Blank Park Zoo is having a glow up — literally. Chinese lanterns shaped like animals, insects and plants take over for the ...

Blank Park Zoo will light up with Chinese lanterns this spring for the 2025 Wild Lights Festival.

Blank Park Zoo is having a glow up — literally. The annual Wild Lights Festival is back at Blank Park Zoo for its fifth year. This year's theme is animals, insects and plants. Visitors of all ...

Explore the Blank Park Zoo in a new light this weekend. Wild Lights returns to the zoo starting this Saturday, April 5.

THAT INTEL WAS GATHERED. WE HAVE A SAD UPDATE TO PASS ALONG TONIGHT. BLANK PARK ZOO SAYS ONE OF ITS THREE WEEK OLD COTTONTOP TAMARIN BABIES HAS DIED. THE TWINS WERE BORN FEBRUARY 18TH. LOOK AT ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Blank Park Zoo announced one of its cotton-top tamarin infants born in February has died. The three-week-old tamarin was found alone and away from its family last Friday ...

One of two baby cotton-top tamarin twins born recently at Des Moines' Blank Park Zoo has died, the zoo announced. The Blank Park Zoo welcomed the pair of cotton-top tamarin monkeys in February ...

The tiger arrived to the zoo in 2008 after being rescued from a wildlife trafficking operation, the zoo said. It lived to age 17.

A hit with locals and visiting families, the Blank Park Zoo sits on 49 acres, 22 of which are home to animal facilities and exhibits. Nearly 1,500 animals representing more than 100 species live here.