City of Three Rivers Michigan

The zoo will be open: May 12 to June 9 Saturdays 12-5 June 16 to September 2 Saturdays 12-5 and Sundays 12-3 September 8 to October 27 Saturdays 12-5

Join us at the Petting Zoo during Water Festival to celebrate the community’s 175th birthday!  The petting zoo will be open Friday and Saturday from noon to 5 p.m.  As a special treat, Bacon the Potbellied Pig will be in the front yard and available to feed during the festival.

The African Pygmy Hedgehog is a hybrid of two wild varieties of hedgehog. Many of them are afraid of humans. The most famous Scidmore hedgehog was “Broomhilda the first” who adored human attention. In the wild hedgehogs eat insects and small amounts of fruits and vegetables. They are short-lived and prone to diseases including cancer [...]

The Eastern Box is semi-aquatic, omnivorous, and native to the eastern part of the United States. In the wild, box turtles may live 80 years or more, but in captivity they may live to only 40. Box Turtles cannot reproduce until they are 10 or 20 years of age, and 80% of those born do [...]

The Sugar Glider is a nocturnal marsupial from Australia.  They glide through the air like a flying squirrel (but are not related to squirrels). Females have a pouch in which they raise their young. In the wild many do not survive their first year, but in captivity they can live 15 years. Wild Sugar Gliders [...]

The Moluccan Cockatoo, also known as the Salmon-crested Cockatoo is from the lowland forests of Moluccas and Indonesia, and is an endangered species in the wild. The Moluccan Cockatoo is considered to be one of the most demanding pets, due to high intelligence, large size, potential noise level, and destructive “chewing”. They are highly social [...]