2025 September Buzz

Experience Brew With Us

It's almost here! Join us on September 27 for Brew at the Zoo, our favorite fall fundraising event! It’s a great time to sample drinks, eat delicious food, and support animals.

VIP tickets are sold out, but GA tickets are $50 and GA DD tickets are $25! Get unlimited samples and a sampling cup, plus enjoy music, games, keeper chats along with unlimited train and carousel rides. Stay to rock out at the After Party with DJ Visionaries, included with all admission levels!

Brew starts at 4 pm for GA tickets (3 pm for VIPs). The After Party starts at 7 pm.

The Zoo is closed all day for Brew at the Zoo. Brew is only for adults 21+.

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Discount on Symbolic Adopts

Now that school has started, it’s a perfect time to symbolically adopt an animal at the Zoo! To celebrate, we’re discounting our adopts by 10%, no code needed. There are two great options, a digital adopt for $27and a classic adopt for $90. Each package helps support our animals by providing food, medication, enrichment, care, and more!

The digital adopt includes an email with a color photo, certificate of adoption, animal info sheet, coloring book to print at home, and a letter from our Executive Director. The classic adopt is a physical package that includes a plush, 4x6 color photo, certificate of adoption, animal info sheet, coloring book with crayons, letter from our Executive Director, and a Zoo bag. We’ll contact you to arrange pickup or shipping.

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What Animals Need

Did you know you could buy a toy for an red panda? Or help enrich a marmoset? You could even give a bird a new place to perch! Our zoo keepers have curated an Amazon Wishlist with enrichment and husbandry items that will help them do their jobs better and provide a greater quality of life for our animals.

Thank you for your support!

Fall Animal Encounters

Add something special to your Zoo visit! Animal Encounters are still available this fall, including capybara & anteater, flamingo, otter, sloth, and tamandua. At an Animal Encounter, you’ll get up close to one of your favorite animals, learn about them from a zoo keeper or educator, and engage with them in a unique, fun way.

Animal Encounters do not include admission to the Zoo.

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Masamba Makes A Big Move

Friends, we have some important news to share with you. Our beloved southern white rhino, Masamba, is making a big move. He's leaving the Potawatomi Zoo this fall and heading The Wilds, a 10,00-acre conservation center accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) in Cumberland, OH.

Although it’s bittersweet for us, it’s the start of what we hope is a thrilling new adventure for Masamba. He’ll be introduced to a crash of five to six female rhinos, with the goal of breeding and contributing to the white rhino population in zoos. Currently, Masamba is behind the scenes getting acclimated to his transport crate, but we’ll do our best to get you a chance to see him before he leaves. Stay tuned to our social media for updates!

Read the Press Release Here…