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Location
Accessibility
Easy access for children
Visitor tip
Plan for animal feeding experiences throughout your visit - reviewers highlight animal feeding (81 mentions) and lemur encounters (70 mentions) as top attractions. Arrive early to catch feeding times and interactive encounters with sharks, goats, llamas, and other animals.
Visitor tip
For families with strollers, note that the walkways are narrow and gravel-based, making stroller navigation challenging. Plan to spend most time on the outdoor exhibits (about 10 minutes for full walk-through), and consider bringing a carrier for younger children.
Quick Facts
- Type
- Zoo
- Highlights
- Touch tanks with sharks, animal encounters with lemurs and dingoes, petting zoo, capybara visits, dinosaur mini golf
- Interactive Experiences
- Hands-on animal encounters, feeding sharks and goats, reptile handling, enclosed animal experiences
- Location
- Stanton, MO
What visitors say
Okay so let me start by saying I love normal zoos and enjoy going. I left this place in literal tears over these animals. They have 1 bear, alone (also sad), in an enclosure that very small. Said bear kept trying to get its paw/nose…
They’re definitely trying their best to care for the animals, and I can appreciate that. But honestly, the enclosures for the larger animals felt really small. Also, the mini golf area had piles of animal feces right next to the course,…
This place is absolutely amazing 10/10 would recommend! We spent four hours here and honestly felt like we could have stayed even longer. The staff is incredible; they feel more like a close knit family than just employees. They were so…
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Did You Know?
- Wild Animal Adventures offers hands-on animal encounters where visitors can enter enclosures to interact directly with dingoes and lemurs, and feed sharks and alligators
- The attraction includes Dinosaur Adventure Mini Golf as a free included attraction with admission, combining paleontology education with recreational play
- Touch tanks with sharks and hands-on reptile areas allowing visitors to hold snakes and lizards represent interactive marine and reptile education programs
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