Zoo Guardians is the perfect way to celebrate National Zoo Lovers Day!

Have your kids always wanted to be a zoo keeper? Now they can build their own zoo thanks to the Smithsonian and Jump Start Games.

Each year millions of people visit zoos and learn about the many animals that live there on National Zoo Day, April 8th. Thanks to covid-19, we won’t be visiting our favorite zoos, The Bronx Zoo and Central Park Zoo for a while but we will be celebrating by playing Zoo Guardians. The. Zoo Guardians mobile game exposes users to 67 different species in a unique and entertaining fashion which is just the type of fun my family craves.

Interesting Zoo Facts:

• The Vienna Zoo is the oldest existing zoo. It was opened to the public in 1765.
• Central Park Zoo is the United States first zoo and opened in 1864 in New York City.
• Approximately 175 million people visit zoos each year.
• Approximately 4 million people visit the San Diego Zoo each year (stats as of 2018)
• Comprising 265 acres, the Bronx Zoo is the largest metropolitan zoo in the U.S.

Fun Things You Can Do with Zoo Guardians Mobile Game:

• Build and Customize Your Own Zoo
• Care for Your Animals
• Collect Fun Fact Cards & Level Up Your Zoo IQ
• Complete Quests
• Interact in Augmented Reality
• Save Animals & Fight Global Extinction
• Learn to help animals thrive from Smithsonian animal experts

Zoo Guardians Official Trailer

New users are jumping on board just in time because there is a new Oceans & Coast expansion for the game.

The Oceans & Coast expansion includes:

• New Biome – Oceans & Coasts
• New Animals – 7 aquatic animals and 2 Salamanders
• Swimming Animals – All animals from Oceans & Coasts and certain animals from Polar and Wetlands biomes can swim in deep water

About Zoo Guardians:

With more than half of kids aged 5 to 10 spending more time playing online games, Zoo Guardians offers educational entertainment and an escape to the wild! Simply by playing, kids learn about 67 different species! The animals come to life in this mobile game from JumpStart Games and the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Users build their own zoos, care for animals, complete quests and interact with realistic 3-D representations of wildlife via augmented reality. As players expand their zoos, they learn from Smithsonian animal experts and conservation scientists how to help animals thrive under human care and in their native habitats.

Zoo Guardians is free and available to download in the App Store and on Google Play.