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Information about zoo events in North & South America

Visitors walk at night beneath the lit ZooLights entrance banner at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, flanked by a white light sculpture of an elephant and a green one of a snake.

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ZooLights Returns Nov. 20. The Animals Get the Night Off

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Promotional artwork for Boo at the Zoo reading BOO in large orange letters wrapped in cobwebs above the words at the Zoo in white, on a purple twilight landscape with a crescent moon behind a bare tree, a Ferris wheel at the right, two carved jack-o-lanterns in the foreground, one of them wearing a witch hat, and pale silhouettes of a camel, an anteater, a monkey and a hanging primate across the scene, with the Santa Ana Parks and Recreation and Santa Ana Zoo logos at lower left.

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Boo at the Zoo Turns 35 in Santa Ana

October 6, 2026

Promotional artwork for Hoots and Howls showing the event name in tall carved lettering across a bright green moon, with two white owls perched on the first word, a skeletal dinosaur standing at the right edge, a bare tree and a hanging spider at the left, and the text OCTOBER 10-11, 17-18, 24-25, 31 and 10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. below, all set inside a dark purple border.

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Birmingham Zoo Put Halloween in Daylight

Two black howler monkeys sit side by side on a thick horizontal branch, the one on the left with solid black fur leaning forward over the branch, the one on the right with shaggy golden-tan fur resting on folded limbs, with green leaves overhead and out-of-focus foliage behind them.

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Phoenix Zoo Spent a Month on Latin America

A young child in a black costume with white gloves stands on a red carpet between two costumed characters in long gowns, one blue and white and one pink, in front of a painted storybook castle backdrop, while an adult in an orange shirt photographs them with a phone beside a Boo at the Zoo character meet and greet sign.

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Nashville Zoo Keeps the Tigers Out Until 8:30

Boo at the Zoo runs at Nashville Zoo from Thursday, October 16 through ...

Promotional banner for Howl-O-Ween reading HOWL-O-WEEN, OCTOBER 24TH & 25TH and FREE FOR KIDS, in purple and green lettering on an orange sky, with black silhouettes of a goat in a witch's hat on the left and a rooster perched on the back of a horned animal wearing a crown on the right, above a dark grassy hill.

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Kids in Costume Get In Free at Howl-O-Ween

Animal World & Snake Farm Zoo holds its Howl-O-Ween Extravaganza on Saturday, October ...

A close-up of a flowering desert plant, its stalk carrying clusters of dark red buds with long yellow anthers pushing out of them, a small dark insect on one bud, with a green desert hillside and heavy grey storm clouds out of focus behind.

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El Paso Zoo Hosts the Chihuahuan Desert Conference

The Fourth Chihuahuan Desert Conference has its schedule posted, its dates settled and ...

Two SCUBA divers in costume kneel on the gravel bottom of an aquarium exhibit, each holding up a carved jack-o'-lantern, one in a green dinosaur suit and hood and the other in a red and blue suit with a red hood, bubbles rising around them.

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Divers in Costume Carve Pumpkins to Open ODDtober

Carving a pumpkin needs a pumpkin and a serrated knife. Carving one at ...

Promotional artwork for an animated film, showing a wide-eyed boy character stitched together from patches at center, a shaggy orange monster in purple striped trousers beside him and several smaller cartoon monsters across a green field, with a castle on a rocky crag behind. Lettering reads Monster Mayhem 4D and, above, Are You Ready For Monsters?

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Monster Mayhem 4D Opens at The Maritime Aquarium

The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk has added a second film to its 4D ...

An aerial view at dusk of the Downtown Aquarium Houston complex, with a large Ferris wheel lit in bands of pink, green and blue on the left, the aquarium building marked with a large AQUARIUM sign at right, blue-roofed pavilions and palms between them, and a freeway curving past behind.

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A Largetooth Sawfish Headlines Houston’s October

Downtown Aquarium Houston has four dated events in October, and the one worth ...

A young girl in a floral top hangs by both hands from red overhead climbing bars, grinning upward, while a bearded man in sunglasses holds her from behind. A graphic panel beside them reads CLIMB LIKE A GRAPEVINE above a photograph of vines.

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A Plant Maze Opens at the Virginia Aquarium

The Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center opens Mission Botanica on Saturday, October ...

Hundreds of carved pumpkins, each with a different face, set in rows across a long grass-covered bank beside a walkway, curving away into the distance under a blue sky.

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4,200 Carved Pumpkins, and a Living Wall Set to Music

The Jack O’Lantern Extravaganza returns to the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium from October ...

A young child in a white T-shirt leans over a large open picture book on a table, an adult program leader crouched beside them, with other families reading on the floor of the room behind.

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Read Five Books, Get Into the National Aquarium Free

Read five books, get into the National Aquarium free. That has been the ...

Illustrated promotional graphic for OktoBEARfest showing a brown bear standing upright holding hop vines, with a banner reading Saturday Afternoon October 17th and a stein of beer.

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Maryland Zoo Fills October With Zoo BOO and OktoBEARfest

The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore has built its October around two tracks that ...

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Events

ZooLights Returns Nov. 20. The Animals Get the Night Off

Boo at the Zoo Turns 35 in Santa Ana

Birmingham Zoo Put Halloween in Daylight

Phoenix Zoo Spent a Month on Latin America

Nashville Zoo Keeps the Tigers Out Until 8:30

Kids in Costume Get In Free at Howl-O-Ween

El Paso Zoo Hosts the Chihuahuan Desert Conference

Divers in Costume Carve Pumpkins to Open ODDtober

Monster Mayhem 4D Opens at The Maritime Aquarium

A Largetooth Sawfish Headlines Houston’s October

A Plant Maze Opens at the Virginia Aquarium

4,200 Carved Pumpkins, and a Living Wall Set to Music

Read Five Books, Get Into the National Aquarium Free

Maryland Zoo Fills October With Zoo BOO and OktoBEARfest

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California Red-Legged Frogs Return to the Santa Monicas

Two Sets of Twins in Three Months

Asian Lantern Festival Returns to Sanford

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OdySea Turned Its Lobby Into the First Exhibit

Tulsa Zoo Completes 17-Acre Asian Elephant Complex

Palm Beach Zoo Introduces Adorable Queensland Koala Ellin

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