Brandywine Zoo - A.D.O.P.T. Program

Animals Depend On People Too

The Brandywine Zoo's A.D.O.P.T. (Animals Depend On People Too) program invites individuals, school groups, businesses, civic and service organizations to "adopt" a Zoo animal for a year. The "adoption fees" are used to develop animal habitats at the Brandywine Zoo.

An adoption is a wonderful gift idea and your contribution is tax deductible. Participants in the Adoption Program receive a Certificate of Adoption, a copy of "Zoo News" (the zoo's quarterly newsletter) and their names are displayed on the Honor Roll of Zoo Parents.

Naturally the adoption is for sponsorship purposes only. The animals all stay at the Zoo. Because of their popularity, more than one parent may adopt some animals.

Participants may become a parent for a different animal each year or they may renew their adoption with the same animal as often they wish.

Here is an example of an acknowledgement letter and an Adoption Certificate.

Animals to be Adopted
$15 - LIST A Black-Headed Caique Hedgehog Mallard Duck Ring-Neck Pheasant Cattle Egret Chinchilla Common Merganser (Duck) Cinnamon Teal (Duck) Corn Snake Pin-tailed Duck Opossum Rabbit Shoveler Duck $25 - LIST B Common Boa Matamata Turtle Pygmy Goat Ferret Rhea Green Iguana Coati Leopard Tortoise Red-Eared Slider Box Turtle	$35 - LIST C Bearded Dragon Marine Toad $50 - LIST D Greater Sandhill Crane Golden Lion Tamarin Red Handed Tamarin Common Marmoset Golden-Headed Tamarin Goeldi's Monkey Cotton Top Tamarin Black Tufted-Ear Marmoset $75 - LIST E Blue & Yellow Macaw Scarlet Macaw Burmese Python African Ball Python $100 - LIST F Anaconda Llama Burrowing Owl	$150 - LIST G Prehensile-Tailed Porcupine Andean Condor $200 - LIST H Florida Bobcat Otter Two-Toed Sloth Clouded Leopard Serval $500 - LIST I Capybara Binturong $1000 - LIST J Siberian Tiger

To order an Animal Adoption or for more information about the A.D.O.P.T. Program, call (302) 571-7788.