Description: Named after the famed naturalist John James Audubon, who lived in New Orleans starting in 1821, the Audubon Zoo is part of the Audubon Nature Institute, which also operates the Aquarium of the Americas. The Zoo is mostly outdoors, housing many species native to the area: black bears, raccoons, otters, nutria, cottomouth, copperhead, North American Alligators and more, among the 2,000 animals that occupy the zoo’s 58 acres. Other popular denizens include the gorillas and orangutans, and the beastly reptiles in the Reptile Encounter exhibit, where you can come face to beady-eyed-face with Komodo dragons, bearded lizards, gila monsters, green anacondas, reticulated pythons, gaboon vipers, rattlesnakes and more.
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