Switch Zoo
Activities
There's a lot to do at the Switch Zoo website!

Make New Animals
Switch Zoo is the center of the site. You can visit nine different habitats and make new animals in each. While you play, you can read facts about each of the animals in your current combination. Learn more about the animals by reading their Profiles in the Resources section.

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gold handBe sure you don't miss any of the features in Switch Zoo! — Click the gold hand on the fence to open the hidden How to Play panel and find out about everything you can do in the zoo. Or you can click here to read How to Play before entering the zoo.


Play Other Games
Visit our games page to play a variety of games that challenge your knowledge, reflexes and perceptions!

Where Do I Live?
Where Do I Live?
You are the Animal Relocation Officer in charge of a major rescue operation. Challenge your knowledge of animal geography by moving the animals to their natural homes. 
Build an Online Habitat Build an Online Habitat
Match animals to the environment best suited for their survival. Watch the compatibility meter and thermometer for clues.
Catch the Moment
Catch the Moment
It takes a sharp eye and quick reflexes to snap photos of animals in their native habitat. Take your best shot in this wildlife photography game from Animal Planet.
Sound Match
Sound Match
Play this musical game that challenges you to identify the animals singing the songs.
Meerkat Grab-a-Snack
Meerkat Grab-a-Snack
Help meerkats catch their dinner in a game that was created for Animal Planet's series, Meerkat Manor.


The Switch Zoo Animal Orchestra performs Satie
Fur Elise
Dance of the Sugar Plum Furry

Concert Hall
Switch Zoo is home to the only known animal orchestra on earth!
(At least, it's the only one we know about!). You can hear the animals perform, listen to some of them individually, and read an interview with the (human) arranger to find out how the music was created.
The performances include:

Two works by Erik Satie accompany a selection of Ansel Adams photos. This page also features a sound player that lets you hear each animal's voice, and the interview with the arranger.

Fur Elise composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, is performed by a loon, two owls, cat, wood stork and cuckoo. The music accompanies photos of the performers, and the animals' names are displayed as they perform.

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is performed by twenty-seven animals. This musical Christmas card also displays the names of the animals as they perform.

Also in the Concert Hall, you can listen in on The Sounds of Switch Zoo by using an interactive map. Play the Sound Match game to test your ability to recognize animals by the sounds they make.


The Origin of Switch ZooThe Switcheroozeum
Visit Switch Zoo's museum to watch a movie called
The Mystery of Switch Zoo
, the surprising story of the unanswered questions about this strange zoo.

Animal Videos
Watch funny and interesting movies about pets and an assortment of other animals. You may be surprised by how clever they can be!


Use the main menu above to explore other parts of the zoo, including the Visitors' Pages to see stories, poems and drawings created by visitors to Switch Zoo, and the Resources section for Animal Profiles and an interactive Endangered Species Map.

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