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PARKING:
The Zoo parking lot entrance is on Kapahulu Avenue
Parking fee: $1.50 an hour/4 hour max
(15828)

For annual memberships, education programs, volunteers and fundraising please visit www.honoluluzoo.org .

10/31/2026

These guys only exist in ONE place on Earth!!! & they’re also the most endangered group of mammals on the planet.
Happy World Lemur Day!! Swipe through for your daily dose of the most important little weirdos in the animal kingdom. 💛

10/25/2026

Happy World Gibbon Day!! Sound on to hear Japan and Bono, our white handed gibbon pair, sing their morning duet!

These calls can travel more than half a mile through the rainforest, helping pairs strengthen their connection and announce their territory to neighboring gibbons. 💚

10/22/2026

Imagine a world where the only place you could come see some of these animals was in a photograph….

For more than 1 in 5 reptile species, extinction is a very real threat.

Across the world, reptiles are losing habitat, facing pressure from invasive species, and disappearing from ecosystems where they’ve played important roles for millions of years.

Here at the Honolulu Zoo, some of the reptiles you’ll meet, from our gharial to our Galápagos tortoises, belong to species facing an uncertain future in the wild.

And living in Hawaiʻi, we know just how much is at stake when a species disappears from an ecosystem.

This Reptile Awareness Day, we hope you’ll spend a little more time getting to know these remarkable animals. Because understanding what we stand to lose is part of learning how to protect it. 💚

10/18/2026

Welcome to Goat Guesser!! 🐐 Can our keepers name our goats blindfolded? Stay till the end for a little bonus (or two) 😉

10/12/2026

100+ years of eating your vegetables. Imagine that!! 🥬🐢

These incredible Galapagos tortoises can live well over a century, spending much of their lives grazing on plants and taking things at their own pace.

And the tortoises your keiki meet today could be the same ones their keiki come to visit someday. 💚 isn’t that pretty special?

Come say aloha to Charlotte and our Galápagos tortoises during your next trip to the zoo. It’s been too long since your last visit!

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10/07/2026

Caught Raisin & Lilikoi striking a pose! African painted dogs get their name from their beautifully mottled coats, and no two have exactly the same pattern.

They’re highly social pack animals who work together to care for one another. They’re also in the wild, which makes the opportunity to care for them here and help our community get to know this incredible species pretty special. 🤎

Come say aloha to our painted dog pack on your next visit!

📸: Keeper Marcos

10/04/2026

Trust is part of the job 🤙🏽 and today we’re celebrating the people who earn it every day for !!

Our keepers know their animals deeply and their work stretches far beyond feeding and cleaning. They are caregivers, observers, trainers, educators and conservationists, bringing years of knowledge and experience to the animals in their care and to the species we work to protect.

Much of that work happens quietly, away from guests and cameras. But it is the foundation of everything we do here.

To our Honolulu Zoo keeper team: mahalo nui for your patience, your knowledge, and the trust you work so hard to earn. We wouldn’t be here without you. 💚

10/01/2026

I ka wā ma mua, ka wā ma hope. 🌿
We look to the past as a guide to the future.

September is Hawaiian History Month, a time to honor Queen Liliʻuokalani and deepen our understanding of the people, places, mele and moʻolelo that continue to shape Hawaiʻi today.

As the month comes to a close, we’re reflecting on Mālama ʻĀina.

Mālama ʻĀina is often understood as caring for the land, but it carries a deeper sense of relationship and reciprocity. Mālama ʻĀina can also take many forms.

Here at the Honolulu Zoo, we see it in caring for the animals entrusted to us. In working alongside partners to protect Hawaiʻi’s native species and ecosystems. In sharing knowledge with keiki and ʻohana. And in helping build relationships with the living world that can be carried from one generation to the next.

Hawaiian History Month also reminds us to know the places we move through every day.

We are part of Kapiʻolani Park, in the presence of Leʻahi, in a place whose history reaches back long before the Honolulu Zoo. Caring for this place means continuing to learn its moʻolelo, listening to those who hold and share that knowledge, and understanding the responsibility we have to care for what has been entrusted to us.

Kepakemapa ends today. But the moʻolelo, the learning and the mālama always continue.

Mahalo nui. 🤎

09/23/2026

It’s World Rhino Day!!! Let’s show a little extra ❤️ to our black rhino family and celebrate just how special it is to have them here at the Honolulu Zoo!

Our zoo is part of the Species Survival Plan, which is zoos working together to help care for endangered species and make sure they’re still around for generations to come. It’s how Aria and Kendi came to us, and in 2023, they welcomed ʻAkamu, the very first black rhino born at the Honolulu Zoo. 🥹

Black rhinos are critically endangered, so having this little family here is about so much more than getting to see some really cool rhinos.

It means our zoo here in Honolulu gets to be part of something much bigger. And we’re pretty proud of that. 🦏🤍

Happy World Rhino Day!

📸: Keeper Max

09/22/2026

51!!! Our girl Mari is 51! 🐘🥹💛

This weekend, our Asian elephant Mari celebrated her 51st birthday!! And today, on Elephant Appreciation Day, we couldn’t think of anyone more special to celebrate.

There’s something pretty incredible about getting to love and care for an animal for this many years. Mari has been a familiar and much loved face to generations of families on Oʻahu, and we feel so lucky that new generations of keiki still get to come through our gates, meet her, and fall in love with elephants because of her!

And no one knows and loves Mari quite like her keepers. 💛 They’re with her every day, caring for her, learning all her little quirks and favorite things, and making sure milestones like this one are celebrated BIG. We’re so grateful for the love they pour into Mari and all of the animals in their care.

Did you know? Asian elephants are actually endangered, and that makes every opportunity to know, learn from, and care about an elephant like Mari that much more meaningful.

Hau’oli lā hānau, Mari! 🐘🎂 We love you so much. Help us celebrate our girl and leave her some birthday love below!

📸: Keepers Kealiʻi & Mara

Address

151 Kapahulu Avenue
Honolulu, HI
96815

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 3pm
Tuesday	10am - 3pm
Wednesday	10am - 3pm
Thursday	10am - 3pm
Friday	10am - 3pm
Saturday	10am - 3pm
Sunday	10am - 3pm

Telephone

(808) 971-7171

Website

http://honoluluzoo.org/, https://www.honoluluzoo.org/visit-honolulu-zoo/, https://www.honoluluzoo.org/zoo-app/

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