The 1,800 acres that make up this addendum to the San Diego Zoo is home to animals from 300 species and six continents. This is the granddaddy of all safari parks if not the original wild animal venue, it’s certainly the best known. There’s a picnic area for groups, and a hands-on area for kids to feed goats, chickens, and other farmyard critters.
The Park’s residents include bison, elk, deer, wolves, pelicans, black bears, cranes, and eagles. Part of Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium and Wild Animal Park, this facility takes an educational approach to the conservation of North American animals. Simmons Conservation Park and Wildlife Safari Reptiles, tigers, birds, giraffes, llamas – they’re all here, and a picnic area too. In addition to the 3-mile driving tour, guests can walk around Safari Village and interact with animals in the petting zoo.
The only drive-thru wild animal park in Virginia, this facility has over 1,000 animals on its 180-acre spread. Located At: 3505 Camp Verde Bridgeport Highway (SR-260) For the more adventurous group, there’s also a 2.5 hour zipline tour. The 40-minute bus ride gives you an up-close view of zebras, antelopes, and other African animals. There’s even the chance to (safely) feed a tiger. If the kids want to see a tiger swim or an armadillo named Tucker strut his stuff, this is the place to go. And there’s also a stroll-friendly section, where kids can hand-feed some of the park’s smaller, tamer residents.Īpproximately midway between Flagstaff and Phoenix, the Out of Africa Wildlife Park offers a mix of entertaining and informative shows, a bush safari, and a wildlife preserve. You can rent a bus or van for the 3.5 mile tour, or you can use your own vehicle. In fact, this 250-acre expanse contains more than 120 species of animals, including parrots, peacocks, lemurs, lizards, wolves, and wallabies. The harsh brutality of the animal kingdom played out on the African savannah.One of two sister safari parks, the Pine Mountain Wild Animal Safari Park is home to a variety of animals, from American bison to African giraffes. The kill is what many tourists come to see. Each car carries a group of tourists, cameras in hand, filming the cheetahs' jaws on the wildebeest's neck and recording the animal's last mournful cries. When the four cats finally spring on their hapless prey and bring one young wildebeest to the ground, about half the cars pull up around them to watch. No fewer than 27 other vehicles are encircling the herd of zebra and wildebeest waiting for the show. Ours isn't the only four-wheel drive racing across the dry grass to witness the imminent kill. These male cheetahs are known to work together with deadly efficiency - although, with so many wildebeest in the vicinity, it is hard to imagine breakfast will present much of a challenge. Our tour guide driving a four-wheel drive speeds off across the plains after being told the famous "four brothers" are on the prowl. An early morning in Kenya's Maasai Mara game reserve - with a wildebeest quietly grazing, birds crowding on the branches of a lone acacia tree and some zebras meandering nearby - is suddenly interrupted by an incoming radio call.
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