Kim Ivy Swicegood: What do you mean? This IS my costume!

Tricia Nicole Mulkey McClelland: You have to be kidding me… Right?

Lyndsey Butler:
Don’t trick this meerkat
Treat me fat
Place insects and crawlies in my pumpkin bowl
Or empty handed I’ll return to my burrowed hole

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Thanks for joining in the fun!
We hope you all had a really FUN Halloween… on to November!

And please come on back for the next FOTO Friday!

 


FOTO Friday Winner of the Week

Posted by in Contest,Funny,Primates

Welcome to the Houston Zoo’s FOTO FRIDAY Caption Challenge results post from Friday, October 21!

Last Friday, we asked you to leave your best caption in the comment section. Then readers could “like” each caption comment to vote for their favorites. Their votes, combined with those of our own panel, determined the caption to appear under the picture right here on the Official Houston Zoo Blog this week. We hope you’ll come back for the fun EVERY FRIDAY.

Here is the picture that was posted - taken by Houston Zoo volunteer Juile Bearman –with the top voted caption by Rebecca Dolen Bowers ! ** Insert a Halloween Happy Dance!**

YOUR VOTES HELP DETERMINE THE WINNERS!

Darling, please tell me where you get your hair done. That is the exact color I was going for.

FIRST RUNNER UP:

 

Sandra Fleming Studios: Take a deep breath. Does it hurt here? What about here? _________________________________________________________________________________

A SECOND RUNNER UP:

Donna Weaver: “We’ll have to let those trousers out just a little around the waist.

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HONORABLE MENTIONS:

 

Sharika Brooks: ARE THEY SURE IM NOT A CHAMELEON?

Paul White: cousin it!

Shannon Smith Stilwell: Oooh a well ventilated little Tamarin casa just for me. Now, how do I get in?

Randall Laughlin: I swear I left my keys right here!

Stephanie Feller Lundy: I….I think i love you!

Kathern Sparks: “Orange you glad it’s Halloween? I know I am!” 4

Lori Schumacher: I’ll hide behind you and when they walk up I’ll jump out and yell, “Boo!” 4

Christine Forisha: Hey bud, have you tried the Hair Club for Primates? Works great!

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Thanks for joining in the fun!

And please come on back for next Friday!

You can come get your very OWN pumpkin from our pumpkin patch on any one of the TEN, count ‘em TEN days of Zoo Boo this year. Visit our website for dates and details. Times vary, so be sure to check. See you ghouls, goblins and geeks there!


FOTO Friday Winner of the Week!

Posted by in Contest,Funny,Primates

Welcome to the Houston Zoo’s FOTO FRIDAY Caption Challenge results post from Friday, October 14!

Last Friday, we posted  not one but TWO photos on Facebook and asked you to leave your best caption in the comment section. Then readers could “like” each caption comment to vote for their favorites. Their votes, combined with those of our own panel, determined the caption to appear under the picture right here on the Official Houston Zoo Blog this week. We hope you’ll come back for the fun EVERY FRIDAY.

Here is the picture that was posted on Facebook last Friday, with the top voted caption by Julie Wood! ** Insert a Halloween Happy Dance!**

YOUR VOTES HELP DETERMINE THE WINNERS!

Picture # 1

It'll be better feng shui if I put the pumpkin over here.

 

FIRST RUNNER UP:

Stacey Ricks: JACK! My Orange Brotha from anotha Motha!

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A  SECOND RUNNER UP

 Carla Combs: Now, How am I supposed to light the candle in this big orange thing all my appendages are busy already !!!

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Honorable Mentions: 

Montero Aura: I Got This!

April Walker:  My pumpkin and I are just hanging around…

Rosie Villegas: Its mission impossible!

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FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, THERE IS A TIE FOR THE WINNING CAPTION! CONGRATUALTIONS TO Cassidy Lentsch and  Shannon Krugman. In honor of this momentus occasion, we will post two, count ‘em two of the pictures, so you each can see how your caption looks in the wining spot! SWEET!

This caption is from Shannon Krugman

Picture # 2

Ok kid, this is how were gonna do it. First we carve out the pumpkin. Then we put it on our head and walk right out of the gate just like all the other trick or treaters.

 

And this caption is from Cassidy Lentsch:

That tiger from last week thinks he's going to win the zoo pumpkin carving contest? HA! Now hand me the knife, Indah- one gourd-geous Mona Lisa coming up!

 

FIRST RUNNER UP:

Sandra Fleming Studios: You are going to eat this monkey biscuit and like it, Pumpkin! 
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A  SECOND RUNNER UP

Alma Garza Mescher: You do it your way and I’ll do it mine!

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THIRD RUNNER UP!
 
 Crystal Worley:  WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?
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Funny Honorable Mentions:

Cathleen Grauel Schlechte: Heyyyy! Can’t we get some alone time with our pumpkin please?

Kasi Silguero: Ready to get my carve on

Jennifer Hillier Rodriguez: I’m going to play this pumpkin just like Matthew McConaughey plays the bongos!

Guppy Man:  What do you mean, you are supposed to roast the seeds first? These tatse just fine!

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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!

Thanks for joining in the fun!

And please come on back for next Friday!

