The Living Desert - Adopt An Animal

Adopt-An-Animal

Adopt a Giraffe or an Ostrich...

Or many of the marvelous animals at The Living Desert. By contributing an annual adoption fee, you help provide food, health care and housing for your chosen animal species. Moreover, you become an important part of The Living Desert's conservation effort and help ensure the health and well being of our entire animal collection.

Whether you choose an animal from the local desert or from a desert around the world -- even a rare or endangered species -- when you take a wild animal into your heart, you make an impact world wide. Of course, your animal stays at The Living Desert under the care of the Animal Department staff.

Adoption fees range from $1,000 for the giraffes, $500 for the ostriches, $300 for our awesome mountain lions, $75 for a gila monster or just $35 for an eleodes beetle.

If you would like to adopt a tortoise for your home, please contact Bill Powers at 760-346-5694, ext. 2201 or email at bpowers@livingdesert.org.

A Unique Gift

You can become an important part of The Living Desert’s conservation through our Adopt! program. Help provide food, health care and housing for your favorite Living Desert animal by adopting its species for one year. All of the animals at The Living Desert need specialized diets, daily supervision, inoculations and creature comforts in a natural environment. Adoption fees help cover these costs and they are tax deductible.

Enlarge your family circle with gift adoptions for birthdays, holidays, anniversaries or any special occasion. Adoption is a fun and easy way to be an important part of The Living Desert. Please remember, zoo animals may be temporarily off exhibit. If the animal leaves for any reason, your gift will be transferred to another animal for the remainder of your adoption year. No ownership rights are conferred by this “adoption.” Individuals, families, businesses, schools, clubs, teams, groups - anyone can take a wild animal
to heart!

What Are The Rewards?

A personalized adoption certificate* and photograph of your animal, framed in an attractive card
An invitation to the annual Adopt! reception hosted by The Living Desert
Your name, designated individual's or group's name goes on our Adopt! recognition boards at the Wildlife Hospital. (Please allow 4-6 weeks)
With gift adoptions, a coordinated gift card announcing your gift
With adoptions $300 and up, a Behind-The-Scenes visit with your animal, arranged through our Adopt! coordinator

*Because our animal collection changes periodically, you may become an adoptive parent for an entire species rather than an individual animal. Species may be adopted by more than one sponsor.

$1000.00
Reticulated Giraffe

$750.00
Camel Grevy's Zebra*	Leopard*

$500.00
Arabian Oryx Bighorn Sheep* Cheetah* Cuvier’s Gazelle*	Mhorr Gazelle* Ostrich Striped Hyena Warthog

$300.00
Addax* African Wild Dog* Ankole Cattle	Mexican Wolf* Mountain Lion Slender-Horned Gazelle*

$150.00
Aardwolf Abyssinian Ground Hornbill African Crested Porcupine Bobcat Caracal Coyote Fennec Fox*	Golden Eagle Gunther’s Dik-Dik Ocelot* Sand Cat* Red-Tailed Hawk Serval* Sicilian Donkey

$75.00
Arabian Wildcat Badger Barn Owl Bat-Eared Fox Black Crowned Night Heron Black Vulture Coati Common Raven Crested Caracara* Desert Tortoise* East African Crowned Crane Eurasian Black Vulture* Ferruginous Hawk Gila Monster* Great Blue Heron Great Egret Great Horned Owl Harris Hawk* Jacob’s Sheep	Javelina (Collared Peccary) Meerkat Mexican Milksnake Mohave Rattlesnake Nigerian Dwarf Goat Nubian Goat Pallid Bat Peregrine Falcon Prairie Falcon Racquet-Tailed Roller Red-Bellied Parrot Red Diamond Rattlesnake Roadrunner Swift Fox* Thick-Billed Parrot* Turkey Vulture Waldrapp Ibis* Western Diamondback Rattlesnake

$50.00
Acorn Woodpecker African Spur-Thighed Tortoise American Kestrel Antelope Ground Squirrel Burrowing Owl* California Kingsnake Carve-billed Thrasher Cinnamon Teal Egyptian Goose Fulvous Whistling Duck Gila Woodpecker Golden-Breasted Starling Gopher Snake Green Heron Green Jay Indian Star Tortoise* Kori Bustard* Leopard Tortoise	Long-Eared Owl Mexican Cacique Mourning Dove Pygmy Owl Rock Hyrax Rosy Boa Round-tailed Ground Squirrel Scops Owl Screech Owl Scrub Jay Sidewinder Spur-Winged Plover Western Chuckwalla White-Bellied Bustard White-Headed Buffalo Weaver White-Winged Dove Yellow-Billed Stork

$35.00
African Fat-Tailed Gecko American Cockroach Banded Gecko Black Widow Spider Cairo Spiny Mouse Desert Hairy Scorpion Desert Pupfish*	Desert Tarantula Eleodes Beetle (Stink Bug) Hummingbird Leopard Gecko Naked Mole Rat Painted Lady Butterfly

If you would like more information or a brochure sent to you, call
760-346-5694, ext. 2165.

* Indicates Threatened or Endangered.

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