 Wildlife
Hospital
& Garden
The Tennity Wildlife Hospital & Conservation Center has been
open since January 26, 2002. While this state-of-the-art facility
was conceived and constructed to bring the highest quality of care
to The Living Desert's animal collection, it was also designed with
The Living Desert's human visitors in mind.
On your next visit to The Living Desert you can go on a docent-led
tour of this extraordinary new facility and discover for yourself
the many unique and distinctive elements that were included in the
Hospital design.
Observe medical procedures and examinations taking place in the
Small & Large Animal Treatment Rooms. Learn more about what
is required to care for The Living Desert's extensive animal collection.
Look through the windows of the Special Care Unit, a series of
five totally enclosed and temperature controlled "rooms"
where animals requiring particularized attention are housed. Investigate
the various interactive exhibits that provide fascinating and educational
perspectives on the physiology and veterinary care of our many animals.
 Our
new McDonald Butterfly Garden creates a colorful and engaging entrance
to the Tennity Wildlife Hospital & Conservation Center. On view
here are a host of plants and flowers that attract butterflies and
sustain their lifecycle. You'll find mesquite trees and feather
bushes, desert willows and chaste trees, fairy dusters and sweet
smelling sages, blankets of verbena and banks of lantana, plus dozens
of wildflower species.
The Wildlife Hospital not only provides the ultimate in veterinary
care for our animal collection as it exists today, but its forward-looking
design also ensures that our growing facility will enjoy first-rate
medical care for many years to come.
  
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