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12 Destinations Where You Can Get Up Close & Personal With Wildlife
Ever thought about feeding a cougar? Cuddling a koala? Taking a safari to see gazelles and rhinos? Staying with farm animals? Interacting with camels, wolves, lemurs, and monkeys? Kissing a giraffe? Visiting a tiger palace? Well, people have the chance to do all of that and more at the fantastic destinations found on this list.
These sanctuaries, parks, zoos, preserves, and centers work to protect animals while educating people on these creatures. While doing so, they open their doors to the public, allowing for tours, feedings, photo ops, and other chances to get up close and personal with wildlife!
Updated by Gabriel Kirellos, December 5th, 2021: There are several places in the US where people can get up close and personal with the diverse wildlife in the country. This list was updated to include more places where people can meet animals, touch them, feed them, wash them, and more. These include the Wonders of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium in Missouri, Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, and Indiana's Wilstem Ranch.
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12 Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Florida
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Big Cat Rescue has over 80 big cats like cougars, lions, tigers, ocelots, jaguars, leopards, and bobcats, rescued after being hurt, abandoned or forced to retire as a performer. BCR also works to educate the public through education and legislation on ways to end these creatures' private possession and trade.
Launching in 1992, this place offers a variety of tours, where guests can see these felines up close.
People can visit during the day, at night, with groups, alone, to help feed the animals or events like weddings and field trips.
11 Palm Beach Zoo in Palm Beach, Florida
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Palm Beach Zoo grew from a small red barn to a major attraction with over 550 animals and 190 species. Here, guests can enjoy everything from bears, capuchin monkeys, coatis, Komodo dragons to llamas, ocelots, otters, peacocks, and toucans.
There are also unique experiences with koalas, tortoises, sloths, flamingos, capybaras, and anteaters, allowing people to get even closer to these creatures. Furthermore, the Palm Beach Zoo has a Conservation Society that helps with projects worldwide and offers educational programs to spread even more knowledge about wildlife and their work.
10 Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose, Texas
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Fossil Rim Wildlife Center fights on behalf of endangered animals, and this place utilizes research, training, management, and education to protect indigenous and exotic endangered and threatened species.
People can stay on-site in a lodge or cabins, can attend camps or workshops, can check out the Children's Animal Center, can go to events such as the Father's Day Sunset Safari Dinner & Tour, can have their birthday parties or weddings here and can enjoy a variety of tours. Yes, there are many ways that guests can see animals like gazelle, tortoise, bison, jackrabbit, wolf, goat, rhinoceros, or tortoise!
9 Woodstock Farm Sanctuary in High Falls, New York
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Woodstock Farm Sanctuary rescues farm animals and is all about animal rights for creatures such as chickens, cows, ducks, pigs, rabbits, sheep, and turkeys. This sanctuary offers memberships, volunteer spots, corporate sponsorships, jobs, internships, and tours.
For tours, people get to enter into pastures and yards; while everyone is surrounded by the animals, the Woodstock Farm Sanctuary team tells the creatures' stories of where they came and how they ended up where they are now. Oh, and guests can stay on-site at The Gray Barn, a brand-new place with overnight accommodations that comes with a private tour and a vegan breakfast!
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8 B Bryan Preserve in Point Arena, California
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B Bryan Preserve exists to breed and conserve African Hoof Stock, such as antelopes, zebras, and giraffes. This preserve was started by wildlife enthusiasts, and the entire team works to grow an overall interest in conservation and build awareness around current problems regarding wildlife.
Guests can take a tour or stay here for an entire weekend to get up-close and personal with these animals and learn about conservation efforts. Tours are handled in a vintage open-air land rover that frequently stops for photo ops and for a chance to feed or even kiss giraffe!
7 North Georgia Zoo & Farm in Cleveland, Georgia
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The North Georgia Zoo & Farm, home to Wildlife Wonders and Paradise Valley, teaches people about and connects people to animals.
There are so many here: insects, birds, small exotics (like hedgehogs and chinchillas), large exotics (like yak), deer, kangaroos, canines, cats, primates, reptiles & amphibians, native mammals (like flying squirrels and woodchucks), and farm & petting zoo animals (like miniature horses, llamas, fainting goats, and teacup pigs)!
These can be seen through choices like an Animal Experience (a long time with a more exotic animal), an Animal Encounter (better for kids), and/or The Ultimate Experience Encounter (with 2 to 3 animals).
