Xcaret New Residents

Last December, Poloc, a young 12-year old male tapir, arrived at Xcaret from the Miami Metrozoo. After months of work and negations, our Conservation, Reproduction and Exhibition Plan for one of Mexico’s endangered species was finally implemented in coordination with the Guadalajara Zoo and Chiapas’ Zoomat.

Poloc was born in captivity and we hope he will reproduce at Xcaret.



In November a blue "Morphos peleides" butterfly arrived back at the park after an absence of 2 years.

Fortunately, we have been able to reproduce this species and have several in a 4-month larval stage, so they should be hatching from their cocoons very soon.