Wish List
Valentine's Day Wish List
Brighten up winter with a wild Valentine’s Day gift! Make the day special for Lincoln Park Zoo’s animals with gifts of sweet fruit and crunchy veggies.
Help the animals even more by sharing the fun with friends and family.
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Bouncing Baby
This Valentine’s Day, the Bolivian gray titi monkeys celebrate with a new family member. Help them party with the little one’s favorite veggies—eggplant and peppers!
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Crunchy Cupid
Treat the one-year-old white-cheeked gibbon this Valentine’s Day! Get him and his whole family a salad to share. Cucumbers, peppers and iceberg lettuce will keep these apes swinging on ropes all day long.
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Cutest Couple
The red pandas win “Cutest Couple at the Zoo” year after year. Give them some tender bamboo to munch for a moonlit dinner.
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Feathers and Figs Help the Blyth’s hornbills make Valentine’s Day one to remember with figs and papaya. The birds trade these sweet treats as a form of courtship.
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Ga Ga for Grass
It might be a stretch for us, the giraffes easily reach the hay put high in the trees of their exhibit. This Valentine’s Day, give them some hay to share!
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Goodies for the Group
Give the chimpanzees something they can all share—fruit salad! Blueberries, pineapple, pomegranate and star fruit will be a sweet snack for the apes.
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Hippo Happiness
Break the ice between the two pygmy hippos with a romantic Valentine’s Day feast full of grapes, oranges and bananas!
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Literal Love Birds
Instead of throwing rice to celebrate love, toss some cereal at this pair of lovebirds. Not for a wedding…just for a snack!
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Otter Hors D'oeuvres
For the otters, this time of year is all about cuddles and snacks. They already have the cozy wood chips for the cuddling—help the otters out with fresh fish!
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Romantic Rhinos
Scrumptious squash are the perfect entrée for a rhinoceros Valentine’s dinner. Give the gift of butternut and spaghetti squash today!
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Scrumptious Seafood
Give the storks a fancy seafood dinner for their Valentine’s date. Fresh fish they can snap up with their beaks are just the tasty treat they crave.
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Sister Celebration
Give the lynx sisters something to celebrate this Valentine’s Day with whole pumpkins to bat back and forth. The cats can gobble them when the games are over!
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Takin Treats
The male Sichuan takin has three adult females in his group. Provide them all crunchy carrots and appetizing apples to share!
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Tomatoes for Two
The tigers may be world-renowned carnivores, but this year’s date night calls for something special. Tomatoes—sweet and juicy fruit the tigers will devour.
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Zesty Zebras
While your human loved ones may enjoy something sweet, give the zoo’s zebras something salty. Salt licks are a favorite for all the zebras and will last all month!
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