Price Members (Adults & Children): $17
Non-members (Adults & Children): $20
Children under age 2: $7
Join us for a delicious and exciting Breakfast or Lunch with the Easter Bunny. Before you meet the Easter Bunny have fun making an Easter craft, decorating a cookie, and meeting some of the Zoo’s most unique animals. If you wish to have your photo taken with the Easter Bunny, please remember to bring your camera.
Breakfast will include scrambled eggs, home fries, sausage, French toast sticks, fruit salad, and bagels. Lunch will be complete with chicken fingers, hot dogs, macaroni & cheese, potato chips, and granola bars. Vegetarian meals are available upon request.
Registration for the event will begin on Thursday, Feb. 2.
Cost
Members: $48 (includes one adult and one child). Each additional child is $24.
Non-members: $64 (includes one adult and one child). Each additional child is $32.
This is an opportunity for children ages 8-12 to study ocean habitats and the animals that call them home. We will examine the threats facing today’s ocean habitats and come up with solutions to these problems. Participants will meet an aquarist that will provide them with a behind-the-scenes look at some of the PPG Aquarium’s most famous residents.
Please note the age requirement and that each child must be accompanied by an adult. You cooperation will ensure an enjoyable program for all.
Cancellation Policy: There are no refunds for this program, however if you call in advance of the program date you will receive an 80% credit of your fees paid that you could use for a future program.
The gibbons at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium were busy swinging around and playing the other day. The blonde one, Mai, lost her arm more than decade ago, but still gets around as good as she ever did. The dark one is Picard, her male companion.
Date Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012SOLD OUT
Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 REGISTER NOW
Time
6-9 p.m.
Cost Members: $70 per person
Non-Members: $75 per person
Join us for dinner, cocktails, and an adults-only presentation by Henry Kacprzyk, who will reveal the intimate secrets of exotic animal mating. From the most violent mating battles to the subtlest courting rituals, learn how the animals of land, sea, and air find love in the wild.
Along with Henry’s presentation, the night includes an open bar with cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, a formal dinner with dessert, docents with small animals, and a special Water’s Edge animal event. [click to continue…]
Sesame Street Live is coming to Pittsburgh, and we’re giving away a family four-pack of tickets*.
In the show, Super Grover loses his powers, and Elmo and friends must help him become super again.
To enter to win, invent a Zoo superhero and tell us about his or her superpowers in the comment field below. At 3 p.m. today, we’ll give the tickets to our favorite. Second place gets four Zoo tickets.
*Family four-pack is good for select dates and times.
Update: We have a winner — Jim Gordon with Captain B., the crime-fighting, homeless-sheltering super-beaver. Jim gets the Sesame Street tickets.
Second place goes to Mark Livesay, with Captain Silverback, the gorilla who stop people from putting graffiti on the African painted dogs and puts banana peels under the feet over evil-doers. Mark gets four Zoo tickets.
Runners-up are Julie Puckey, with Cheerio the spunky monkey, Rick with Karate Kangaroo, and the Great Octo (and an epic poem to boot!). You all get a big thanks from us :-)
Cupcakes are all the rage these days. Join the Zoo’s very own Chef Jess as she shows you how to make cupcakes gone wild! After a delicious breakfast, you’ll turn basic cupcakes into edible masterpieces and then head out into the Zoo to walk off the calories and see some of the animals that inspired your culinary creativity. All participants should be ages 13 or older. (Younger pastry chefs can attend our Cupcake Critter class.)
The Zoo will be closed on Dec. 25, Christmas Day, so that employees can spend the day with their families. We are also closed on Jan. 1 for New Year’s Day. Otherwise, we are open throughout the holidays from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., and we hope to see you here!
And if you’re looking for a fun, family-friendly way to celebrate New Year’s with your kids, we have Noon Year’s Eve on Dec. 31. The fun starts at 11 a.m.
The newest addition to the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium isn’t just a polar bear, she’s something of a cougar.
Kobe is an 11-year-old, 700-pound female polar bear who is looking for love. She arrived in Pittsburgh several weeks ago (by way of Tuscon Arizona’s Reid Park Zoo) with the intention of meeting her mate. Koda is a 7-years-young male polar bear who has just reached his prime. Kobe will meet the public on Thursday, and if things go according to plan, Kobe and Koda will soon be snuggling and the Pittsburgh Zoo will be welcoming a new baby polar bear. [click to continue…]
Want to win a behind the scenes tour at the Zoo? This is your big chance.
The #1 Cochran Zoobaru will be at five locations around Pittsburgh. The first person to approach the driver and say, “Take me to the [insert your favorite animal here]” wins a tour for four people*.
