Ice cream in hot demand at 2015 Zoofari at Fresno Chaffee Zoo

All-you-can eat ice cream, zoo animals — what more could a kid (or an ice cream-loving grown-up) want?

Thousands gathered at Fresno Chaffee Zoo on Saturday for the Producers Dairy Ice Cream Zoofari fundraiser, sampling many flavors of ice cream, sherbets, frozen yogurt and sundaes with zoo-centric names such as Rocky Toad, Mint Monkeys ‘n Cream and Cockatoo Cookie Dough.

Fresno Chaffee Zoo marketing manager Ciara Norton said the fundraising event, a summer tradition for more than 20 years, was a sell-out, with 3,500 tickets sold in advance.

This story was originally published August 8, 2015 at 8:16 PM with the headline "Ice cream in hot demand at 2015 Zoofari at Fresno Chaffee Zoo."