ADOPT an Animal

Beauty Treatment

Swans have a special significance at Lincoln Park Zoo. The zoo was founded in 1868 with the gift of a pair of swans from New York’s Central Park. Today, you can still watch a beautiful pair of trumpeter swans—the largest waterfowl species in the world—gracefully glide across the Hope B. McCormick Swan Pond. Support their care and celebrate their historic link to Chicago’s free zoo with a special ADOPT gift package!

ADOPT a Trumpeter Swan

Just Zoo It

Otters are splashing, beavers are building and a bear is leaving its tree hollow to forage for food at the Pritzker Family Children's Zoo. Celebrate spring's arrival with a wild gift package that helps provide care for your favorite animal!

Choose Your Spring ADOPT

Why ADOPT an Animal from Lincoln Park Zoo?

Every animal at the zoo receives:

Expert care from keepers who oversee their daily lives
Specially formulated diets to meet diverse nutritional needs
Regular veterinary checkups to ensure each individual is in tip-top shape
Enrichment that prompts mental and physical stimulation and encourages animals to exhibit the same behaviors they would in the wild

Your ADOPT donation helps pay for all this and more!

• High resolution JPG photograph of your animal
• PDF personalized certificate of ADOPTion for you to print or email
• PDF animal fact sheet

Emailed within 3-5 days of your order

• Personalized certificate of ADOPTion
• Printed animal fact sheet
• 4x5 photograph of your animal printed on high quality museum archival paper
• Magnetized photo frame

Shipped within 7-10 days of your order

• Plush of your chosen animal
• Personalized certificate of ADOPTion
• Printed animal fact sheet
• 4x5 photograph of your animal printed on high quality museum archival paper
• Magnetized photo frame

Shipped within 7-10 days of your order

To purchase one of these or many other special ADOPT packages click an option above, visit Wild Things gift shop at Lincoln Park Zoo or call 312-742-2322. Don't see your favorite animal listed? Call us! All the animals at Lincoln Park Zoo are available for ADOPTion.