Riverside Discovery Center

When you’re a zookeeper, any and all of your talents can be put to good use! Zookeeper Soren used his violin to serenade some of the zoo animals today for enrichment. Cruz, the Blue and Gold Macaw, definitely enjoyed his turn. 🎶

Riverstone Bank presents Wild Lights which Starts tonight!! 5pm to 7pm Members -$4 Non-members $8 Santa and grinch will be here tonight! Concessions is open during event! Thanks to Tri-State Sprinkler Systems llc for sponsoring these tickets!

A week from today, Saturday November 30th, will be our Tea with the Tiger event to celebrate his first day on Exhibit! Between 9:30-11:30am, Come have some breakfast and some tea and watch this magnificent guy explore his new home. We will have a silent auction going on with a lot of Tiger themed items! We will have keeper talks about tigers at 10am and 11am. Starting now and going until the end of the event, you can come to the zoo and vote for the tiger’s name! At the conclusion of the event we will announce the winning name. Make sure to bundle up, but you don’t want to miss this event, come have a ball! 🐅

Here at the zoo, we love making things fun and exciting for our animals through enrichment! Enrichment is crucial as it helps animals exhibit natural behaviors, keeps them mentally and physically stimulated, and enhances their overall well-being. By providing diverse and engaging activities, we ensure our animals lead happy and healthy lives. You'll often hear our chimps pant hooting, which is their way of communicating that they are excited and feeling very social!

While the animals at the zoo wouldn’t complain about getting snacks from public, we ask that guests please do NOT feed the animals. Each animal receives a specialized diet, and giving them food that isn’t made for them can upset their stomach, and even make them severely sick. If you want to feed an animal at the zoo, get the pond food from our gift shop to feed the fish and ducks!

Only tonight and tomorrow night are left for our 36th Annual spooktacular!! Kid-friendly! Zoo memberships do not work for this event since it is our winter fundraiser.

Happy World Lemur Day!

Love being scared or enjoy watching your friends get scared this is the perfect event for you! Our last Scary night of the year! Come on out to our 36th Annual spooktacular Scary night. Tomorrow and Saturday are our last kid friendly nights you don't want to miss those!

At the zoo, we try to offer enrichment that stimulates natural behaviors for the animals. Each species will have different behaviors that they would be partaking in in the wild, and it’s up to keepers to help them fulfill these. If you have ever visited Kit the Fox, you have probably noticed all the holes around his exhibit. That’s because wild foxes will utilize digging for den making for shelter, to dig up prey living underground, and they will also dig holes to hide excess food to come back for later. Typically Kit stashes his own food, but yesterday zookeeper Mandi did the hiding and buried some mice in a tote of soil. Kit wasn’t too sure why he was presented with a tub of dirt at first, but he figured it out and found his snacks!

36th Annual Spooktacular

Come one, come all!

Keepers at the zoo are still finding more and more ways to keep squash interesting for the animals!This morning Zookeeper Mandi cut a hole in squash and hollowed out the inside to hide snacks inside and then put the cut out piece back. The hyenas got a pelleted carnivore diet hidden in theirs and the chimps got soaked primate biscuits with raisins. Some of the chimps walked right past the squash not realizing they were anything special, but Jewelle was the first to figure it out. Watch the video with the audio on to hear one happy chimp!

We don’t know about you, but the animals at the zoo sure are happy it’s pumpkin season again! 🎃 With the cooler weather this weekend, it is the perfect time to come to the zoo and see some of our more heat sensitive animals out and about enjoying the break in the heat. We also have our Fall Fun area open across from our Mountain Lion exhibit! We are open today from 9:30am-4:30pm with entry ending at 4:00pm.