6 The Vince Shute Wildlife Sanctuary in Orr, Minnesota
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Due to Vince Shute's peaceful approach towards black bears, The Vince Shute Wildlife Sanctuary exists out in the woods of Minnesota.
His final wish was to live in peace with these creatures, and The American Bear Association helps keep this sanctuary running. When visited, people learn about and get a chance to see these bears.
These animals roam free in an area mainly consisting of meadow and surrounding woods, and people can observe them from a viewing deck, which allows for some fantastic sights and even more fabulous photo ops!
5 The Endangered Wolf Center in Eureka, Missouri
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The Endangered Wolf Center helps keep wolves around and back into the wild. This center has endangered species like red wolves and fennec foxes, and adaptable wolves (a symbolic adoption, of course, which assists in this cause of helping these species survive).
Through parties, camps, field trips, campouts, and tours, people can interact with these animals. Some examples are PredaTours (an educational session and 45 minutes in the animal habitats), the Endangered Species Photography Tour (to get some great pictures), or the Animal Trainer Experience (to learn how the wolves are trained).
4 The Institute for Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (T.I.G.E.R.S.) in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
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The Institute for Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (T.I.G.E.R.S.) is a world-renowned wildlife preserve with some elegant options. With the Wild Encounters Tour, guests have three hours to meet Hercules the Tiger, Bubbles the African elephant, and Ramses the cheetah.
There is also a Night Safari Tour through a tropical garden and a tiger palace full of extraordinary creatures. At the Preservation Station Overview, visitors can view tigers and baby gibbons for free. People can even travel to Africa with this team to see more wildlife!
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3 Wonders Of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium - Springfield, Missouri
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Visitors to Wonders of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium enjoy experiencing the Out to Sea Shark Dive, which allows them to go into a metal cage under the water and witness sharks in front of them. Divers will have the chance to see various shark types, including brown sharks and tiger sharks.
What's unique about this attraction is that people who wish to experience it do not need to be certified divers. Moreover, they can get state-of-the-art helmets from the Wonders of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium that allow them to submerge conveniently under the water.
2 Colorado Wolf And Wildlife Center - Divide, Colorado
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At Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, people can touch and caress wolves rescued from households that can no longer care for them. Visitors to the center in Divine, Colorado, can follow the wolves into their enclosures, feed them and pet them while having photographers take snapshots of the unforgettable moments.
1 Wilstem Ranch - Paoli, Indiana
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Visitors to Wilstem Ranch in Paoli, Indiana, can spend time with the elephants and their trainers, engaging in several activities. Those include touching, washing, feeding the elephants. Moreover, people can paint the elephant's toenails and prepare their food. Wilstem Ranch houses other animals, such as kangaroos, grizzly bears, and giraffes, with which people can also interact.
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Feed Baby Tigers, Elephants, and Pandas on These Voluntourism Trips
Like animals and want to do some good on your next vacation? Consider volunteering for an extended time period with an animal welfare organization.
If time is short, visiting an animal sanctuary for an afternoon is still a worthwhile venture. Either way here are nine options for helping furry (and non-furry friends).
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Length: Afternoon
Just 15 minutes from the bear rescue facility is Wildlife SOS's elephant sanctuary, where visitors can feed fruit to the eight resident elephants. If you're lucky, you might also see them playing in the pool.
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Length: Two weeks
GoEco has more than 50 wildlife volunteer programs, including Chimpanzee Wildlife and Orphan Care in Zambia, Africa. Participants get to handle the recently rescued chimps, with the rest of the time spent farming, helping to improve the facility, and observing chimpanzee behavior.
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Length: Afternoon
The Agra Bear Rescue Facility in Agra, India doesn't allow visitors to interact with the bears, but there's a good reason: Many of them are rescued dancing bears that spent years roped up in captivity. Now that they're free, they're a bit more wild. But you can still get pretty close.
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Length: Two week minimum
GoEco's Tiger, Lion, and Wildlife Park program is one of its most popular, and for good reason: volunteers get to actually interact with the tigers and lions, including feeding cubs. Expect some dirty work too (like cleaning up animal poop), but if that worries you, refer back to feeding adorable tiny tigers.
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Length: One week minimum
Out of the many wildlife and marine programs offered by GoVoluntouring, the Sea Turtle Conservation Project in Costa Rica is one of the company's most popular. If you go during peak nesting time, you'll get to handle hundreds of baby turtles.
