zoolife

Zoolife is a live-streaming wildlife platform that describes itself as the world's first online zoo. It places 24/7 cameras in habitats at accredited zoos, sanctuaries and rehabilitation centers and lets viewers pan and zoom the cameras from their own device, capture photos and clips, and share them. Alongside the streams, the platform runs daily keeper talks, feeding times and interactive Q&A sessions with animal experts, plus species and family information cards and community chat.

The catalogue spans more than 100 species, including big cats and other predators, bears and arboreal mammals, birds, aquatic and coastal species, primates and large herbivores, and smaller animals and invertebrates. Partner facilities named in public materials include the Toronto Zoo — where Zoolife also carries exclusive broadcasts from the Wildlife Health Centre showing veterinary care — Orana Wildlife Park, and the Endangered Wolf Center, whose maned wolf and swift fox habitats are streamed and whose members receive Zoolife access as a membership perk.

Zoolife also sells a dedicated education product, Zoolife for Educators, combining live cameras, video content, live and privately booked expert sessions, and standards-aligned lesson plans, activities and worksheets currently covering US and Canadian curricula for grades 1-5, shareable to students via Google Classroom or direct links without student accounts.

Business model

Consumer and classroom subscriptions to an interactive live-streaming wildlife platform, with content sourced from partner zoos, sanctuaries and rehabilitation centers; a share of proceeds is passed back to those partners to fund animal care and conservation.

Subscription plans plus one-off access products: an Explorer Plan for general all-access viewing, an Educator Plan adding teaching tools, private and group expert talks and an ad-free experience, single-habitat 24-hour day passes, all-access guided virtual field trips, and habitat sponsorships where 100% of proceeds go to the care staff behind the camera. Partner institutions such as the Endangered Wolf Center bundle access with their memberships, and 50% of the membership fee is stated to fund animal care and conservation, allocated by species watch time.

Traction

Public materials cite more than 100 species and 1,000+ animals across 50+ live cameras, a library of 180,000+ animal videos and 3,000+ five-star reviews, along with named streaming partnerships with the Toronto Zoo, Orana Wildlife Park and the Endangered Wolf Center.

Latest developments

Zoolife has expanded into classroom use with Zoolife for Educators, adding standards-aligned lesson plans, activities and worksheets for grades 1-5, private and group live expert talks, Google Classroom sharing and district pilot programs, and says more curriculum standards are in development.