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 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 Tennity 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.