Adopt any animal at the Zoo with a traditional (mailed) or digital (emailed) adoption, and help us continue to provide outstanding care.

  1. Pick your animal from the List of All Zoo Animals Available for Adoption provided below.
  2. Click on your adoption level choice to proceed to the shopping cart.

 

Additional Details:

  • Gift any adoption simply by choosing to once in your shopping cart.
  • Consider maximizing your adoption donation at any level by making it a digital adoption at check out. Materials are then sent via email and more of your money benefits the animal(s) you adopt.
  • Higher level traditional adoptions include a plush animal if available, yet they are different than Wild Adoption Gift Packages offered for our featured animals (Wild Adoption Gift Packages can be found HERE).

Adoption Level Choices

(The giraffe adoption is shown here as an example. You will enter/choose your specific animal for adoption during checkout.)

List of All Zoo Animals Available for Adoption*

MAMMALS

REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS & INVERTEBRATES

BIRDS & FISH

  • African Cape porcupine
  • African elephant
  • African lion
  • Alaska moose
  • American beaver
  • Amur leopard
  • Amur tiger
  • Asiatic black bear
  • Black and white Colobus monkey
  • Black rhinoceros
  • Black-footed ferret
  • Bornean orangutan
  • Canada lynx
  • Chinchilla
  • Degu
  • Domestic ferret
  • Domestic goat
  • Domestic guinea pig
  • Domestic rabbit
  • Domestic rat
  • Flying squirrel
  • Golden lion tamarin
  • Grizzly bear
  • Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth
  • Madagascar lesser tenrec
  • Matschie’s tree kangaroo
  • Mexican wolf
  • Mountain lion
  • Mountain tapir
  • Naked mole rat
  • Nile hippopotamus
  • North American river otter
  • Okapi
  • Patagonian mara
  • Prehensile-tailed porcupine
  • Pygmy hedgehog
  • Red River hog
  • Red-necked wallaby
  • Reticulated giraffe
  • Ring-tailed lemur
  • Rock hyrax
  • Rocky Mountain goat
  • Slender-tailed meerkat
  • Striped skunk
  • Sumatran orangutan
  • Three-banded armadillo
  • Virginia opossum
  • Warthog
  • Western Lowland gorilla
  • White-cheeked gibbon
  • African bullfrong
  • African pancake tortoise
  • African spurred tortoise
  • American alligator
  • Andean (Honduran) milksnake
  • Argentine red tegu
  • Asian forest scorpion
  • Axolotl
  • Ball python
  • Baja blue rock lizard
  • Bavay’s giant gecko
  • Black widow spider
  • Blue death-feigning beetle
  • Blue-tongued skink
  • Blue Spiny Lizard
  • Blue tree monitor
  • Bornean (Blood) short-tailed python
  • Bullsnake
  • Burmese python
  • California kingsnake
  • Cane toad
  • Chilean rose-haired tarantula
  • Chuckwalla
  • Collared lizard
  • Crested gecko
  • Curlyhair tarantula
  • Dairy cow isopod
  • Desert blonde tarantula
  • Desert kingsnake
  • Eastern box turtle
  • Egyptian tortoise
  • Emperor newt
  • European glass lizard
  • Fire skink
  • Fruit chafer
  • Giant African millipede
  • Gila monster
  • Gray-banded kingsnake
  • Greenbottle blue tarantula
  • Hermit crab
  • Honeybee
  • Kenyan sand boa
  • Kingsnake
  • Leopard gecko
  • Madagascar hissing cockroach
  • Mandarin trinket snake
  • Moroccan spiny-tailed lizard
  • Nelson’s milksnake
  • Ornate box turtle
  • Pearl River map turtle
  • Prehensile-tailed skink
  • Mandarin trinket snake
  • Rainbow whiptail lizard
  • Red-eared slider
  • Red-eyed tree frog
  • Red-footed tortoise
  • Rosy boa
  • Simandoa cave roach
  • Spotted python
  • Star tortoise
  • Stimson’s python
  • Tokay gecko
  • Veiled chameleon
  • Western hognose snake
  • Western pond turtle
  • White’s tree frog
  • Woma python
  • Wyoming toad
  • Abyssinian ground hornbill
  • African penguin
  • Australian shelduck
  • Azure-winged magpie
  • Bald eagle
  • Barn owl
  • Budgerigar (budgie / parakeet)
  • Cape griffon vulture
  • Cattle egret
  • Cockatiel
  • Domestic Chicken
  • East African crowned crane
  • Emu
  • Helmeted guinea fowl
  • Indian blue peafowl (peacock)
  • Koi
  • Muscovy duck
  • Pink-backed pelican
  • Princess parrot
  • Rainbow trout
  • Western screech owl
  • Von der Decken’s hornbill

 
*If you wish to adopt at a level that is not shown, please contact the Membership office at 719-424-7830 or 719-424-7893

NOTE: All adoptions are valid for one year. Like all living creatures, Zoo animals may become ill, pass away or move to another zoo temporarily or permanently. If the animal leaves for any reason, your symbolic adoption can be transferred to another animal for the remainder of your adoption year.
(For all adoption packages that include a plush, a $6.95 shipping and handling fee is added to the total donation.)