Adopt an Animal

Foster any animal and you’ll help Cheyenne Mountain Zoo continue to provide outstanding care. Whether given as a gift or used to celebrate a favorite species, symbolic adoptions come with a variety of benefits only adoptive parents can enjoy.

Ways to adopt your favorites:

Digital Adoption – ($35) choose any Zoo animal from the full list provided below.
Group Adoption – ($35+) pick a herd, chatter or family for your classroom or group, offered for certain featured animals below.
Traditional Adoption – ($50+) choose any Zoo animal from the full list provided below.
Wild Adopt Gift Packages – ($65) includes a cuddly plush, offered for many featured animals below.
Gift any Adoption – ($35+) gifting any adoption is offered during check-out.

We love our adopt parents!

When you symbolically adopt an animal, or have an animal adopted in your honor, we’ll list your name at cmzoo.org/wildchild the entire year you are an Adopt an Animal parent! Adopt donations help contribute to over $2 million spent caring for our huge giraffe herd; our grizzly bears, Emmett and Digger; a pride of lions; a Mexican wolf pack and so much more!

Wild Adopt Gift Packages

While all Zoo animals are available to adopt, these plush friends to adopt offer the option of a cuddly plush. Click on any animal for details. Tell us what plush favorites you'd like to adopt?

**If you'd like to pick up your package at the Zoo, please call 719-424-7830 to place your order! Online orders will be shipped within 2-3 business days of order processing unless otherwise specified.

What Plush Favorites Would You Like to Adopt?

If the Wild Adopt package of your favorite animal isn’t available above, we want to make sure you have an opportunity to enjoy your own cuddly plush!

Ways to Adopt Any Zoo Animal

List of All Zoo Animals Available for Adoption*

MAMMALS	REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS & INVERTEBRATES	BIRDS & FISH
African Cape porcupine African elephant African lion Alaska moose American beaver Amur leopard Amur tiger Asiatic black bear Black and white Colobus monkey Black rhinoceros Black-footed ferret Bornean orangutan Canada lynx Chinchilla Degu Domestic ferret Domestic goat Domestic guinea pig Domestic rabbit Domestic rat Flying squirrel Golden lion tamarin Grizzly bear Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth Madagascar lesser tenrec Matschie’s tree kangaroo Mexican wolf Mountain lion Mountain tapir Naked mole rat Nile hippopotamus North American river otter Okapi Patagonian mara Prehensile-tailed porcupine Pygmy hedgehog Red River hog Red-necked wallaby Reticulated giraffe Ring-tailed lemur Rock hyrax Rocky Mountain goat Slender-tailed meerkat Striped skunk Sumatran orangutan Three-banded armadillo Virginia opossum Warthog Western Lowland gorilla White-cheeked gibbon	African bullfrong African pancake tortoise African spurred tortoise American alligator Andean (Honduran) milksnake Argentine red tegu Asian forest scorpion Axolotl Ball python Baja blue rock lizard Bavay’s giant gecko Black widow spider Blue death-feigning beetle Blue-tongued skink Blue Spiny Lizard Blue tree monitor Bornean (Blood) short-tailed python Bullsnake Burmese python California kingsnake Cane toad Chilean rose-haired tarantula Chuckwalla Collared lizard Crested gecko Curlyhair tarantula Dairy cow isopod Desert blonde tarantula Desert kingsnake Eastern box turtle Egyptian tortoise Emperor newt European glass lizard Fire skink Fruit chafer Giant African millipede Gila monster Gray-banded kingsnake Greenbottle blue tarantula Hermit crab Honeybee Kenyan sand boa Kingsnake Leopard gecko Madagascar hissing cockroach Mandarin trinket snake Moroccan spiny-tailed lizard Nelson’s milksnake Ornate box turtle Pearl River map turtle Prehensile-tailed skink Mandarin trinket snake Rainbow whiptail lizard Red-eared slider Red-eyed tree frog Red-footed tortoise Rosy boa Simandoa cave roach Spotted python Star tortoise Stimson’s python Tokay gecko Veiled chameleon Western hognose snake Western pond turtle White’s tree frog Woma python Wyoming toad	Abyssinian ground hornbill African penguin Australian shelduck Azure-winged magpie Bald eagle Barn owl Budgerigar (budgie / parakeet) Cape griffon vulture Cattle egret Cockatiel Domestic Chicken East African crowned crane Emu Helmeted guinea fowl Indian blue peafowl (peacock) Koi Muscovy duck Pink-backed pelican Princess parrot Rainbow trout Western screech owl Von der Decken’s hornbill

*If you wish to adopt at a level that is not shown, please contact the Membership office at 719-424-7830 or 719-424-7893

Group & School Adopt Packages

While all Zoo animals are available to adopt, these animal families to adopt offer the options of fostering a whole herd, pack or flock of animals. Click on any animal for details.

NOTE: All adoptions are valid for one year. Like all living creatures, Zoo animals may become ill, pass away or move to another zoo temporarily or permanently. If the animal leaves for any reason, your symbolic adoption can be transferred to another animal for the remainder of your adoption year.
(For all adoption packages that include a plush, a $11.95 shipping and handling fee is added to the total donation.)

Ways to adopt your favorites:

We love our adopt parents!

Wild Adopt Gift Packages

What Plush Favorites Would You Like to Adopt?

List of All Zoo Animals Available for Adoption*

MAMMALS

REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS & INVERTEBRATES

BIRDS & FISH

Group & School Adopt Packages