Support Zoo Knoxville by adopting an animal and help provide a year of care for your favorite zoo resident ! Your contribution underwrites the best in nutrition, veterinary care, and a safe and enriching environment that keeps your adoptee healthy and happy. Whether adopting for yourself or an animal lover in your life, you’ll be assisting Zoo Knoxville’s mission to inspire action for wild life.
Adoption Packages
PAL (DIGITAL PACKAGE)
- A personalized digital certificate of adoption with information about your adopted animal
- A digital photo of your adopted species
- Recognition in Zoo Knoxville’s Wild Wonders magazine for you or your designated recipient
ADVOCATE
- A personalized certificate of adoption with information about your adopted animal
- A printed 5×7 photo of your adopted species
- Recognition in Zoo Knoxville’s Wild Wonders magazine for you or your designated recipient
CONSERVATIONIST
- A personalized certificate of adoption with information about your adopted animal
- A printed 8×10 photo of your adopted species
- Recognition in Zoo Knoxville’s Wild Wonders magazine for you or your designated recipient
- This adoption package arrives in a special box that includes a plush of your adopted species with a gift tag (if requested)
BRONZE ADOPTION
Keeper chats are temporarily unavailable. A certificate will be given in its place and honored at a future date as restrictions are reduced.
- A personalized certificate of adoption with information about your adopted animal
- A printed 8×10 photo of your adopted species
- Recognition in Zoo Knoxville’s Wild Wonders magazine for you or your designated recipient
- This adoption package arrives in a special box that includes a plush of your adopted species with a gift tag (if requested)
- Invitation for a private keeper chat (15 minutes) with one of your animal’s care givers (to be scheduled at a mutually beneficial time)
- Join Zoo Knoxville’s Circle of Friends program at the Keeper level and become more connected with the zoo’s mission of conservation
- Circle of Friends members receive unlimited zoo admission and free parking throughout the year
- Invitation for yearly Circle of Friends events
- 2 general admission zoo guest passes
- 10 complimentary carousel passes
PLATINUM ADOPTION
Behind the scenes tours are temporarily unavailable. A certificate will be given in its place and honored at a future date as restrictions are reduced.
- A personalized certificate of adoption with information about your adopted animal
- A printed 8×10 photo of your adopted species
- Recognition in Zoo Knoxville’s Wild Wonders magazine for you or your designated recipient
- This adoption package arrives in a special box that includes a plush of your adopted species with a gift tag (if requested)
- Schedule a private behind the scenes tour of your adopted animal’s area (subject to keeper availability and safety regulations)
- Join Zoo Knoxville’s Circle of Friends program at the Curator level and become more connected with the zoo’s mission of conservation
- Circle of Friends members receive unlimited zoo admission and free parking throughout the year
- Invitation for yearly Circle of Friends events
- 4 general admission zoo guest passes
- 20 complimentary carousel passes
For more information or to adopt an animal today, contact us at adopt@zooknoxville.org.