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Great Plains Zoo, Sioux Falls: Ticket prices, hours and what to see

The Great Plains Zoo is an AZA-accredited zoo operated by Sioux Falls Zoo & Aquarium, located at 805 S Kiwanis Avenue in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips to help you plan your visit.…

Visiting Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium: practical guide for first-timers

Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium is a 160-acre zoo and aquarium located at 3701 S 10th Street, Omaha, Nebraska, open year-round to the public. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips to help you plan your visit. Updated…

David Fleay Wildlife Park, Gold Coast: ticket prices, opening hours and tips – plan your visit

David Fleay Wildlife Park is a Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service–managed fauna reserve at the corner of West Burleigh Road and Loman Lane, West Burleigh, on the Gold Coast. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, parking, transport, accessibility, and practical visitor tips for 2026.…

One of the koalas at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary on Queensland's Gold Coast.

Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, Gold Coast: ticket prices, opening hours and tips – plan your visit

Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary is a not-for-profit wildlife park covering 27 hectares of bushland and rainforest at 28 Tomewin Street, Currumbin, on the Gold Coast, Queensland. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, parking, transport, accessibility, and practical visitor tips for 2026. To get slightly cheaper…

Seals on the journey to Staffa in Scotland.

The best places to see seals in Scotland: Your complete guide

Scotland has two resident seal species: the grey seal and the smaller harbour seal (also called the common seal). Combined, they account for roughly 40 per cent of the world's grey seal population and around 30 per cent of Europe's harbour seals. In short, Scotland…

The best places to see whales in Western Australia

Western Australia sits astride one of the great whale migration routes on earth. The Humpback Highway — as the west coast migration corridor is known locally — carries more than 35,000 humpback whales past the state's coastline each year, travelling north from their Antarctic feeding…

Dolphins are found along much of the South Carolina coast.

The best places to see dolphins in South Carolina: Your complete guide

South Carolina's coastline is one of the finest stretches of bottlenose dolphin habitat on the US Atlantic seaboard. The state's network of tidal creeks, salt marshes and sheltered sounds creates ideal conditions for the resident pods that live here year-round. Add the Intracoastal Waterway threading…

The best places to see alligators in Florida

Florida has more American alligators than any other state — an estimated 1.3 million of them, living in virtually every freshwater habitat in the peninsula. They occupy lakes, rivers, marshes, roadside ditches and, occasionally, suburban golf courses. Seeing an alligator in Florida is not difficult.…

Sea lions at Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco.

The best places to see sea lions in California: Your complete guide

The California sea lion is one of the most abundant and adaptable marine mammals on the Pacific coast. Intelligent, vocal and apparently unbothered by human attention, it has colonised harbour walls, marina pontoons and rocky outcrops from the Mexican border to the Oregon state line.…

Dolphins swimming in Port Stephens, New South Wales.

The best places to see dolphins in New South Wales, Australia

New South Wales has an extraordinary coastline — 2,000 kilometres of it. From the subtropical waters off Byron Bay to the cold-water estuaries of the far south coast, bottlenose dolphins are resident along virtually the entire stretch. Several bays and headlands also see common dolphins,…