Wild Explorer VR experience now open at Buffalo Zoo
Prepare to be transported across continents and through time with the Buffalo Zoo’s new Wild Explorer VR experience!
Soar above Africa’s Great Migration, meet gorillas deep in the jungle or come face-to-face with mighty dinosaurs through breathtaking virtual reality and motion seats.
This brand new experience is now open for all Zoo visitors and is located in the lobby area of M&T Bank Rainforest Falls!
Learn more about each of the three awe-inspiring VR experiences below:
The Great Migration
Join Emmy award-winning documentary filmmakers as they take you on an incredible journey through Africa’s Great Migration.
Each year, millions of wildebeests, zebras, and antelopes traverse East Africa’s wide open grasslands in a continuous, circular trek in search of fresh grazing lands and water, pausing only for a few months when females are giving birth. Along the way, hundreds of thousands of the herd fall prey to stalking predators, including lions, crocodiles, cheetahs, and hyenas.
Witness how these millions of free-roaming animals make their way through the peaks and perils of Africa’s savannah terrain, from the Maasai Mara river in Kenya to the majestic landscape of Tanzania’s Serengeti, in search for a better life across the animal kingdom.
Gorilla Trek
Travel to the extinct volcanoes of Rwanda in central Africa. Trek with world-renowned primatologist Dr. Tara Stoinski, CEO of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, up 10,000 feet to visit with a remarkable family of mountain gorillas.
Witness for the first time in 3D virtual reality the unique family dynamics that pit one silverback mountain gorilla against another for control of the gorilla family. There are just over one thousand mountain gorillas left in the world and it is vitally important to study the behavior of these amazing animals so that we can help save them from extinction.
Dinosaur Evolution
Step back 66 million years and journey through the final chapter of the age of dinosaurs in Dinosaur Evolution, a thrilling immersive experience that brings the Cretaceous world to life.
Witness feathered raptors on the hunt, armored giants defending their turf, and the mighty T. rex at the top of the food chain. But even these perfectly evolved creatures couldn’t escape Earth’s most devastating extinction event.
Stunning visuals and cutting-edge science reveal how evolution shaped the dinosaurs—and how birds, their modern-day descendants, continue their legacy. It’s a prehistoric adventure that will inspire the next generation of paleontologists and conservationists alike.