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Length: Two weeks minimum
GVI hosts a number of programs that are also offered by other companies, such as volunteering with elephants, dolphins, and lions. But one of its more unusual options is working with stray dogs in Nepal. Strays are common due to a lack of animal shelters, and volunteers spend two weeks (or more) assisting with vaccinations, neutering, and community education.
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Length: Afternoon
The Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane, Australia allows visitors to actually cuddle these adorable marsupials. Free koala hugs (with the price of admission) are available all day long, as are photo opps. It may be best to get there earlier in the day: Even though the koalas are used to human interaction, each one has a strict half hour per day cuddling limit. The sanctuary also has kangaroos and wallabies you can feed.
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Length: Two days, August 15–17, 2014
The Westin Beach Resort & Spa in Fort Lauderdale, Florida recently partnered with the Nova Southeastern University’s Oceanographic Center & Guy Harvey Research Institute as part of a marine conservation effort.
Hotel guests who choose the shark tagging package get a two-night stay at the resort while spending the weekend helping marine researchers. Volunteer duties include prepping fishing equipment, baiting hooks, and of course, tagging sharks, which range from the smaller nurse to the (much) larger hammerhead.
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Length: One week
Earthwatch Institute runs 22 wildlife and ecosystem programs, including one with giant pandas in China's Sichuan province. The faciilty has more than 80 pandas, and works to slowly release them back into the wild. Volunteers document daily behavior, sort panda videos, and help with mealtimes. (Pandas eat lots and lots of bamboo.)
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Here you can pet adult tigers, play with babies and even give them milk to drink.
Breeding tigers in captivity is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, such "pupils" will not be able to live a day in natural conditions. On the other hand, according to the organizers of the "Tiger's Kingdom" nursery, it is better to be doomed to life side by side with a person than not to be born at all.
Tiger’s Kingdom is a great place where you can not only see how an animal changes under the conditions of human upbringing, but also feed baby tiger cubs with milk, stroking them like kittens.
Where can I do this?
#16Tiger Kingdom Zoo
A small zoo dedicated exclusively to tigers. Here you have the opportunity to get to know these graceful cats better.
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Opening hours: daily from 9:00 to 18:00 (restaurant - from 11:00 to 15:00)
Phone: +66-95-075-0163
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there is no such item as “feed the tiger cub with milk” in the official price list of services, but this does not stop you :) The rest of the services are fixed, their cost depends on what age of tigers you want to see:
1. 2-4 months - 1000 baht;
2. 5-10 months - 900 baht;
3. 11-15 months - 800 baht;
4. 16-36 months - 800 baht.
The price is for 10-15 minutes of being in the enclosure; you can stay on the territory of the nursery without restrictions. There are also discounts for visiting several enclosures at once. An experienced trainer will be with you in the enclosure, but you still should not forget about safety. By the way, zoo employees may not allow children to get into the aviary with adult animals - only with tiger cubs.
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The idea to write about tigers in Pattaya came to me after a question from our reader and tourist Yulia. “Which excursion in Pattaya should you sign up for if you want to feed the tigers and take pictures with them?” she asked. Tigers are not found in Pattaya, but there are several places nearby, and we all visited them: I, to be honest, am also partial to big striped cats.
And where are the tigers in Pattaya?
You can communicate with tigers and cubs in the following places near Pattaya: Sukhumvit Tiger Park, Nong Nooch Tropical Garden, Khao Kaew Open Zoo and Tiger Zoo in the city with the dissonant name of Sriracha. We will tell you how much it costs and how to get to all the listed places.
Where can I take pictures with tigers?
Tigers in Pattaya start at… Nong Nuche. In Nong Nooch you can take a picture with a tiger in 100 baht . This is a real tiger, not stuffed with tranquilizers, which picturesquely sits next to orchids. You sit behind him on the same stone, and put your hand on the back of the tiger. You can lightly stroke, but you need to press hard, otherwise the tiger will think that it is besieged by a fly.
This is, of course, a very superficial "acquaintance" with tigers in Pattaya, but even it will bring you a certain dose of adrenaline.
My very first tiger… Nong Nooch, Pattaya, 2014.
You can also take great photos with tigers at the tiger zoo in Sriracha (or Siracha), which is 40 km from Pattaya. More precisely, not with tigers, but with cubs. You can even pick up these mischievous babies!
