Animals in Our Lives

Two exhibits, Animals in Art and In Living Color, highlight some of nature’s muses. Learn how animals use color to attract mates, warn predators away, and find each other. Young zoo-goers can make their own animal-inspired artwork.

What To See and Do

Animal Encounters: Noon, 12:30, 2:30, & 3:00 p.m.
Take a seat in our theater to meet zookeepers and some of their favorite animals, like alpacas, owls, and iguanas, and porcupines.

Color by the critters: Wild Art Wednesdays, year-round
Make cat’s eyes, sheep hats, and other animal-inspired crafts at a station surrounded by turtles, frogs, meerkats, and cockatoos.

Find rainforest romance.
Mates for life, Opus and Winola, the Zoo’s saki monkeys, exchange long looks and mutual grooming in their swath of rainforest.

Stop by our own “meerkat manor.”
See meerkats dig, play, and forage in the sand of the exhibit’s desert area.

See a gallery show.
Throughout the year, the zoo displays artwork from students of Pratt Institute who have illustrated animals around the park.

Take a break by the fishtank.
Watch Lake Malawi’s colorful fish swim by, and learn how they use colors to keep track of their school.