After my recent visit to the Zoo’s in San Diego I’ve had a craving for more wildlife. I don’t think I’ll be getting to Africa too soon but luckily Arizona has a few places worth visiting. I took a trip to the Wildlife World Zoo in West Phoenix and was pleasantly surprised! This isn’t the biggest, or most visited Zoo in the state but it does have the largest collection of rare and exotic animals.. and boasts an especially large amount of reptiles and fish that I haven’t seen anywhere else.

Hand Feeding Giraffes

One of the coolest things to do here was the giraffe feeding station. You stand on a tall wood platform where just the giraffe’s head can reach over, they stick their enormous tongues out and you hand feed them! It only costs a quarter (25 cents) for a handful of food.

Giraffe Feeding

Giraffe Feeding

Giraffe Long Tongue!

Check out a video of them sticking their tongues out to get fed!

 

The zoo offers a few other activities besides the giraffe feeding:

  • African Safari Train (5/8 mile ride) $4.00 each
  • Australian Boat Ride $2.00 each
  • Lory Parrot Feeding
  • Petting Zoo ($.50 for feeding)
  • Wildlife Demonstrations (3 times a day)
  • Skyride (pictured below) $4.00 each
  • Kids Carousel $2.50 each

Skyride

Reptiles

A very large collection of rare and exotic reptiles were on display.. indoors and out. Including the world’s rarest reptile, the all white albino alligator.

Albino Alligator

Galapagos Turtle

Alligator

Chameleon

Reptiles

Lizard

River Monsters

4 large buildings full of aquariums house sharks, eels, all sorts of fish, penguins, and a huge diversity of aquatic life. One of the more unique buildings was just for “river monsters” .. filled with fish and creatures full large teeth!

Alligator Snapping Turtle

Alligator Snapper

River Monster

Big Cats

Another first for me.. Not just one, but two white tigers! There was also a baby white tiger cub, panthers, jaguars and more! As a big cat lover I was very impressed!

White Tiger

White Tiger

White Tiger Cub

Leopard

Grumpy Leopard

Leopard

 The Usual Suspects

In addition to the more rarely seen animals and creatures they had many of the usual mammals hanging around that you’d expect to see at a zoo.

Camel

Camel

Camel

Zebra

Zebras

Rhinoceros

Smelly rhinoceros

Meercats

Playing meercats

Kangaroos

Baby kangaroo

Curious Ostrich

Curious Ostrich

Antelope

Missing a horn!

Birds and More Birds

There were quite a few cages full of unique and interesting looking birds, dozens of species.. unfortunately I was only able to get good shots of the macaws.

Red Macaw

Blue and Gold Macaws

Green Macaw

 

Overall it was time spent well and a fun day out at the zoo. Find out more about the Wildlife World Zoo at their official website: www.wildlifeworld.com