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Winter at the Columbus Zoo

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This YouTube video was produced by The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.

Ohio’s winter season brings a whole new kind of adventure, and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is full of surprises for families looking for fun, excitement, and memories. Many animals thrive in cooler temperatures, and some even love the snow! Watch red pandas playfully explore a wintery landscape or spot a majestic wolf lounging on snow-covered ground.

The adventure continues indoors, where you can warm up while discovering incredible animals up close. Explore the aquarium, marvel at gentle manatees, see baby elephants play, and come face-to-face with fascinating

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Mountain Chickadee: Winter Socialite

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This YouTube video was produced by the American Bird Conservancy.

Any season of the year, the Mountain Chickadee (Poecile gambeli) is a delight to encounter. In their breeding season, they form neighborhoods of adjacent territories in the conifer forests of western Canada and the U.S., which ring in the early spring dawn with dozens of cheerful whistled songs. In winter, groups of Mountain Chickadees are joined by other birds — nuthatches, woodpeckers, creepers, kinglets — to form large dispersed flocks that move together through the forest, following the chickadees’ namesake rallying call.

Mountain Chickadees are social birds, living in groups

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Brown Pelican: Painted Diver

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This YouTube video was produced by the American Bird Conservancy.

“A wonderful bird is the pelican; his bill can hold more than his belly can,” begins the limerick by Dixon Lanier Merritt. And it’s true — a pelican’s pouch can hold up to three times more than its stomach. This multi-purpose structure serves as a scoop, a cooling mechanism in hot weather, and as a trough for young pelicans, which retrieve food from their parents’ pouches.

Although the Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is the smallest of the world’s eight pelican species, it’s still a big bird at about four feet

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