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• Bringing the Zoo to You
• Bringing the Zoo to You – 2020
• Bringing the Zoo to You – 2021
• Bringing the Zoo to You – 2022
• Bringing the Zoo to You – 2023
• Camp Zoofari TV
• Celebrating Our Centennial
• Centennial Mural Project
• Conservation Map
  • African Wildlife
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  • Galápagos and Ocean Wildlife
• CRM Testing Page
• Current Saving Wildlife School Partnerships
• Eliminating Single-Use Plastic Straws
• Emergency Zoo Fund
• Find us on Cameo!
• Holiday Gift Guide
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• I.D.E.A. Team
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• Prairie Pollinator Pathways
• Protect the Pride
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• Start Your Journey
• Valentine’s Day Gift Guide
• Valentine’s Day Gift Guide
• Watch Tupelo and Baylor Play in a Baby Pool
• Welcome to the Zoo!
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• See them. Save them.
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• Save Wildlife
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Encounters

Animals

• African Lion
• African Painted Dog
• African Spur Thighed Tortoise
• Amazon Milk Frog
• American Alligator
• Ankole Cattle
• Asian Elephant
• Asian Small-Clawed Otter
• Attwater’s Prairie Chicken
• Baird’s Tapir
• Bald Eagle
• Black Bear
• Black Mamba
• Black-and-Gold Howler Monkey
• Blue Duiker
• Blue-Billed Curassow
• Blue-Throated Macaw
• Bonnethead Shark
• California Sea Lion
• Capybara
• Cheetah
• Chilean Flamingo
• Chimpanzee
• Clouded Leopard
• Common Clownfish
• Coquerel’s Sifaka
• Cougar
• Cownose Ray
• Domestic Goat
• Eastern Bongo
• Fossa
• Galápagos Tortoise
• Giant Anteater
• Giant River Otter
• Golden Lion Tamarin
• Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin
• Gorilla
• Grant’s Zebra
• Green Anaconda
• Grey Crowned Crane
• Houston Toad
• Humboldt Penguin
• Jaguar
• King Cobra
• Komodo Dragon
• Malayan Tiger
• Malaysian Painted River Terrapin
• Masai Giraffe
• Meerkat
• Moon Jellyfish
• Naked Mole Rat
• North American River Otter
• Northern White-Cheeked Gibbon
• Ocelot
• Okapi
• Orangutan
• Ostrich
• Panamanian Golden Frog
• Pangolin
• Patas Monkey
• Red Panda
• Red River Hog
• Red-Bellied Piranha
• Reticulated Python
• Ring-tailed Lemur
• Sea Turtle
• Sebas’s Short-Tailed Bat
• Siamang
• Southern White Rhinoceros
• St. Vincent Amazon Parrot
• Vulture
• Wattled Curassow
• White-faced Saki Monkey
• Whooping Cranes

Upcoming Events

• TXU Energy presents Dinosaurs

  March 8 - September 2

• Shasta Guards the University of Houston Class Rings

  Friday, April 26, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

• May Member Morning

  Saturday, May 4, 8:00-9:00 a.m.

• June Member Morning

  Saturday, June 1, 8:00-9:00 a.m.

• July Member Morning

  Saturday, July 6, 8:00-9:00 a.m.

• August Member Morning

  Saturday, August 3, 8:00-9:00 a.m.

• September Member Morning

  Saturday, September 7, 8:00-9:00 a.m.

• Zoo Ball 2024

  6:00 p.m. to Midnight, Saturday, October 19, 2024