Plan Your Visit to Edinburgh Zoo
We are open every day of the year, including Christmas Day, from 9am until:
| 6.00pm | April - Sept. |
| 5.00pm | Oct. & March |
| 4.30pm | Nov. - Feb. |
How you can help
The natural world needs our help...and we need yours! Please consider making a donation to support our conservation, education and research work, both within our parks and across the world.
Primary Classes P4 - P7
Bone Detectives
Label the bones of the human skelton.
Cycle of Life
Match up the adults to their young.
Baby Boom ANSWERS (pdf 1040KB)
Endangered Animals
Find out background information on endangered animals with this teacher's information sheet.
Explore the Zoo with this Endangered Animals activity. Find out the answers to questions about endangered animals as you make your way round the Zoo.
Endangered Animals activity (pdf 397 Kb)This trail is a marked out route for school groups to follow to see and find out about endangered animals in the Zoo.
Endangered Animals trail (pdf 437 Kb)Use this activity sheet to record how endangered animals are, either as you make your way round the Zoo or in the classroom as a research project.
IUCN Red List activity sheet (pdf 87 Kb)Rainforest Explorers
Find out background information on rainforests with this teacher's information sheet.
Explore the Zoo with this Rainforest Animals activity. Find out the answers to questions about rainforest animals as you make your way round the Zoo.
This trail is a marked out route for school groups to follow to see and find out about rainforest animals in the Zoo.
Use this activity sheet to sort rainforest animals into the different rainforest layers.
Fill in the missing animal patterns on the following activity sheets.
Variety of Life
Find out background information on animal classification with this teacher's information sheet.
This trail is a marked out route for school groups to follow to see some of the Zoo's vertebrates.
Use this classification key to group animals by their different characteristics.
Use this activity sheet to record the differences between the five vertebrate groups.
Extra Zoo Trails
This trail is a marked out route for school groups to follow to find out about animal senses.
Extra Activity Sheets
A zoo quiz for primary groups to use during their visit to the Zoo.