Halloweekend halloween, bones and pumpkins

Bats, Bones, and Walking with the Dead

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Tags: junior keepers, REC

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Halloween has always been a big deal here at Safari West, and this year may be the biggest yet. We’re really pulling out all the stops this time around and if you’ve never celebrated Halloween and Dia de los Muertos with Safari West, now’s the time to correct that mistake.

On Saturday, October 29th, you’re cordially invited to come attend our Halloween Spook-tacular! Like any good Halloween bash, costumes are highly encouraged, but with the catch that we want to see your most conservation-minded creation. What does that mean? Well, we’re not big fans of the cheap, few-use manufactured costumes that fill the shelves of big-box stores this time of year. Convenient though those may be, they tend to wind up in landfills by the first week of November and are almost always made of plastics and other non-biodegradables. Stun us with a clever costume made of recycled materials (clothes, boxes, old costumes, etc) and you may go home with free passes for one of our Classic Safari Tours.

Since you’ll already be in costume, you and yours should also take a turn on our Trick-or-Treat Trail! Visit our Conservation Pumpkin Patch, the Junior Keepers’ Mad Science Lab, the Wall of Skulls, and the Bone Garden, collecting candy all the way. This trail is not only a source of sugary sweetness, it’s also an amazing tour through some skeletal specimens of Safari West animals assembled by our dedicated Osteology Team (scientists of the skeleton). The Conservation Pumpkin Patch is a great place to support pumpkin-enrichment for the animals in our collection while simultaneously supporting the Vulture Conservation Foundation and their important work with some notoriously unnerving birds.

Around these activities, we’ll also be running our Trick-or-Trek bus tours. These mini-tours take place on our Nairobi bus and depart every 45 minutes starting at 10 am. Climb aboard and head out to meet giraffes, rhinos, watusi cattle, and antelope galore!

If all of this hasn’t satisfied your Halloween cravings, top off the day with a dinner reservation at the Savannah Café! Not only will you have a delicious dinner in sight of our haunting herds, you’ll also be able to attend an after dinner presentation by Corky Quirk of NorCal bats. She’ll be talking about our local bats and bringing some of them to meet you face-to-face!