Zooniversity-The Teaching Zoo That Comes to You!

Zooniversity

Voted the "best at home party" in Dallas-Fort Worth!

Zooniversity is an animal ed-venture! Zooniversity is a traveling wildlife education company that introduces children and adults to the fascinating world of exotic animals. Each year we deliver more than 600 zoology enrichment classes, stage shows and exhibits at schools, day cares, libraries, churhes, scouts, community and corporate events and private parties throughout Texas and surrounding states.

We have just the exotic animal education program you're looking for. We offer fun, hands-on learning for all kinds of events and for groups of all sizes. Curriculum is always age appropriate—ages 3 through adults. We even offer special themes for those hard-to-entertain preschoolers and special needs students.

Our Programs

In each Zooniversity program, a professional wildlife educator will introduce you to our living animal ambassadors. You'll learn where each animal comes from, what it eats, how it survives, and other fascinating (or just plain weird) animal facts. We'll also share the rescue stories and tragic histories of some of our program animals—because there is much more to learn about these beautiful creatures than just the textbook facts.

Zooniversity LLC is privately owned, fully insured, federally licensed by the USDA, and we hold all the required state, county and city permits for the animals we care for—ensuring you that you're hiring wildlife professionals. Go wild with Zooniversity!

Our Animals

Meet Zooniversity's collection of live animal ambassadors—the creepy, the cute and the cuddly! We have more than 50 species of exotic animals from which to choose -- you're sure to have more than one favorite. Most of the animals in our care came to us as injured wildlife, abandoned "pets" or rescues from deplorable captive conditions. Now, they all enjoy a safe and pampered existence at our Zooniversity facility. They all have spacious homes, nutritious zoological diets, a schedule of proper veterinary care and daily enrichment and socialization activities. We have no petting zoo or farm animals. For safety reasons, we do not offer primates or large cats.

Meet the Zookeeper

Zooniversity LLC was founded in 2001 by zookeeper and educator Allison Knox Blankenship. As a mother of two "animal crazy" children, she saw the need in North Texas for a professional wildlife education service that was fun and educational, yet affordable. Allison Blankenship has expert qualifications. She holds a BA in Biology from Bucknell University and a MA in Biomedical Instructional Design from the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School. She has spent more than 25 years as an award-winning instructional designer, trainer and wildlife educator.