Animal Antics

Edinburgh Zoo's Animal Antics show is a daily adventure!  Follow our presenters as our animals showcase their prodigious natural abilities.  Experience the thrill of birds flying low over your head and see our animals doing gravity-defying balancing acts.  The shows also offer the opportunity for you, the audience, to participate! 

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The animals vary between shows, as we work solely with animals who are willing to be involved.  Our aim is for the animals to display natural behaviours as instinctively as they would in the wild.  Previous Animal Antics shows have included rainbow lorikeets, tawny owls, kune kune pigs, turkey vultures and rats.

Positive Reinforcement

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We train our animals in presentations by using positive reinforcement, which means that the animals never do anything they don't want to do.  If they choose to participate, then we reward them with their favourite food.  

Time and Place

Summer shows take place every day at 12.15 pm and 3 pm at the Hilltop Arena in the summer.  Winter shows begin at 3.30 pm every weekend at Budongo Trail.