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Support the critical care, community, and conservation work that takes place at your free zoo every day.

August 10 is World Lion Day, and Lincoln Park Zoo is thrilled to show its love for lions. Whether it’s partnering with the KopeLion in northern Tanzania or providing top-notch care to the African lion prides at Pepper Family Wildlife Center, Lincoln Park Zoo is committed to doing its part to ensure the survival of lions around the world. Help these big cats celebrate this special day with a hearty helping of meaty bones and other delicious snacks!

August 26 is Painted Dog Day. In their native range in sub-Saharan Africa, African painted dogs live and hunt in packs of up to 30 members that allow them to capture much larger animals. The painted dogs who reside at Lincoln Park Zoo satisfy their carnivorous cravings with a steady supply of rabbits—a favorite prey item—for meals and enrichment. Supply the pack with a hearty helping of hares today!

On August 3, Japanese macaque Minato celebrated his fourth birthday. This youngster loves to spend his days learning from and playing with his family at Regenstein Macaque Forest. Help the family celebrate Minato with a special snack: coconut shells filled with gelatin. The macaques love to forage for these treats. Then, when they’re done with the tasty gelatin inside, they’ll play with or gnaw on the shells. Show your love for Minato and purchase some gelatin today!

The horticulture team at Lincoln Park Zoo uses many different tools and techniques to keep the grounds looking beautiful—including bugs. Beneficial insects are used in interior habitats like the ones at Regenstein African Journey as a sustainable solution to combat pests. Help supply the horticulture team with some beneficial bugs.

Gibbons live in small family groups. At Lincoln Park Zoo, Murray and JC spend time swinging through their habitat and feeding on fruits and seeds. Brighten the apes’ days by supplementing their diet with tasty sunflower seeds to nibble on!

Canada lynx are mid-sized cats found primarily in the coniferous forests of Alaska and Canada. In the wild, these predators use their large paws to keep from sinking into the snow while they hunt their prey of choice, snowshoe hares. Here at Lincoln Park Zoo, the resident lynx sisters enjoy a diet that includes large mice, chicks, and rib bones. Give Buttercup and Thistle the perfect summer picnic with a helping of bones and other meaty delights.

Did you know? The zoo has a collection with more than 80 cultivars of perennial herbaceous hibiscus. These beautiful blooms support native pollinators like butterflies and can be seen on zoo grounds from mid-July through September. Keep these beauties blooming year after year by purchasing some new hibiscus plants!

From the long-legged black-necked stilts to the plump tawny frogmouths, the birds in McCormick Bird House enjoy catching their reflections in mirrors throughout their habitats. Ensure the birds will always look their best with bright and shiny mirrors!

At Farm-in-the-Zoo, grazing animals—like cows and ponies—are fed from feeders specially designed to foster natural grazing positions. Feeders shaped like balls can be stuffed with hay, then get pushed around by animals as they release the delicious and nutritious food through play. Make mealtime fun with a new ball feeder!

The Jamaican iguana trio at Regenstein Small Mammal-Reptile House enjoys a smorgasbord of fresh produce, leafy greens, and insects in their diet. To ensure the reptiles get balanced nutrition, keepers dust insects with a superfine calcium powder, then let the iguanas hunt for them throughout their habitat. Help keep the iguanas healthy and strong by providing them some calcium powder.

Chimpanzees are highly intelligent primates renowned for tool use. The troops 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. Help keep the feeders stocked with sticky, savory peanut butter!

The red kangaroos at the zoo feast on fresh greens as part of their daily diets. Keepers provide a mix of romaine, collards, kale, and spinach to keep the troop healthy and fit! Put some spring in the kangaroos’ steps with some leafy greens.

Did you know? Chilean flamingos are not born with the bright pink plumage for which they are known. Upon birth, chicks have gray feathers and sometimes don’t gain adult coloration for up to three years. Through consuming krill—small shrimp-like crustaceans that contain beta-carotene—flamingos develop that signature pink. Delight our flamingos with a healthy serving of krill!

Axolotls, a species of salamander, will eat anything from fish to arthropods. Lincoln Park Zoo enhances the resident axolotl’s diet with nutritious abystoma pellets—spongy pellets made of fish meal and other seafood. Supply an axolotl with a superior salamander snack today!

To create an exciting challenge for the Asian small-clawed otters at Regenstein Small Mammal-Reptile House, keepers put fish and squid inside grape vine balls, challenging the otters to “fish” out their meal with dexterous paws. Make mealtime an enriching experience with the purchase of squid!

The resident meerkats at Regenstein African Journey enjoy hard-boiled eggs as part of their specialized diet to supply essential vitamins and oils. Share this eggs-traordinary snack with the meerkat mob today!

What do polar bears and seals have in common? They both love to scratch, pull, and tear long ribbons of fibrous kelp! While some ingesting may occur, kelp primarily serves to satisfy the curiosity of these Arctic mammals, who love to dig and rip this bumpy seaweed. “Kelp out” the seals and polar bears by chipping in for some fresh kelp!