Or maybe not. That brings the grand total to more than 2 million lights on display. The winter festival event has grown over the 10 years that ZooLights has been presented. One hundred new lighted displays and animal characters add to the effect. Light dolphins dive at the end of the entryway bridge.
Music plays as one approaches the gate.
Animal puppets adorn the arms of medieval peasants who greet visitors just inside. Blankets of light cover whole trees - big trees. The Phoenix Zoo was first to create and use mesh lights - lights attached to large, fine nets that cover trees like a hairnet. Up to 12,000 lights cover some trees in this way. Black lights, fiber optics and traditional light strings are seen throughout the zoo as well.