Honor Dad on his special day Enter the TBO.com Father's Day 2009 photo contest and you could win five single-day tickets to Universal Studios in Orlando. Second-place winner receives four tickets to Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa. ...more

June 11, 2009

Honor Dad on his special day Enter the TBO.com Father's Day 2009 photo contest and you could win five single-day tickets to Universal Studios in Orlando. The second-place finisher will receive four tickets to Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa. ...more

June 7, 2009

Honor Dad on his special day Enter the TBO.com Father's Day 2009 photo contest and you could win five single-day tickets to Universal Studios in Orlando. The second-place finisher will receive four tickets to Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa. ...more

June 3, 2009

Honor Dad on his special day Enter the TBO.com Father's Day 2009 photo contest and you could win five single-day tickets to Universal Studios in Orlando. The second-place finisher will receive four tickets to Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa. ...more

May 27, 2009

Honor dad on his special day Enter the TBO.com Father's Day 2009 photo contest and you could win five single-day tickets to Universal Studios in Orlando. Second-place winner receives four tickets to Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa. ...more

May 27, 2009

Lowry Park Zoo staff welcomed a baby manatee into the world this week, although the delivery complicates the staff's goal of nursing the baby's injured mother back to health. ...more

May 21, 2009

A tight economy and a steeply discounted admission drew huge crowds Sunday to the Lowry Park Zoo, which was charging $5 to get in for the day. ...more

May 18, 2009

In honor of Mother's Day, moms got free access to Lowry Park Zoo on Sunday as long as they were accompanied by a paying son or daughter, giving visiting mothers the chance to check out some of the new animal moms and their offspring. In the past year several babies have been born. The most notable are Annakiya, a rare pygmy hippopotamus; RanDee, a baby orangutan; Tamani, an African elephant; and two Angolan colobus monkeys, Polly and Kenzie. ...more

May 11, 2009

Water managers issued a fine of nearly $9,000 for unauthorized construction to the Polk County exotic-animal park owned by former Lowry Park Zoo President Lex Salisbury. ...more

April 29, 2009

Tampa Electric Co. and the University of South Florida will unveil plans today to build a solar array at Lowry Park Zoo. The system will generate 15 kilowatts of electricity and serve as an educational tool for students, officials said. ...more

April 20, 2009