You can come get your very OWN pumpkin from our pumpkin patch on any one of the TEN, count ‘em TEN days of Zoo Boo this year. Visit our website for dates and details. Times vary, so be sure to check. See you ghouls, goblins and geeks there!


FOTO Friday Winner of the Week!

Posted by in Carnivores,Contest,Funny

Welcome to the Houston Zoo’s FOTO FRIDAY Caption Challenge results post from Friday, October 7!

Last Friday, we posted a photo on Facebook and asked you to leave your best caption in the comment section. Then readers could “like” each caption comment to vote for their favorites. Their votes, combined with those of our own panel, determined the caption to appear under the picture right here on the Official Houston Zoo Blog this week. We hope you’ll come back for the fun EVERY FRIDAY.

Here is the picture that was posted on Facebook last Friday, with the top voted caption by Alma Garza Mescher

YOUR VOTES HELP DETERMINE THE WINNERS!

I thought it was bobbing for apples, not pumpkins!

FIRST RUNNER UP:

 
Cassidy Lentsch:  With these vicious claws and teeth, I’m a shoe-in to win the pumpkin carving contest. Those bears are only getting second this year!

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A HILARIOUS SECOND RUNNER UP

 Mary Klumpp:  TAKE THIS CINDERELLA!

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THIRD RUNNER UP!
 
Tiffany Spain: Muahahaha… Linus will never find The Great Pumpkin here!!
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TOO MANY Funny Honorable Mentions:

Sandra Fleming Studios: Hey, do I have something stuck in my teeth? 

Randall Laughlin: What happened to just coughing up fur balls!

Blythe Smith McDonald: Nom-O-Lantern

 Dawneen Hebert:  ‎”Nice try pumpkin…. but you can’t escape my awesome pouncing skills!!!”

Sue Harmon-Astorga: I ordered Cafe Mocha – NOT Pumpkin Spice latte!!!!!

Barbara Blanchard Reed: I’m taking my pumpkin and going home!

Tom Burke: I can has punkin?

Margaret Margo Augustin: Does this make me look fat?_________________________________________________________________________________

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!

Thanks for joining in the fun!

And please come on back for next Friday!

You can come get your very OWN pumpkin from our pumpkin patch on any one of the TEN, count ‘em TEN days of Zoo Boo this year. Visit our website for dates and details.  Times vary, so  be sure to check.  See you ghouls, goblins and geeks there!


FOTO Friday Winner of the Week!

Posted by in Bears,Contest,Funny

Welcome to the Houston Zoo’s FOTO FRIDAY Caption Challenge results post from Friday, September 30!

Last Friday, we posted a photo on Facebook and asked you to leave your best caption in the comment section. Then readers could “like” each caption comment to vote for their favorites. Their votes, combined with those of our own panel, determined the caption to appear under the picture right here on the Official Houston Zoo Blog this week. We hope you’ll come back for the fun EVERY FRIDAY.

YOUR VOTES HELP DETERMINE THE WINNERS!

Here is the picture that was posted on Facebook last Friday, with the top voted caption by Tiffany  Alton- Herrmann!!!  Everybody ROAR!

Darn you Yogi Bear!

 FIRST RUNNER UP:

Sandra Fleming Studios: Alrighty then Doctor . . . let’s hope for another successful organ transplant.

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SECOND RUNNER UP

Enchanted Forest: Heeeey BooBoo, It’s a pic-a-nic basket!

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THIRD RUNNER UP TRIFECTA!
Wendy Kolleski: I can’t bear this anymore, I’m hungry!!!!

Della Schapiro: I’ve had a long hard day… Where’s my Bud Light?

 Logan Crocker: alright guys the fun stops when you take away my beer….

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MANY Funny Honorable Mentions:

Bridget Robbins Haines: WHERE’S THE BEEF!?

Amanda Pinup’perfect Isbell: Aren’t polar bears supposed to be at the north pole? I’m telling Santa they took my Coca-Cola again and they are going on the naughty list!

Stacey Ricks: Who drank the last Coke? Grrrrrr……

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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!

Thanks for joining in the fun!

And please come on back for next Friday!


The Swap Shop Mystery Box Revealed

Posted by in Children's Zoo,Contest,Giraffes,Hoofed Stock,Just for Kids,Swap Shop

 

Mystery Box

Many of you who have been in the Swap Shop recently have seen the very large mystery box.  We are happy to finally announce what was in it!  Thanks to a generous donation from The Junior League of Houston, Inc.,  we now have a complete giraffe skeleton.  This was a 9 foot tall  juvenile male giraffe from Florida and died.  The crate was quite large 6′x3′x2′ and had to be brought into the Shop by fork lift.  The articulator (an expert that assembles skeletons) was here on the evening of Saturday September 17, to put it together. 

Articulator Mike working on the skeleton

 

During the week the box was here we held a contest to let kids guess what was in the box.  The only clues they had were: 1.  It is a skeleton 2. It is an entire skeleton 3. It may or may not be put together already in the box. 4. It is not an extinct animal.  We had so many wonderful guesses- everything from alligator to long horn to zebra.  We held a drawing Friday September 16,  and Cody Molandes was our winner – guessing that it was a giraffe!  He won 100 points to spend in the Swap Shop for his efforts! 

The finished skeleton

You never know what you’ll see in the Swap Shop.

Dont know about trading in the Naturally Wild Swap Shop?  Click here for more information.

 

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