A female southern white rhinoceros calf was born at Busch Gardens® Tampa October 16. The calf is healthy and is currently being cared for by mom with the Busch Gardens animal care team watching closely. Newborn white rhinoceros usually weigh about 150 pounds and can gain four pounds every day for the first year. […]
Continue reading …A newborn aardvark at Busch Gardens® Tampa is stealing the hearts of its caretakers, who are helping bottle feed the baby, which they characterize as unusual looking but adorable. The baby aardvark was born Sept. 18, 2015. It is healthy and is currently being cared for by its mother Izzy. While mother Izzy forages at […]
Continue reading …A male endangered western lowland gorilla was born at Busch Gardens® Tampa on Tuesday, Dec. 16 at 11:35 a.m. The baby is healthy and is currently being cared for by first-time mother Pele, with the Busch Gardens animal care team watching closely. This is the second successful gorilla birth at Busch Gardens and brings to […]
Continue reading …An extremely wet night played into the atmosphere this evening as Busch Gardens Tampa opened their annual Howl O Scream event. For 18 select nights this fall, Howl-O-Scream 2014 unleashes a new type of terror as Busch Gardens Tampa transforms into Florida’s top-rated Halloween event, complete with 300 acres of fears and frights, including new […]
Continue reading …The latest acts to perform during Bands Brew & BBQ at SeaWorld Orlando have just been announced and this week we see Sister Hazel and Larry The Cable Guy take the stage. Sister Hazel will play on Saturday 15th February and Larry The Cable Guy will be up on Sunday. Both shows will start at […]
Continue reading …Starting this Saturday, Feb.8 Bands, Brew & BBQ is back for its seventh straight year at Busch Gardens – Tampa, and it’s bigger than ever! Busch Gardens Tampa’s smokin’ hot festival is filling every Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 8 through March 9, with an unlimited sampling of more than 100 specialty and craft beers, saucy […]
Continue reading …Over the last 24 hours a lot of people have asked me about “Splash! Animals” after seeing them on the video I posted on this blog about the opening of “Cheetah Run” and “Cheetah Hunt.” Splash! Animals is a live art experience committed to the conservation of endangered animals. It is an award-winning conservation focused […]
Continue reading …Have you made your vacation plans for the Summer? If not, you’ll want to check out what’s going on in Orlando as there’s lots of new stuff going on at the theme parks this year. There’s a killer whale show, a new roller-coaster, a cheetah habitat, a zip-line ride over alligators and there’s also the […]
Continue reading …Last week this blog (click here for last weeks blog) covered the news that Busch Gardens is developing a new area, Cheetah Run and Cheetah Hunt, at its famous Tampa theme park, so I decided to trek the hour journey from Florida Leisure Vacation Home land to see what was going on. Here’s a couple […]
Continue reading …June is always a busy month in Florida and this year is no exception. Of course, the big news is that on 18th June The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is due to open to the public at Universal Orlando’s Islands of Adventure and it promises to be both exhilarating and exciting as it will […]
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