Louisville Zoo

The Louisville Zoo is one of the most well developed zoos in the country. One of the best qualities of this zoo is it's ability to creat new styles and ways of exhibiting animals. The zoo has been turning heads in the zoological society.

Louisville has created a few styles that now are being based on their innonvations. The biggest one is it's multi-species rotational exhibit. This style is a combination of exhibits interlocked between eachother and during the day, keepers will switch animals around, so maybe you saw a tiger in one, a tapir in another and siamangs(gibbons) in the other. But you come back a few hours later and you will see babirusa, an orangutan, and a tiger. This allows the animals to constantly have something new to do. Another idea is the migrating exhibit for their gorillas. In the wild gorillas migrate dayly but in captivity they are left to in one exhibit all day. This exhibit allows the gorillas to follow a more natural pattern of life.

The Louisville Zoo has many different areas of the zoo that will entertain guest all-day. The Islands is one of the more popular areas, which is home to the rotational exhibit as well as cranes, herpatarium, aviary, and etc. Gorilla Forest is aard-winning for having the 2003 AZA best exhibit, which is home to gorillas and pygmy hippos. The zoo also has Australia(lorikeets, wallabies, and wallaroos), Africa (rhino, lion, elephant, giraffe, crane, antelope) somewhat of an outdated area, a South America (alpaca, rhea(similar to emu), maned wolf).

The Zoo is in the process of develpoing the newest region knon as Glacier Run. The first couple of areas have already opened with the Kid's ater playground and Tiger Tudra, home to the zoos Amur tiger. The area under construction is the main area, which is set-up as an old town that has been merged with the wild and the animals are taking over. When done this area will show case sea eagles, sea lion, sea otters, Artci fox, and of course the Polar Bear.