Seeing animals on your visit

Seeing Animals On Your Visit

How to make the best out of your visit to Auckland Zoo

One of the great things about visiting the Zoo is that you see and experience different things each time, this may include seeing the elephants going for a walk around the Zoo, or a newly born animal for the first time! However, you may come across an enclosure where you cannot see the animal(s).

We realise that seeing the Zoo animals is a priority for our visitors, and we make every effort to help achieve this. One of the best ways to check out the animals is to go along to an eye-to-eye keeper encounter (run at scheduled times).  It is also a good idea to check back later in the day, they may have returned outside when you get back.

If you don't see an animal in their enclosure, this may be for a number of reasons, including:

• The warm weather is keeping our animal in shaded areas
• The cold weather has taken our animal indoors
• The animal is visiting the Vet or having a checkup
• Our animals are off display whilst keepers are cleaning their enclosure or preparing enrichment items for them
• Work on the enclosure is taking place.  For details on maintenance works, click here

For more visiting tips please click here.