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2300 Steele St. Denver, CO 80205

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Featuring the Lorikeet Adventure open-air aviary, the eight-acre Predator Ridge re-creation of the Samburu National Reserve in Kenya, Tropical Discovery, a climate-controlled ecological habitat including the Dragons of Komodo exhibit; Primate Panorama, a five-acre, world-class facility providing a natural habitat for more than 25 endangered primate species; rides on the Conservation Carousel and more.

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Maps available at the zoo welcome center or online.
Answer the Call of the Wild Program

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The Denver Zoo accepts donations of old cell phones for recycling to receive funds for zoo upkeep. Leave yours in the drop box in the guest service...

2012 | Best Love Match

These two polar bears are bonkers for each other. Before Lee came to the Denver Zoo last year, Cranbeary was a ten-year-old widow whose romance with Frosty was short-lived, since the bear had succumbed to liver cancer a month after Cranbeary arrived in Denver. But Lee, a handsome twelve-year-old from Detroit, seems to have filled that gap nicely. The two bears spend their days frolicking in the habitat's pool, Dirty Dancing style, and then shamelessly spooning in public. More »
2011 | Best First Date for Cat Ladies

Looking for a way to make up for a dip in donations due to the lagging economy, the Denver Zoo came up with an event that's both money-making and, if things go well, baby-making: the Singles Safari, a one-night party at which 500 men and 500 women wander the zoo, looking for love and stopping by various "Ask Me" stations, where zookeepers explain the horny details of polar-bear breeding and elephant sex. If the singles get lucky and become couples, the zoo also now offers Date Night, which,... More »
2011 | Best Denver Zoo Animal Babies

Picking the cutest animal babies is kind of like choosing the prettiest children; there's something vaguely Toddlers & Tiaras about the whole thing, and it makes us worry that we're damaging the self-esteem of all the other, uglier baby animals. That said, the four Amur tiger cubs born at the zoo last June are by far the most adorable, fluffy, blue-eyed mammals this town has seen in quite some time. Way cuter than the four Komodo dragons hatched in October, who we're sure will grow up to... More »

Out of Africa

By Jenn Wohletz | Thu, December 22, 2011

Connecting the dots for why you should celebrate Kwanzaa at the Denver Zoo is as easy as an urban African safari -- which is exactly what event organizers have in mind for the celebration that starts tonight. "Making cultural connections," explain... More »
Second Helping: Mile High Vienna

By Laura Shunk | Tue, June 28, 2011

At the tender age of incredibly-awkward-teenager, I was packed, along with an econo-sized bottle of zit cream and my discman, into my family's mini van for a summer road trip through the romantic Midw... More »
It's a Zoo in Here!

By Bree Davies | Thu, May 26, 2011

The Denver Zoo kicks off its summer series today, offering up action-filled animal shows, refreshed tropical exhibits and, for the littlest visitors, new things to climb on. Included in the price of admission are such amphitheatre productions as “... More »
Caution: A herd of bull elephants is coming to the Denver Zoo

By Melanie Asmar | Thu, July 09, 2009

Raw testosterone leaks from slits on either side of their broad faces, running in rivulets down the wrinkled folds of their gray skin like liquid sideburns. The smell is acrid; one elephant researcher even described it as "evil." It's a stench tha... More »
Poo Power at the Denver Zoo

By | Thu, July 09, 2009

One elephant produces a lot of poop — nearly 200 pounds per day, on average. Twelve elephants produce a shitload. It was that fact that got George Pond, the Denver Zoo's vice president for planning and capital projects, thinking. Would there be a... More »

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2300 Steele St. Denver, CO 80205

303-376-4800

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2012 | Best Love Match

2011 | Best First Date for Cat Ladies

2011 | Best Denver Zoo Animal Babies

By Jenn Wohletz | Thu, December 22, 2011

By Laura Shunk | Tue, June 28, 2011

By Bree Davies | Thu, May 26, 2011

By Melanie Asmar | Thu, July 09, 2009

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