This photo costs 200 baht for two . You sit down on a bench, they cover your knees with a towel and give you a tiger cub in your hands. At this moment, the Thai photographer is trying with might and main to make you look more or less decent, because the tiger cubs are not trained and dance something on your lap. During this photo shoot, the tiger sitting at Zhenya's was screaming and crying so much that we generally regretted getting involved in this.
Then the photo is printed out for you in a cardboard frame. For some reason, they refuse to upload it to a USB flash drive, so ask someone to take a picture with your camera, so as not to rely on only one copy of such a wonderful frame. This is probably the closest "communication" with the striped ones that is possible if you are interested in tigers in Pattaya.
This is the only well-received photo with baby tiger cubs in her arms. Well, they are restless!
Where can I feed tigers in Pattaya?
In Khao Keo Zoo (50 km from Pattaya) you can feed a real white tiger with chicken meat from a skewers. The skewer costs 20 baht . However, this can only be done when visiting the zoo on your own or when ordering a taxi; there is no arrival at the tigers on excursions to Khao Keo from Pattaya. On the tour there is, however, the opportunity to feed the lions in exactly the same way.
I was very impressed with the feeding of tigers. Here he is, right ten centimeters from me, baring his huge scary teeth! It's good that there is a lattice between us 🙂
Eat, dear, yum-yum!
Well, do not forget that tigers in Pattaya are, first of all, tigers in the tiger zoo Si Rachi . There you can bottle feed the tabby baby! In my opinion, it is unforgivable to miss such an opportunity. It costs 50 baht for a bottle, and there is enough milk in it to let two or three cubs suck on it. Nearby are cages with three-month-old babies, and they are ready to eat milk, be healthy!
Tiger cubs like milk very much; when I fed one of them, the other two in the neighborhood yelled with might and main to share with them too. I'm on my way now, my dears! The last tiger cub handled the nipple on the bottle so greedily that he even tore it off. All right, fed.
This tiger cub is 3 months old, he lives separately from his mother and eats whatever the tourist feeds him. Tiger Zoo in Si Racha.
In fact, it is not very convenient to feed a tiger cub and take pictures with it at the same time. And how has he not scratched his hand yet!
Where can I watch the tiger show?
Tigers in Pattaya also participate in the show. For example, Khao Keo Zoo hosts animal shows without human participation . There the tigers come out, walk along the pond with a glass wall. Thai show organizers force one tiger to plunge into the water, another to climb the trunk for meat. After a couple of minutes, the cats are removed.
Animal show without people at Khao Keo Zoo. The striped one reminds us that although he is big, he is from the cat family - how fast he climbs!
Wait, if you're a cat, then why are you a good swimmer?
There is also a show at the Shirachi Tiger Zoo. In fact, this is a triple show: first with the participation of tigers , then the audience moves to another hall and there they are entertained by crocodiles chewing Thai heads, then to the third hall - there elephants are bowling.
It's not the Zapashny brothers involved with the tigers, of course, but it's not bad. We like the old-fashioned trick of jumping into a burning ring the most.
Of all the brothers known to me - the Samoilovs, Salvatore, Grimm, Karamazovs and Coenovs - for some reason this photograph reminds me only of the Zapashny brothers.
My heart always stops at such sights.
How to get to the tigers and how much does it cost
To the garden of Nong Nooch , of course, you don’t need to go for the sake of one photo with a tiger - only if you plan to visit this place at all. The entrance ticket costs 500 baht per person. Here is a detailed article about Nong Nooch and a description of how to get there:
- Nong Nooch Garden: expected a little more
You can go to the Khao Keo Zoo with a group on an excursion from Pattaya, you can take a taxi individually. You can't get there by public transport.
Si Racha Tiger Zoo can also be reached by guided tour or taxi (public transport is only part of the way). But it is most convenient to visit there as part of the Discovery tour : you will have time to watch all three shows, and take pictures and feed all the cubs. Tigers are the highlight of this zoo, but in all other respects it is much inferior to Khao Keo.
Sriracha Tiger Zoo on the map of ThailandUpdate! Quite recently a beautiful Tiger Park appeared in Pattaya itself. There are different types of tigers, from small ones to serious adults. You can stroke the tigers, play (only small ones), take pictures with them. You can get there by public transport: first to Sukhumvit Street, and then along it to the south, towards Nong Nooch and the floating market.
Tiger Park on the map of Pattaya In the Tiger Park, the cost of "communication" with a tiger in an enclosure for 10-15 minutes is 800-1000 baht per person, depending on the size of the tiger.
