Family Membership for a year to the America's Teaching Zoo!

   7075 Campus Road
   Moorpark, CA 93021
   (805) 378-1441 

http://www.moorparkcollege.edu/current_students/teaching_zoo/

This 5 acre zoo housing nearly 200 exotic animals is part of the college's Exotic Animal Training and Management Program and is open each weekend from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.  This interesting collection has included all sorts of animals, from alligators to geckos to elephants to emus to tigers, etc.  There are also camels and snakes and ocelots. 

Students in the program are required to work most days and weekends.  For a truly unique wild animal experience you must stop by and check it out.  Don't expect anything fancy.  This place is very low key.  But it is a lot of fun as it is not crowded and you can get really really close to the animals.  We visited and they had several shows in the span of an hour where students showed us an owl, chinchilla, coyote and several other wild animals.  This huge Galapagos Tortoise is Clarence.