2025 November Buzz

Make Memories at The Gift of Lights

Enjoy twinkling lights, visit Santa, sip hot chocolate, and so much more during The Gift of Lights at the Potawatomi Zoo this winter. This great holiday tradition starts on November 28 and is available every Friday and Saturday from 5 to 9 pm, and every Sunday from 5 to 8 pm, through December 28.

A full, seasonal menu of food, hot drinks, and adult beverages is available in The Lodge café. Visitors can also ride the Zoo train (weather permitting) and feed the giraffes inside the giraffe barn visitor center.

Advance tickets are not required. Regular admission is $14 for people ages 15+, and $12 for people ages 14 and under. Babies 2 and under are free. Admission for Potawatomi Zoo members is $10 for adults and $8 for children.

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Winter Zoo-lympics Camp

Go for the gold at the Zoo! During winter break camp, December 29 to December 30, 9 am – 3 pm, campers will explore the wild world of animal champions and their amazing adaptations for cold weather. Through exciting games, hands-on challenges, and up-close encounters with animal ambassadors, campers will uncover what it takes to be a true “Zoo-lympian!”

Winter Break Zoo Camp is designed for grades K-6. It’s $80 per person. Zoo Members receive a 10% discount.

Fall Zoo Babies

Several babies were born this fall.

Our fennec fox pair, Lidi and George, had a litter of three kits—2 boys and a girl—on September 26. The kits are likely to make an appearance outside their nest box at around 5 weeks old, so visitors may get to see them soon.

Two Chacoan peccary peclets were born on October 16 to mother Saffron and father Stoop. And a baby white-faced saki monkey was born in the Learning Center on October 17 to mother Ella and father Marcelo, their fourth offspring together.

Visit the Zoo This Winter!

The Zoo is currently open from 10 am to 4 pm. The last day of the Zoo’s regular season is November 23.

After the Gift of Lights, the Zoo will be open every weekend from January 3 through March 15, 11 am to 4 pm, for Winter Days.