Choose your level and animal. If this is a gift, remember to set your shipping address to the name and address of the recipient.

Add a Wild Child!

Do you have a favorite Great Plains Zoo animal? It may lumber, slither, flap or fly, but it’s that specific animal that makes your visit to the Zoo special. Now imagine our grocery bill, with over 500 mouths to feed – it easily exceeds $95,000 a year!

Each year the Zoological Society of Sioux Falls raises funds to improve exhibits, upgrade buildings and maintain quality habitats for the animals living at the Great Plains Zoo. By sponsoring an animal, you are contributing directly to those habitat improvements for all of the Zoo’s animals.

Your sponsorship is tax-deductible and lasts for one year. Adopt-an-Animal packages make wonderful gifts for birthdays, holidays and anniversaries!

Sponsorship Levels

Animal Adoptions are renewable each year. You may choose to continue supporting the same animal, or you may change to a different animal. All the animals listed are available to an unlimited number of sponsors.

Adoption levels are as follows:

• Zoo Friend ($25)
• Certificate of Sponsorship
• Animal Fact Sheet
• Window Cling
• Zoo Parent ($50)
• Everything in the $25 level plus:
• 5” x 7” Color Photo of Sponsored Animal
• 2 GPZDM Day Passes
• Zookeeper ($100)
• Everything in the $50 level plus:
• 12-month Subscription to the Rhino Review
• 2 Additional GPZDM Day Passes (total of 4)
• Zoo Curator ($250)
• Everything in the $100 level plus:
• 4 Additional GPZDM Day Passes (total of 8)
• Zoo Ambassador ($500)
• Everything in the $250 level plus:
• 25 GPZDM Youth Day Passes