Tanganyika Wildlife Park - Goddard, Kansas

Tanganyika
Wildlife Park
1000 South Hawkins Lane
Goddard, Kansas 67052
(316) 794-8954

Open daily until November 16, 2025
By apointment only untill mid March

Reservations Required
Spring + Fall – $99.99 per person
Summer- $149.99 per person

Tanganyika Wildlife Park - Goddard, Kansas

Tanganyika Wildlife Park Map

Tanganyika Wildlife Park

Tanganyika Wildlife Park near Goddard, Kansas opened to the public in June of 2008. Prior to that, the Tanganyika Wildlife Park was a private zoo. Tanganyika is a non-profit breeding facility for rare and endangered species. Species represented in the park include giraffes, tigers, clouded leopards, black rhinoceros, and zebras.

Tanganyika Wildlife Park distinguishes itself from other Kansas zoos by emphasizing interaction between visitors and the animals, There are many opportunities to feed or pet wildlife as diverse as lemurs, camels, birds and snakes.

There are additional charges for experiences like swimming with the penguins ($249/person), encounter with a sloth ($117/person), otter meet & greet ($117/person) or big cat feeding ($107/person)

Petting a goat at Tanganyika
Tanganyika staff introducing babies to visitors

Petting a crested porcupine (Hystrix cristata)

feeding a Ringed tail lemur at Tanganyika zoo
feeding a Ringed tail lemur (Lemur catta)

Dromedary camel at Tanganyika Zoo
Dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius)

Swainson's Blue Mountain Lory (parrot)
Petting and feeding Swainson's Blue Mountain Lories Trichoglossus haematodus moluccanus

Tanganyika Wildlife Park is a non-profit breeding facility for rare and endangered species. Tanganyika Wildlife Park is the largest breeder of snow leopards in the world.

giraffe at Tanganyika Wildlife Park

child feeding a girrafe at Tanganyika Wildlife Park
Feeding a giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) at the old Tanganyika private zoo. This has recently become common at zoos,
but Tanganyika was the first zoo where I encountered it.

snow leopard cub at the Tanganyika zoo
One of two snow leopards (Uncia uncia) born in July 2007 at the Tanganyika Wildlife Park.

black-footed penguins at Tanganyika WIldlife Park
Tanganyika continues to add new exhibits such as this one with African penguins (Spheniscus demersus),
also known as black-footed penguins

Tanganyika Wildlife Park Map

Tanganyika Wildlife Park website
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