, said Sunday<\/a> that both of their roadrunners died in the last few months.<\/p>\nAmarilla, a 14-year-old female, was euthanized in April due to a growing cancer mass. She had been at ZooAmerica since 2011 and was described as a “people roadrunner” who would greet zookeepers and get along well with other animals.<\/p>\n
Amarilla was also the oldest living roadrunner within the Association of Zoos & Aquariums facilities, according to ZooAmerica.<\/p>\n
Dash, a 9-year-old male, died unexpectedly in late June. The zoo said it’s waiting for a necropsy to confirm his cause of death.<\/p>\n
Dash had been at the zoo since 2017 and was known to give Amarilla gifts and perform courtship rituals for her. <\/p>\n
ZooAmerica said it has no timeline on when it will receive more roadrunners for its habitats, but it’ll eagerly welcome them as soon as possible. <\/p>\n
The Garden is a bit quieter, the heat lamp area is less crowded and their sweet souls will be fondly remembered and missed by every worker and visitor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 ZooAmerica’s Southwest Garden will be a little less lively after the deaths of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-252529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}