Cobourg Zoo

The Cobourg Zoo is a small zoo located in the town of Cobourg, Ontario. While the zoo exhibits most animals native to North America, it will have common hippos, the only animal species outside of North America.

Animal Exhibits

Whitetail Walkthrough Whitetail DeerEastern Wild Turkey Prairie Ridge Plains BisonPlains PronghornMustang Black Tailed Prarie DogNorthern Burrowing Owl </li>American Badger </li>Swift Fox </li>Giant Burying Beetle</li></ul>

Willisford Farm Pot-Bellied Pig</li>Barbados Sheep</li>Sicilian Dwarf Donkey</li>Miniature Horse</li>Dwarf Zebu</li>White Pekin Duck</li>Bantam Chicken</li>Rhode Island Red Chicken </li>Miniature Nubian Goat</li>North American Barn Owl</li>Eastern Loggerhead Shrike</li></ul> Vulture Grove Cemetery <ul><li>Eastern Turkey Vulture</li><li>Eastern Crow</li><li>Common Raven </li></ul> Cat House <ul><li>North American Cougar </li><li>Bobcat</li><li>Jaguar</li><li>Canada Lynx</li></ul> Cloven Trail <ul><li>Eastern Moose</li><li>Common Great Horned Owl</li><li>Golden Eagle</li><li>Woodland Caribou </li><li>Wood Bison</li></ul> Seal Island <ul><li>Grey Seal</li><li>Harbour Seal</li><li>Pacific Walrus</li></ul> Beaver Falls <ul><li>North American River Otter</li><li>American Beaver</li></ul> Aquatics <ul><li>American Alligator</li><li>Common Hippopotamus</li></ul> Bear Canyon <ul><li>American Black Bear</li><li>Grizzly Bear</li></ul> Rides, Interactive Exhibits, Restaurants, Shows, Stores, and Play Areas <ul><li>Train Ride</li><li>IMAX Theatre </li><li>Tim Hortons </li></ul> Walkthough After the Admission booths, visitors enter a large plaza with an interactive play fountain with Fibreglass statues of flamingos to the right, and to the left is a gift shop as well as some resturaunts (like Tim Hortons and Pizza Pizza). Nearby is the first exhibit - Whitetail Walkthrough. It is a circular encosure lightly wooded for Whitetail Deer and Eastern Wild Turkey. It is themed to part of a highway, such as road signs (including one reading 'Whildewood Boulevard'). These also include Interpretives such as cars damaged in a crash explain the dangers cars and crossing wildlife pose to one another.

Following Whitetail Walkthrough, the vegetation and topography change to simulate the interior plains of Canada with an sign welcoming visitors to the town of Badger Bluffs for the next exhibit of Prairie Ridge.