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Special Feedings and Free Admission

Bring your family to Cleveland Metroparks Zoo on Thanksgiving Day and enjoy free admission to the Zoo from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. As an added holiday treat, visitors can see special animal enrichment demonstrations throughout the day.

Thanksgiving 2009 Enrichment Demonstration Schedule
Note: Times and locations are subject to change.
A full schedule will be posted in the Zoo's Welcome Plaza.

  Time Animal Enrichment
The RainForest 10:30 a.m. Orangutans Foraging for food
Primate, Cat
& Aquatics
11 a.m. Allen's Swamp Monkeys Swimming for grapes
11 a.m. Hamadryas Baboons Foraging for cranberry sauce
11:30 a.m. Sharks Feeding
Rhino Barn 12:30 p.m. Rhinos Making "squash" out of pumpkins
Northern
Trek
1:30 p.m. Tigers Having a banquet of "bone-sicles"
2:30 p.m. Sloth Bears Foraging for their feast
3:30 p.m. Seals & Sea Lions Training for treats