ROYAL OAK, Mich., October 6, 2010 – The Detroit Zoo is offering a $2 discount on all full-price admissions on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, in recognition of Columbus Day.  Reduced admission prices are $9 for adults 15 to 61, $7 for senior citizens 62 and older, and $5 for children ages 2 to 14; children under 2 are free.  

The discount is available only with a printable coupon, which can be found on the Zoo’s Web site.  To download the $2-off admission coupon, visit www.detroitzoo.org and click on the Columbus Day banner.

Visitors can celebrate the discoverer of the New World by discovering what’s new at the Detroit Zoo.  Kivuli, a one-year-old giraffe that arrived in June, is elevating the excitement in the African Grasslands.  Two rockhopper penguin chicks that hatched in May and June are rocking the Penguinarium.  A female red panda that was born in June has visitors seeing red in her habitat across from the tigers.  And a female pudu, the world’s smallest species of deer, was born in August and is worth fawning over.