Experience the modernized and recently renovated Manila zoo. The zoo offers an affordable entrance fee and features animals from all over the world. Explore, learn, and get active.
MANILA ZOO ENTRANCE FEE
- ADULT AND CHILDREN
Manila Resident: ₱150
Non-Resident: ₱300 - STUDENT
Manila Resident: ₱100
Non-Resident: ₱200 - PWD/SENIOR CITIZEN
20% Discount on prescribed fees - 2y/o AND BELOW
FREE - Gov Employee/Teachers of Manila
₱100
MANILA ZOO OPENING HOURS
- Manila Zoo is open daily from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
ABOUT MANILA ZOO
Manila Zoo in the public zoo in the City of Manila. It first opened its doors on July 25, 1959.
The Manila Zoological and Botanical Garden is home to 1,000 animals of 90 different species. Among the many animals that call the recently rebuilt and expanded Manila Zoo home are the Bengal tiger, Malayan civet, monitor lizard, and hippopotamus. Most of these creatures were born in zoos, with the most recent births taking place in April 2015.
The Manila Zoo also features a botanical garden where over 10.000 species are grown and reproduced.
The City of Manila and its team of botanists and zoologists from the Philippines diligently monitor and safeguard every living thing in the Manila Zoo.
ANIMALS AT THE MANILA ZOO
MAMMALS
- AFRICAN LION
- ASIAN ELEPHANT
- BENGAL TIGER
- CELEBES BLACK APE
- HEBRA
- PHILIPPINE DEER
- SIBERIAN TIGER
- PHILIPPINE MONKEY
- PHILIPPINE PALM CIVET
AVIAN
- BLEEDING HEART PIGEON
- BLUE PEAFOWL
- BRAHMINY KITE
- DOUBLED WATTLED CASSOWARY
- EGRET
- EURASIA COLLARED DOVE
- MULTI-COLORED STORK
- PALAWAN PHEASANT
- PHILIPPINE SERPENT EAGLE
- PHILIPPINE SWAMPHEN
- SEVERE MACAW
- SULFUR CRESTED COCKATOO
- BLACK CROWNED NIGHT HERON
- CATALINA MACAW
- COCKATIEL
- CRESTED MYNAH
- EAGLE OWL
- GIANT SCOPS OWL
- GREEN-WINGED MACAW
- MOLUCCAN COCKATOO
- OSTRICH
- RUFOUS NIGHT HERON
REPTILES
- AFRICAN BALL PYTHON
- BURMESE PYTHON
- ELONGATA TORTOISE
- MONITOR LIZARD
- PHILIPPINE CROCODILE
- PHILIPPINE SPLITTING COBRA
- PIG NOSED TURTLE
- RAT SNAKE
- RED IGUANA
- RETICULATED PYTHON
- SAIL FIN LIZARD
- BOX TURTLE
- CHINESE GOLDEN THREAD TURTLE
- ESTUARINE CROCODILE
- RED-EARED SLIDER TURTLE
- SOFT-SHELLED TURTLE
AQUATIC
- ALLIGATOR GAR
- GIANT PANGASIUS CATFISH
- GOLD FISH
- JAPANESE CARP
- OSCAR
- RED PACU
ABOUT MALI
The center of attraction at the Manila Zoo is Ma’ali (Vishwama’ali) more commonly known as Mali, a female Asian elephant that the Sri Lankan government donated in 1977.
Mali spent her early years in Sri Lanka’s Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage after her mother passed away of natural causes. The Sri Lankan government gifted Mali to Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos in 1977, when Mali was three years old.
Mali was born in 1974 and is currently 48 years old (2022). She is the lone elephant that is living in Manila Zoo.

Photograph: Facebook/Manila Zoo Official
MANILA ZOO GUIDELINES
For the welfare and safety of both visitors and the animals, the Public Recreations Bureau (PRB), which oversees the Manila Zoo, has developed a set of rules and regulations.
Please abide by all regulations, instructions, and signs placed wherever on the Zoo grounds.
- RESPECT THE ANIMALS
- DO NOT FEED THE ANIMALS
- NO SMOKING
- NO LITTERING
- NO OUTSIDE FOOD AND DRINKS ALLOWED
- PETS ARE NOT ALLOWED INSIDE THE ZOO PREMISES
- BALLOONS AND ALL KINDS OF TOYS ARE NOT ALLOWED INSIDE
- CHILDREN MUST BE SUPERVISED AT ALL TIMES
- DO NOT PLUCK THE FLOWERS
- DO NOT STEP ON THE GRASS
CONTACT INFORMATION AND SOCIAL SITES
- Email: manilazoo@manila.gov.ph
- Facebook: Manila Zoo Official
LOCATION OF MANILA ZOO
Manila Zoo Address
M. Adriatico St, Malate, Manila, 1004 Metro Manila, Philippines
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