Please be advised we are currently operating under a COVID Management Plan. Some entry restrictions apply. Please visit SA Health Contact Tracing website here for the most up-to-date information regarding South Australians restrictions. We expect to reach our COVID-19 capacity during this period – please book date-specific tickets online here. On days when we are sold out, a number of tickets *might* become available as guests leave.

Big Cat Interactive

Male African Lion at Adelaide Zoo
Women staring at Sumatran Tiger during Big Cat Interactive experience at Adelaide Zoo
Male and female African Lions at Adelaide Zoo

Please note, due to COVID-19 restrictions, we have suspended the sale of date-specific tickets to this animal experience until further notice. However, you can purchase a non-date-specific voucher.

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Feed our hungry cats their meaty lunch!

Ask people what the fiercest animals are at Adelaide Zoo and a lot of them will say big cats! Want to meet them?

Get within a whisker of these awesome predators and experience the thrill of looking an African Lion or Sumatran Tiger in the eye.

Learn all about lion and tiger conservation from our dedicated and knowledgeable keepers and hear stories of the charismatic cats who call Adelaide Zoo home.

Please note the minimum age for this experience is 10 years.

Highlights of this experience

  • Get closer than ever to some of the world’s most awesome predators
  • Hand feed our African Lions and Sumatran Tigers
  • Go behind the scenes and discover the carnivore area

Tigers are the largest living cats in the world, with the Sumatran Tiger being the smallest of the six tiger subspecies.

A lions roar can be heard from as far as eight kilometres away.

The pattern of a tiger’s stripes is unique to each animal, just like fingerprints are to humans. The stripes are found on a tiger’s skin and, if shaved, its distinctive pattern would remain.

How your ticket helps our conservation efforts

One hundred years ago it was estimated that there were 100,000 wild tigers – today the number is thought to be as few as 3,200. The Sumatran Tiger is the last surviving subspecies of tiger in Indonesia and current estimates indicate there is around 300-500 left in the wild with a rapidly decreasing trend due to habitat destruction for unsustainable palm oil plantations and poaching for the illegal wildlife trade.

By purchasing a ticket to our Big Cat Interactive encounter at Adelaide Zoo, you are not only supporting the incredible species in our care, you’re also helping us raise awareness and valuable funds to safeguard their wild cousins. Part of the income generated from our Animal Experiences contributes to the work Zoos SA does in support of a wide number of conservation programs both within and beyond our gates.

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