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Open windows to discovery during these hour-long tours with expert staff! Enjoy a breakfast buffet at 8:30 a.m. prior to your tour.
Group sizes range from 10 to 16 people, age 8 and older. A paying adult must accompany children 8 to 11 years old. The cost is $55 per zoo member, $75 for nonmembers.
Big Cats-Winter
8-Adult
Explore the challenges of caring for lions, leopards, and tigers. See how our feline families figure into worldwide conservation, and finish up with a trip into the lion’s den.
Date and Time: 1/16 or 3/13
Location: Discovery Center
Parking: Discovery Center
Winter-Feasts for the Beasts
8-11 w/ Adult or 12+
Hungry for knowledge? Join us on a visit to the Zoo's Commissary, where staff tend to the dietary needs of over 2000 animals on a daily basis. See our specially equipped kitchen and meet our nutrionist who has to please our picky eaters & developed a version of dietary points in our to keep our animals healthy and trim.
Saturday, January 16
Location: Discovery Center
Parking: Discovery Center
Registration for this program has closed. Take a look at our other programs and check back next quarter for new program offerings.
Winter-Birds
8-11 w/ Adult or 12+
From tiny owls to huge condors and colorful birds of paradise our keepers work to keep our birds healthy and happy, part art part science. Find out how keepers help finicky eaters and tricks to encourage rare birds to build nests and breed.
Saturday 2/27 8:30-10:30
Location: Bocaditos
Parking: South Lot
Winter-Wolves
8-11 w/ Adult or 12+
Get the inside story on how the design of Regenstein Wolf Woods encourages a wide variety of natural wolf behaviors, and learn about the important contribution wolves make to their ecosystems.
Date and Time: Saturday February 27
8:30 - 10:30 am
Location: Bocaditos
Parking: South lot
Winter - Habitat Africa-The Forest
8-11 w/ Adult or 12+
When was the last time you visited central Africa? Travel to the Ituri Forest with expert staff who know how to care for everything from buffalo to chameleons. Meet a cat-size antelope, and very hairy pig, and the giraffe's closest cousin, the okapi.
Date and Time: Saturday March 13
8:30 - 10:30 am
Location: Discovery Center
Parking: Discovery Center
Winter- Reptiles
8-11 w/ Adult or 12+
Lions, tigers & bears may excite some people, but we know plenty who also love lizards, turtles & frogs. Come meet the keepers who are passionate about poison dart frogs and love nothing more than coaxing a picky snake into finishing a meal.
Date and Time: Saturday March 20
8:30 - 10:30 am
Location: Bocaditos
Parking: South lot
Winter-Animal Hospital
8-11 w/ Adult or 12+
What do you do when a bird breaks it's prostheic beak again? How about a tiger with a toothache or a polar bear with a sore paw? Join us on a tour of the Animal Hospital, where our team of top notch Veternarians care for our animal collection. See an operating table that can fit a polar bear,water testing lab and even a pharmacy dedicated solely to animals
Date and Time: Saturday March 20
8:30 - 10:30 am
Location: Bocaditos
Parking: South lot