Interact with Animals
Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo offers a hands-on and educational
experience with our interactive exhibits and habitats.
Safari Africa Interactive Experiences


Giraffe-Feeding

Stand on the feeding plateau of Safari Africa and get eye-to-eye with the tallest animals in the world. You can also feed the giraffe special crackers, on sale at the feeding station.




White Rhino Feeding

Touch and feed these giant creatures – one of the only zoos in the country where visitors can get this close to rhinoceros. Available Friday – Sunday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.



Camel Safari

Take a ride on the back of a Dromedary camel. Located in the heart of Safari Africa, adults and children alike will enjoy this experience. This ride also offers unique views of Rhino Reserve as well as the cheetah exhibit.






Discovery Center

Whether it crawls, creeps, slithers or swims you can find many of the world's smaller animals in The Harrell Discovery Center. With aquariums full of jewel-colored frogs, lizards, and snakes-you can learn about our four, two and no-legged friends!

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Wallaroo Petting Zoo

Wallaroo Station offers many hands on exhibits. You can feed and pet the goats in the Goat Yard, feed a bright orange Koi or take ride on a pony or llama.







Bushland Budgies

New to Wallaroo Station is Bushland Budgies, a unique interactive free-flight aviary allowing Zoo guests the opportunity to feed hundreds of small Australian parrots known as "Budgies."






Lorikeet Landing

Full of brightly colored birds, Lorikeet Landing offers a thrilling experience for Zoo-goers. These birds will land on you and if you purchase nectar, they will eat out of a small cup as you hold it.





Stingray Bay

Don't be afraid, be delighted as these slippery stingrays brush under your fingertips. Smooth and silky to the touch, the sting rays will come over to the side of their pool so you can touch and feed them. Watch out-- you might get splashed!