NOVEMBER EVENTS ZOOTOTS | NOVEMBER 12 | 9:30AM Due to the Holidays, ZooTots will be held on the second saturday in November and December.
Enhance your toddler's (5 and under) zoo experience with a 1 hour learning extravaganza. Your toddler will participate in hands on animal encounters or feedings, stories and activities. These programs are designed to be safe and will teach about shapes, sounds, numbers, alphabet, color and more.
ZooTots Program Fee: $3 per person, plus zoo admission. Zoo admission is good all day. Each additional child or adult is $3.
ZOOLIGHTS | NOVEMBER 25, 26 & 27 Enjoy the beauty of the zoo at night as you admire thousands of sparkling holiday lights! More>>>
DECEMBER EVENTS ZOOTOTS | DECEMBER 10| 9:30AM Due to the Holidays, ZooTots will be held on the second saturday in December.
Enhance your toddler's (5 and under) zoo experience with a 1 hour learning extravaganza. Your toddler will participate in hands on animal encounters or feedings, stories and activities. These programs are designed to be safe and will teach about shapes, sounds, numbers, alphabet, color and more.
ZooTots Program Fee: $3 per person, plus zoo admission. Zoo admission is good all day. Each additional child or adult is $3.
ZOOLIGHTS | DECEMBER 2ND-4TH; 9TH-11; 16TH-24TH & 26TH Enjoy the beauty of the zoo at night as you admire thousands of sparkling holiday lights! More>>>
ZOO NEWS
BOO AT THE ZOO
OCTOBER 21, 22, 28, 29 & 30 Boo at the Zoo was tons of spooky fun! Be sure to check the wonderful sponsors who helped make the event such a success! More>>>
NEW AFRICAN WHITE RHINO EXHIBIT NOW OPEN! | SEPT. 17 Join Gulf Breeze Zoo as it celebrates National Rhino Day by welcoming 2 new African white rhinos! Stop by and check out the transport crates used to bring these two lovely cows (female rhinos are called cows) all the way from South Africa to our zoo. There will be crafts and games and a special stop on the train ride for great photo ops. Zoo keepers will be on hand all day to answer questions about the magnificent animals.
The two young female rhinos are currently referred to by their ear notch numbers, "31" and "84". Visit Gulf Breeze Zoo on facebook to vote for their new names.
Be sure to read the related news articles located under IN THE MEDIA section below.
SQUIRREL MONKEY EXHIBIT NOW OPEN! | JULY 20 Gulf Breeze Zoo is proud to announce the opening of its 2nd new exhibit this summer!
South American squirrel monkeys (28 of
them to be exact) have swung in and made them selves at home in their spacious new habitat. Squirrel Monkeys are small primates that live gregariously in the middle layer of the rain forest. Their small size and golden color helped to earn them the name Squirrel Monkey (their goofy antics probably played
a part in it as well).
This exhibit is the first of three that will utilize the section of property once occupied by the Japanese Gardens. A new clouded leopard habitat as well as a VERY large walk through free flight aviary are in the works to finish up the area next year.
COME SEE WHAT'S NEW! KING VULTURE & TRAIN
Come visit Victoria the King Vulture during a live Animal Interaction! Gulf Breeze Zoo has a new train!
Brighter, quieter and ready to go!
AUSTRALIAN BUDGIERY Visit the brand new free flight aviary filled with
300+ brilliantly colored Australian budgies.
Be amazed as the parakeet sized beauties
fly all around. Purchase a "Budgie stick treat" and enjoy these wild birds up close as they land on and around you to enjoy their treat.
BEHIND THE SCENES ANIMAL TOURS Have you ever wanted to pet the most dangerous animal in Africa? How about feed a dinosaur? Or maybe a lap full of bunnies is more your style.
Join us for an exciting behind the scenes adventure and make your wildest dreams come true! More>>>
SEASON PASSES & RECIPROCAL ZOO MEMBERSHIPS Gulf Breeze Zoo now offers a reciprocal zoo membership program with Virginia Safari Park [Natural Bridge, VA] and Reston Zoo [Vienna, VA]. More>>>
Navarre Beach Sandsculpting Festival | Sept 23-25 Master sand sculptors create a sand exhibit welcoming guests to Navarre Beach, and highlighting area attractions.
Gulf Breeze Zoo debuts two white rhinos Watch the video and read the article by
Cory Pippin, posted on Fox10TV.com on September 19, 2011.
Gulf Breeze Zoo debuts two white rhinos Read the article by Josh Cooper and see photos by John Blackie, posted on PNJ.com on September 18, 2011.
Rhinos charge Gulf Breeze Zoo Read the article by Joanna Hammond, posted on NavarrePress.com on September 8, 2011.
The newest members of the Gulf Breeze Zoo, a pair of South African white rhinos dubbed 31 and 87, relax and stretch their legs in their new home.
Locals, tourists bring zoo roaring back to life Read the article by Richard McVay and view the photos by John Blackie, posted on PNJ.com on August 30, 2011.
Jim Carmack "Talks to the animals" Read the article by Jim Carmack and watch the video, posted on WEARTV.com on August 17, 2011.
GULF BREEZE ZOO: Monkeying Around Read the article by Joanna Hammond, published in Navarre Press on
July 27, 2011.
GULF BREEZE ZOO WELCOMES NEW MONKEY BUSINESS Read the article by Rebecca Ross and
see photos by Bruce Graner, published in Pensacola News Journal on July 25, 2011.
Erin Cantwell, Curator, tries hand feeding watermelon to one of the juvenile squirrel monkeys.
Gulf Breeze Zoo OPENS NEW SQUIRREL MONKEY EXHIBIT Read the article and watch the video posted on WEARTV.com on
July 21, 2011.
Gulf Breeze Zoo offers something new:
King Vulture and COATIMUNDI Read the article posted on Fox10TV.com on July 6, 2011.
Life flourishes at Gulf Breeze Zoo Read the article by Liesel Schmidt, published in the Pensacola News Journal on May 25, 2011.
COATIMUNDI CELEBRATION AT
GULF BREEZE ZOO View the photos by Katie King of the Pensacola News Journal, taken on
May 14, 2011.
Dora takes a bath in preparation for
her birthday celebration!
WALK ON THE WILD SIDE: ANIMAL SUMMER, WITH A TWIST Read the article by Phillip Makselan, published in Bella Magazine on
May 12, 2011.
QUITE A CHANGE: VISITORS ENJOY NEW AND IMPROVED
GULF BREEZE ZOO Read the article by Angel McCurdy, published in the Northwest Florida Daily News on April 15, 2011.
BOO AT THE ZOO
South American squirrel monkeys (28 of 
Navarre Beach Sandsculpting Festival | Sept 23-25
COATIMUNDI CELEBRATION AT