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Summer Hours and Events 2025

Prairie Farms Dairy Summer Zoo Weekends kick off on May 23 with extended hours.

Tickets on sale for this summer's "Romeo & Zooliet"

A wildly fun, original new play coming to the Zoo this summer!

Baby elephant Jet makes public debut at Saint Louis Zoo

Jet will now have frequent access to the public habitats in the River's Edge area of the Zoo, but there is no set schedule for when he will be outside.

Polar bears make public debut

Meet Kallik and Kallu, 2-year-old twin polar bears!

"Spring Training" at Sea Lion Show starts March 15

Flippers and whiskers reporting for Spring Training!

Saint Louis Zoo bids farewell to Kali, welcomes polar bear twins

Big changes coming to McDonnell Polar Bear Point

Shakespeare at the Zoo: Romeo & Zooliet

The Saint Louis Zoo is partnering with St. Louis Shakespeare Festival for a wildly fun, original production "Romeo & Zooliet" coming to the Zoo this summer.

Animals Aglow lantern festival returns to Saint Louis Zoo for second year this spring

Animals Aglow returns to the Saint Louis Zoo with a whole new set of dazzling lanterns on select nights from March 12 to May 11, 2025.

Valentine’s Day Adoption

It’s love at first splash! Adopt a sea lion for a heartfelt Valentine’s Day gift that makes waves. Your gift will help support the care and feeding of the Zoo’s animals for a full year.

Jet's Journey

Follow along for updates on baby Asian elephant Jet

Asian elephant calf born at the Saint Louis Zoo

It's a boy! This birth marks the first Asian elephant calf born through artificial insemination at the Saint Louis Zoo and the beginning of a fourth generation of the Zoo's elephant family

Saint Louis Zoo launches new polar bear conservation initiative

The Saint Louis Zoo WildCare Institute Center for Polar Bear Conservation will expand upon ongoing polar bear conservation efforts at the Zoo

Wild Lights presented by Commerce Bank

5 to 8:30 p.m. on select nights Nov. 29 through Dec. 29, 2024

Saint Louis Zoo creates its first Animal Ofrenda in observance of Día de los Muertos

The ofrenda honors staff pets and decades of animals who have made Saint Louis Zoo home.

Construction underway on Henry A. Jubel Foundation Destination Discovery

Updates and new, animated fly-through rendering and images released of the upcoming experience for children and families opening in 2026

Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability Series: The Buffalo Treaty

The treaty marked its 10th anniversary in September, establishing an intertribal alliance to restore bison to their lands and strengthen cultural relationships with the animals. Kick-off event hosted by UMSL is Thursday, Oct. 10, at Saint Louis Zoo.

Zoo conservation collaboration dedicated to ‘extinct in the wild’ snail celebrates historic moment

Conservationists discovered the first adult Partula tohiveana snail born in the wild since the species was declared Extinct in the Wild.