Fort McMurray Wildlife Festival-Meet Anteaters, Sloths, Baby Capybaras, Kangaroos, and More!

Cost: From $16 and up

Date

May 16 2025

Time

1:00 pm

Location

MacDonald Island Park
1 C. A. Knight Way, Fort McMurray, AB T9H 5C5, Canada
Fort McMurray: Hang with an Anteater!! Spot a Sloth! Kiss a Kangaroo! Tangle with a Tortoise!
The Wildlife Festival returns for 2025 – debuting some fresh new faces, and returning with some people-pleasing favorites!!
Featuring Three Exhibits:
Destination Africa – Known as “the cradle of life”, meet some of the coolest creatures that roam the second largest continent on earth!
Depths of the Jungle – Hang out with sloths, snakes, and other animals that inhabit the world’s jungles.
Diversity of living things – Explore the similarities and differences of Earth’s creatures. Learn about diverse characteristics that make the natural world so amazing.
Three unique 20 minute, hands-on educational programs that cover aspects of our three exhibits:
Destination Africa – with over 1 MILLION species of animals, learn about and meet a few examples of Africa’s wild world
Depths of the Jungle – Learn about and meet some of the creatures that call the Jungles home
Diversity of living things – Let’s talk about some amazing adaptations that make the natural world so similar, and so different
Friday May 16th – 1:00 to 6:30pm (General Admission) 7:00pm – 9:00pm (Adults Only)
Saturday May 17th – 10:00 to 11:00am (Quiet Hour) 11:00 to 6:00 (General Admission)
Sunday May 18th – 10:00 to 5:00 (General Admission)