Blank Park Zoo is having a glow up — literally. Chinese lanterns shaped like animals, insects and plants take over for the ...

Blank Park Zoo will light up with Chinese lanterns this spring for the 2025 Wild Lights Festival.

Explore the Blank Park Zoo in a new light this weekend. Wild Lights returns to the zoo starting this Saturday, April 5.

What's new at the Blank Park Zoo's Wild Lights ...

A hit with locals and visiting families, the Blank Park Zoo sits on 49 acres, 22 of which are home to animal facilities and exhibits. Nearly 1,500 animals representing more than 100 species live here.

One of two baby cotton-top tamarins born recently at Des Moines' Blank Park Zoo has died. The twin monkeys were born in February, almost exactly a year after mom, Kida, gave birth to another set ...

THAT INTEL WAS GATHERED. WE HAVE A SAD UPDATE TO PASS ALONG TONIGHT. BLANK PARK ZOO SAYS ONE OF ITS THREE WEEK OLD COTTONTOP TAMARIN BABIES HAS DIED. THE TWINS WERE BORN FEBRUARY 18TH. LOOK AT ...

The tiger arrived to the zoo in 2008 after being rescued from a wildlife trafficking operation, the zoo said. It lived to age ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Blank Park Zoo announced one of its cotton-top tamarin infants born in February has died. The three-week-old tamarin was found alone and away from its family last Friday ...

Warren Zeiders, Poetry Palooza, "Carmina Burana," and Wild Lights Festival keep everyone entertained this weekend in Des ...