Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium

Animals

Welcome to Kids' Zone

Kids' Zone is a bright, colorful environment designed for the way children learn: through touch, exploration and movement.

Here, children can explore the Magical Movement area where they can climb and move in ways that mimic how animals move.

The kids can then spy on live animals that move in very cool ways, such as wallabies, stingrays and millipedes.

In the Contact Junction area, kids can meet live animals up-close as they discover how we care for critters at the zoo.  They may have the opportunity to groom the resident goats and sheep or pet a guinea pig.

At Animal Avenue, stop by and explore 19 species, including our lovable meerkats and ring-tailed lemurs.

*Currently the goat feeding machines are unavailable. 

Animal Avenue

  • Meerkat
  • Ring-tailed Lemur
  • Black Lemur
  • Damaraland Mole Rat
  • Antilles Pink-toed Tree Spider
  • Emerald Tree Boa
  • Green Tree Python
  • Western Bell's Hinge-back Tortoise
  • Pancake Tortoise
  • Ornate Horned Frog
  • White's Tree Frog
  • Hour Glass Tree Frog
  • Long-legged Desert Ant
  • African Emperor Scorpion
  • Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
  • African Cichlid

Contact Junction

    • Giant African Millipede
    • Guinea Pig
    • Nigerian Dwarf Goat
    • Ocellated Ray
    • Parma Wallaby
    • Poison Arrow Frog
    • Rabbit