Shows & Keeper Talks
All shows and presentations are weather permitting.
EARTH Ltd’s Live Animal Presentations
Live Animal Presentations at the EARTH Discovery Center
Location: EARTH Discovery Center stage
Stop by the EARTH Discovery Center to watch one of our live presentations and meet a few of our animal ambassadors! Shows at EARTH focus on educating others about environmental issues including animal ecology, adaptations, endangered species, and more.
Did you know you can also go inside the EARTH Discovery Center? Be sure to step inside after the show and see a few more of our education animals up close and ask our education coordinators your animal related questions!
Schedule
2:30pm – Animal Presentation or Training Session (Daily)
Bird Presentations
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Bird Presentations at the Bird Show Arena
Location: Bird Show Arena
Learn more about some of our beautiful and intelligent birds during these informative shows presented by our bird trainers and EARTH Limited! We offer three different bird presentations: Avian Adventures, Bird Brains, and Wild Wings. Audiences will see a variety of birds and learn about topics including natural behaviors, how our avian team trains our birds, and parrot conservation efforts. Some lucky visitors may even get to participate in a training session!
You may want a bring a dollar or two! Our sun conures, Polly and Piper, will be flying during some shows to retrieve them from you! Half of the donations they collect will be given to The Bird Endowment to build nest boxes for wild Blue-throated Macaws (a critically endangered species), and half will be used to purchase toys and enrichment supplies to help keep our birds happy and healthy!
Schedule
Ask the Zoo Crew Stage
Location: Zoo Crew Stage (in front of Patagonian Cavy habitat)Stop by the Ask the Zoo Crew Stage, located just before the Patagonian Cavy habitat, to learn from our animal care staff, interns, and docents! A member of our zoo crew will be available at this location with an animal or educational artifact to educate and answer visitor questions.
Schedule
The Zoo Crew schedule will be posted daily at the entrance and at the Zoo Crew Stage.
Sloth Keeper Talks
Location:
1:30pm Sloth Talk: The upper sloth habitat (next to chimpanzee habitat and across from the EARTH Discovery Center)
Watch a sloth eat its lunch and ask our keepers your sloth questions! Sloth keeper talks provide visitors with the opportunity to learn more about sloth behavior and conservation directly from our keepers.
*Visitors cannot touch or feed sloths during keeper talks.
Schedule
Daily at 1:30 pm – Upper Sloth Habitat
Coati Keeper Talks
Location: The coati habitat
Learn more about our coatis, Coco and Chanel, and watch our keepers feed them!
Schedule
Daily at 4:00 pm