Wish List

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 1,000 types of plants and flowers.

Support Lincoln Park Zoo and purchase unique items to help the zoo—and the animals who live here—welcome spring in style. Thank you for your support!

Featured Item

Apples and Carrots for Zebras

$5 each

Keepers at the zoo’s South Loop provide around two apples and three pounds of carrots per week to each Grevy’s zebra. Provide a share of weekly snacks for Adia and her new foal, along with big sister Yabelo, dad Wester, and Delrie!

Buy Apples and Carrots

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Savvy Feeder for Grevy’s Zebras

$40 each

A unique feeder, provided to the Grevy’s zebras, encourages them to forage for food throughout their habitat while also promoting a natural feeding posture. Each one costs $400. Keep the zebras grazing through the summer by chipping in for a new feeder today!

Chip In for a Savvy Feeder

Boomer Ball for Wester

$25 each

Add an element of excitement to Wester the zebra’s time outside with a new boomer ball. Boomer balls are strong enough to stand up against even the toughest play. Each large boomer ball costs $1,000, so chip in for a new one today!

Buy a Boomer Ball

Mirrors for Mammals

$8 each

For pygmy slow lorises living at Regenstein Small Mammal-Reptile House, reflective objects can encourage exploration and play.

Buy Mirrors

Mussels and Clams for Otters

$9 each

The Asian Small Clawed Otters at Small Mammal-Reptile House eat mussels and clams as part of their daily diet! The otters love opening up the shells to get the meat inside.

Buy Mussels and Clams

Peanut Butter for Primates

$8 each

The Chimpanzees at the zoo use thin, flexible branches to dig out condiments like peanut butter from specially designed feeder tubes—similar to the way wild chimpanzees extract insects from real termite mounds.

Buy Peanut Butter

Cylinders for Crocodiles

$7 each

When a floating cylinder is introduced to a West African dwarf crocodile’s habitat, the crocodile takes to the water to play with the durable enrichment item—pushing it with a long snout and chomping down with powerful jaws.

Buy Cylinders

Honey for Black Bears

$10 each

North American black bears can’t resist the enchantingly sweet taste of honey! At Pritzker Family Children’s Zoo, keepers strategically smear it throughout the black bears’ habitat to encourage natural foraging behaviors.

Buy Honey

hibiscuses at the zoo

Summer Hibiscus

$6 each

The zoo’s collection has over 80 cultivars of perennial herbaceous hibiscus. Keep these beauties blooming year after year by purchasing some new hibiscus plants!

Buy Hibiscus

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