Toronto Zoo Connectionz: A Review

By: Zara Willmott

Toronto Zoo Connectionz: A review of this amazing tour! For those who don’t know what Zoo connectionz is, it is a virtual tour of the Toronto Zoo.

What It Is:

“Bring the Zoo into your home, business, or community group and learn about the wonderful wildlife while having a little fun too! The Zoo offers multiple ways of connecting with the animals and learning all about them from the comfort and safety of your device. Just choose an option and we will be excited to welcome you to the Toronto Zoo!” From the Toronto Zoo Website

1. Virtual Visit:

This virtual visit will highlight an area of the Zoo (that you choose) and give you a chance to see several of the animals residing there.

• An approximately 40-minute interactive view of a region of the Zoo and will include a Q&A session at the end of the visit.
• A Zoo-hosted virtual platform (for example, Zoom) that you will connect to for up to 100 devices OR you can invite the Zoo to join your hosted connection if you prefer to manage your group during the connection.

2. Virtual Meet and Greet:

This is a short visit and with an animal ambassador who makes a special appearance! Choose from a selection of ambassadors

• A 15-minute appearance of a type of animal selected by you.
• The opportunity for you to ask questions about the animal during the 15-minute appearance.
• A Zoo-hosted virtual platform (for example, Zoom) that you will connect to for up to 100 devices OR you can invite the Zoo to join your hosted connection if you prefer to manage your group during the connection.

Options Available:

For the virtual tour, you can choose any of these Zoo Areas

• African Rainforest
• African Savanna
• Indo-Malayan Rainforest
• tropical Americas
• Arctic Tundra
• Australasia
• Eurasia

And for the Meet and Greet you can choose any of these animals:

Why You Should do It:

For Mother’s Day, we offered a Zoo tour of the Savannah to all moms both human and fur. It was a huge hit.

Our tour guide was very friendly and knowledgeable about the animals we saw. The tour was 45 minutes long allowing us to see many of the Zoo’s savannah inhabitants including cheetahs, hyenas, hippos and giraffes. Our tour guide would stop and Zoom in on the animal at each location to make sure we got a good view and then share some facts about them. She answered any questions we had during the tour as well as at the end.

During the tour, the animals were active and not reclusive. we even got to see the hippos out of the water! We had such a great time

I would definitely book another tour, I might even try a Meet and Greet. Click here to find out more about this unique Zoo opportunity