Wish List

As warm weather slowly returns, Lincoln Park Zoo springs to life. Animals explore their outdoor habitats, eager to dig, climb, and bask in the sunshine. Throughout the zoo, trees and shrubs are turning green as the zoo’s gardens explode with more than 850 species of plants and flowers.

This month’s Wish List features unique items to help the zoo—and the animals who live here—welcome spring in style. Thank you for your support!

Lincoln Park Zoo donation

Support the critical care, community, and conservation work that takes place at your free zoo every day.

$25.00
It Ain’t Easy Being Green

Did you know that more than 20,000 crickets, 20,000 mealworms, 12,000 waxworms, 12,000 superworms, and 100 nightcrawlers are delivered to Lincoln Park Zoo every week? These insects are used to feed the zoo’s many resident insectivores, like the green tree python at Regenstein Small Mammal-Reptile House. Make this March extra-special and purchase a buggy feast for your favorite insect-eater.

$8.00
42 Shares Needed
How Does Your Garden Grow?

Healthy plants need good dirt! Compost and soil amendments improve the health and vigor of our gardens. Keep our gardens growing from root to tip with an infusion of new soil!

$6.00
44 Shares Needed
Taste the Rainbow

Egyptian fruit bats are always on the hunt for a sweet treat. Their long muzzles help them chow down on favorites, like pears, apples, grapes, and bananas. You won’t need echolocation to find this perfect itemselect a share of a delectable fruit medley for the bats!

$7.00
SOLD OUT
Sn-“axolotls”

Axolotls, a species of salamander, will eat anything from fish to arthropods. Lincoln Park Zoo enhances the resident axolotls’ diet with nutritious abystoma pelletsspongy pellets made of fish meal and other seafood. Supply an axolotl with a superior salamander snack today!

$4.00
36 Shares Needed
You Can’t Stop the “Beet”

Lincoln Park Zoo’s Nutrition Center formulates specialized diets to meet the many nutritional needs of all the animals that call the zoo home. For the hoofed animals, this usually entails a grain-based diet combined with vegetables for a fresh fiber boost! Critically endangered Bactrian camels get their dose of daily dietary fiber from beet pulp. Give the camels’ mealtime a boost with a yummy beet treat!

$4.00
33 Shares Needed
Leopard’s Lark

Snow leopards are fierce predators powerful enough to take down prey as large as a yak. Here at the zoo, resident snow leopards Kennedi and Ozzy enjoy a carnivorous diet that includes snacking on meaty bones. Put a spring in the leopards’ steps with bounty of bones.

$12.00
30 Shares Needed
Once Upon-a Iguana

The Jamaican iguana pair at Regenstein Small Mammal-Reptile House enjoys a smorgasbord of fresh produce, leafy greens, and insects in their diet. To ensure the reptiles get balanced nutrition, keepers dust insects with a superfine calcium powder, then let the iguanas hunt for them throughout their habitat. Help keep the iguanas healthy and strong by providing them some calcium powder.

$5.00
29 Shares Needed
Dreaming of Greens

Fresh leaves and plants are perfect treats for many herbivores, from the tallest giraffe to the slowest tortoises. Saplings are pulled from a dedicated browse garden on zoo grounds in order to provide the freshest locally-grown leafy greens possible. Browse is a perfect snack to encourage each animal’s foraging behaviors while providing a nourishing meal. Share a “salad on a stick” with your favorite herbivore by helping us plant a new crop of leafy and delicious trees!

$9.00
27 Shares Needed
Pillows for Armadillos

Although many animals at Lincoln Park Zoo are active throughout the day, nocturnal armadillos nestle in their beds and snooze until the sun goes down. Armadillos nest in raw materials, like cardboard, and close their shells into balls to retain heat while they sleep. Provide some cozy new bedding material for the armadillos this spring!

$10.00
59 Shares Needed
Time to “Seal”-abrate

March 22 is International Day of the Seal. Help us celebrate at Lincoln Park Zoo with tasty gelatin snacks. The seals at Kovler Seal Pool are naturally curious, excellent swimmers, and avid puzzle solvers. To pique the seals’ curiosity, keepers will place yummy treats like gelatin into cap feeders and throw them into the pool. The savvy swimmers will use their problem-solving skills to get to the tasty morsels inside. Celebrate the seals with some gelatin snacks.

$9.00
40 Shares Needed
You’ve Got To Be “Squidding” Me!

To create an exciting challenge for the Asian small-clawed otters at Regenstein Small Mammal-Reptile House, keepers put live fish and squid inside grapevine balls, challenging the otters to “fish” out their meal with dexterous paws. Make mealtime an enriching experience with the purchase of some delicious squid!

$9.00
18 Shares Needed
“Lettuce” Celebrate!

In the wild, Hoffmann’s two-toed sloths are nocturnal, feeding on lettuce, leaves, and fruit. Though sloths are some of the slowest-moving animals at Lincoln Park Zoo, you’d be surprised how quickly Oro can move for his favorite snackcrunchy lettuce! Show your love for Luigi with lots of leafy lettuce.

$7.00
14 Shares Needed
“Paws”-itively Amazing

This month, African lion Pilipili celebrates his second birthday. It’s hard to imagine that just two years ago, Pilipili was a newborn cub who only weighed a couple of pounds. Now he is nearly full grown and can be clearly distinguished from the females of the pride by his growing mane. Help us celebrate Pilipili with meaty bones and other delicious treats!

$12.00
23 Shares Needed
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