The zoo cares for both wild and domestic animals, including ring-tailed lemurs, meerkats, camels, giant anteaters and penguins.

Other residents include servals, African crested porcupines, Rodrigues fruit bats, Asian small-clawed otters, red pandas, Humboldt penguins, binturongs, Chilean flamingos, fennec foxes, Arabian rock hyraxes, two Bactrian camels named Lofty and Roxy, Two Giant Anteaters.

The 'Zoolympics challenge' lets children compare their abilities (to drag, hang on, jump, shout, run, and hold their breath) against a variety of animals, and record them in a booklet given free at the entrance.

There are many interactive sections of the zoo including 'Mokomo's Jungle Rock' which opened in 2003 and features animatronic animals (mandrill, lemur, vulture, crocodile, spider and snake) who sing about the food chain in the style of The Lion Sleeps Tonight.

[6] In 2007, Drusillas Park introduced a permanent Thomas & Friends train ride after securing a long-term deal with HIT Entertainment.

The passenger train ran to and from Tidmouth Hault (now Mungo's Central Station) for 10 years, from Saturday 31 March 2007 until Sunday 8 January 2017, when the Thomas contract expired without being renewed.

[9] To complement the carousel, the area and rides from the closed Hello Kitty Secret Garden were reworked into a new attraction called The Rainforest Adventure, which opened May 2022.

[10] These consist of the 'Toucan twister', 'Amazon Skyrise' and the 'Jungle Jeeps' Rated top attraction in Southern England in The Daily Telegraph's '20 Great Family Days Out' (May 2014)[citation needed] Shortlisted as 'The Best Theme Park Half-term Holidays' by The Times (May 2014)[11] Winner of the 2014 Visitor Attraction of the Year at the Sussex Life Food, Drink and Hospitality Awards.