Gift-giving is for the birds! ... or the bears... or the apes...

Make this holiday season brighter for your favorite Fort Worth Zoo animals by donating a new animal “toy!” The Zoo’s Animal Enrichment Program provides our animals with opportunities to express natural behaviors, such as foraging, exploring, playing, or simply resting comfortably. We accomplish this by providing variety within our animals’ environments each day – offering new food items, objects and toys, nest materials and novel scents. This includes all kinds of items for busy paws, tails, beaks, mouths and noses!

You can drop off your new animal “toy” at our Guest Relations office near the Zoo’s front gate or at our Administration Building on Colonial Parkway. Thank you for including the Fort Worth Zoo animals in your holiday season!

Click here to learn about the Fort Worth Zoo Animal Enrichment Program.

Animal Enrichment Wish List (new items only, please!)

• Parrot toys (for large birds)- found at pet stores

• Run-about-balls - found at pet stores
• Kong toys, large, medium and small sizes - found at pet stores
• Small animal roll-a-nest - found at pet stores
• Grapevine wreaths (all natural, untreated) - found at craft stores
• Spices (allspice, basil, catnip, chili powder, cilantro, cinnamon, cloves, ginger root, herbs de province, lemon grass, mustard, nutmeg, rosemary, sage) - found at grocery stores
• Extracts (almond, coconut, lemon, orange, peppermint, vanilla) - found at grocery stores
• Nature sounds CDs - found at music stores
• Pillow cases and sheets (cotton in white, ivory, brown or green) - found at department stores
• Large plastic buckets (5 gal) - found at home improvement stores
• Brown paper sacks (all sizes, unused) - found at grocery stores
• Assorted horse toys (Amazing Graze feeder, Buster Cube toy, Jolly Stall Snacks, Jolly Ball and Apple toys, Sway n Play feeder) - found online at: www.OttoEnvironmental.com.
• Boomer balls - found online at: www.BoomerBall.com.
• Treat Stik - found online at: www.TreatStik.com.