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ROYAL OAK, Mich., 

The holidays may be over but the fun is just getting started for the animals at the Detroit Zoo. Many of their habitats will be “spruced up” this week – beginning Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016 – when they are given recycled holiday evergreen trees to play with, roll around, strip and tear apart. Detroit Zoo […]

ROYAL OAK, Mich., 

Experience the magic of the Detroit Zoo in the wintertime on Wild Winter weekends January 16-17 and February 6-7, 2016.  The annual family-friendly events feature children’s music, zookeeper talks, games and crafts.  Wild Winter activities take place at the Ford Education Center from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and are free with Zoo admission. “The […]

ROYAL OAK, Mich., 

The Detroit Zoo smashed its modern-day attendance record in 2015, attracting 1,476,378 visitors. The previous record, set in 1997, was 1,364,905. This marks the tenth consecutive year the Zoo’s attendance has exceeded one million. Wild Lights – the Detroit Zoo’s annual holiday light display presented by Bank of America – drew more than 144,000 guests, […]

ROYAL OAK, Mich., 

With most of southeast Michigan under a winter storm warning Monday night, the majority of ticket holders to the Detroit Zoo’s Wild Lights were unable to see the holiday light display. The Zoo will honor those and any other unused tickets on the two remaining nights, Dec. 30 and 31, 5:30 to 9 p.m. “Driving […]

ROYAL OAK, Mich., 

As completion of the Polk Penguin Conservation Center draws near, 20 of its future residents have landed at the Detroit Zoo.  The aquatic birds – 10 females and 10 males – arrived earlier this month via FedEx from an aquarium in California and are chilling in a special quarantine area at the Penguinarium.  The newest […]