ZOO OPENING TIMES
We are open every day of the year, including Christmas Day, from 9am until:
| 6.00pm | April - September |
| 5.00pm | October & March |
| 4.30pm | November - February |
2009 Events
Find out what's happening
at the Zoo in 2009.
Events include owl flights,
wildlife lectures, quiz nights and
a wine tasting.
Animals Available for Adoption
Animal Adoption - A Wild Gift Idea!
You can adopt any animal species at any level, please note that it is the animal species and not an individual animal.
Both Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park continue to improve and our animal collections continually evolve. If for some reason your adopted animal leaves our animal collection you will have the opportunity to choose another animal to support for the remainder of your adoption period.
AT EDINBURGH ZOO:
Mammals
addax, Alaotran gentle lemur, Amur leopard † , Asian golden cat, Asiatic lion, Azara's agouti, Aye Aye, Bactrian camel † , barbary macaque, binturong, black howler monkey, blue eyed black lemur, brown tufted capuchin, buff-cheeked gibbon, bush babies, bush dog, capybara, chevrotain, chimpanzee, Chinese goral, cotton-top tamarin, Diana monkey, dik dik, drill, Eastern bongo, Gelada baboon, giant anteater, Goeldi’s monkey, golden headed lion tamarin, greater one horned rhino, Grévy’s zebra, hog deer, hyrax, jaguar, Japanese serow, koala, Kune Kune pigs, laughing kookaburra, lesser kudu, L’Hoest’s monkey, long-nosed potoroo, Malayan tapir, maned wolf, margay, musk deer, North American tree porcupine, nyala, oriental small-clawed otter, owl faced monkey, painted hunting dog, pallas cat, Patagonian sealion, polar bear, purple faced langurs, pygmy hippopotamus, pygmy marmoset, ratel, red fronted lemur, red river hog, red titi monkey, ring-tailed lemur, souslik*, southern pudu, squirrel monkey, striped skunk, Sumatran tiger, swamp wallaby, vicuna, Visyan warty pig, West African warthog, white-faced saki monkey white-lipped deer, wolverine & yellow breasted capuchin.
† at Edinburgh Zoo, but moving to the Highland Wildlife Park in 2008
*hibernate for six months of the year
Birds
Bali starling, black stork, bleeding-heart dove, blue-crowned laughing thrush, blue-faced honeyeater, Chilean flamingo, Chiloe wigeon, Cochin Chinese red jungle fowl, common raven, crowned crane, crested pigeon, Darwin’s rhea, double-wattled cassowary, ducks (various), gentoo penguin, great grey owl, green-winged dove, hammerkop, king penguin, lilac-breasted roller, Malayan greater argus, marabou stork, Nicobar pigeon, ocellated turkey, rainbow lorikeet, red fronted macaw, red-legged seriema, rockhopper penguin, scarlet ibis, Socorro dove, Stanley's crane, Steller sea eagle, thick-billed parrot, Victoria crowned pigeon, violet turaco, vulturine guinea fowl & white-naped crane.
Reptiles
rhinocerous iguana
AT HIGHLAND WILDLIFE PARK
Mammals
Afghan urials, Amur tiger, arctic fox, bharal, bukhara deer, Carpathian lynx, Chinese goral, elk, European beaver, European bison, European forest reindeer, European otter, Himalayan tahr, kiang, markhor, Mishmi takin, mouflon, pine marten, Przewalski's wild horse, red deer, red panda, red squirrel, snow monkey, tundra reindeer, wild boar, wildcat, wolf & yak
Birds
capercaillie, chough eagle owl, Himalayan monal, Himalayan snowcock & snowy owl
CONTACT US
If you need any further information please email adoption@rzss.org.uk or call 0131 314 0305.
Edinburgh Zoo is owned by The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, registered charity no SC004064