EXPLORING BEYOND OKLAHOMA
While it is recommended to visit the park during the warmer months so your family can see all the amazing animals, Tanganyika makes a great destination any time of the year as many of the animal experiences are indoors. Our family visited during an unusually cold spring day. These experiences are memorable for any age — our young kids (and their parents!) thoroughly enjoyed them all! The Africa/Asian Barn Upon entering the barn, you are immediately greeted by legs. Lots of legs! Once you become reoriented, your gaze follows those legs up to the highest heights where you find the sweetest, kindest eyes you’ve ever seen. Many of us haven’t been close enough to a giraffe to really take in the full scope of how tall they are. Male giraffes can grow up to 18 feet! During this experience, you move up to the second level of the barn, where you can be eye-level with even the tallest giraffes. The keepers handed out heads of lettuce that we hand-fed to each giraffe after they “booped” a red balloon! The keepers were quick to mention that if any animal in their park doesn’t feel comfortable participating in a training game or feeding exercise, they are never forced. We were all encouraged to be gentle, move slowly and take the animals’ lead. During this experience, we also met a warthog and several kinds of monkeys with their precious babies.
Close Encounters Tanganyika keepers have hand-crafted 15 “animal feeding encounters and experiences” within the park, including meeting lemurs, lorikeets, otters, pygmy hippos, small cats and more. Each experience can be selected as an add-on to admission or included in a “best day bundle” for your family.
CHOOSE FROM 15 ANIMAL FEEDING ENCOUNTERS AND EXPERIENCES.
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