Woodland Park Zoo Lowers the Temperature (with Icy Treats)

A New Zealand Kunekune pig takes a cool bath in a kiddie pool. (Photo: Ryan Hawk/Woodland Park Zoo)

When it gets hot! hot! hot! like this, zoo animals swelter, too. Woodland Park Zoo finds ways of helping them have fun, as well as cope with the heat. Today, Friday, if you swing by the zoo’s Family Farm at 1 p.m., you can watch Kunekune pigs from New Zealand living it up in their kiddie pool. (They’re only seven months old so it’s age appropriate.) At 1:30 p.m. on the Northern Trail, grizzly bears and otters get icy treats (juice and mixed fruits, and fish). If you can’t make it, it might be viewable on their bear cam.

The zoo also holds daily feedings that the public can participate in; getting up close with a giraffe or an elephant will set you back $5.

The Woodland Park Zoo’s summer hours are 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Admission (through September 30) is $17.75 for adults, $11.50 for children (3-12), and if you can pull off being a toddler, you get in free.

Michael van Baker

Publisher & Editor in Chief
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MvB moved to Seattle in 1987 to attend Seattle University, and his affection for things with Seattle in the name is as yet undiminished. Earlier incarnations have seen him wearing marketing hats at Seattle Opera and the San Francisco Examiner. He wrote for Seattlest from 2005-09, becoming arts editor and editor-in-chief before leaving to found The SunBreak in September 2009.

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