Located in historic Uptown New Orleans Audubon Zoo cares for animals from around the globe, engaging educational programs, and hands-on animal encounters. Unique natural habitats such as the award-winning Louisiana Swamp and Jaguar Jungle showcase the relationship between people and nature. Don’t miss the daily animal presentations, chats and feeds; the highly endangered whooping cranes, Amur leopards, and orangutans; tiger; and the mysterious white alligators.
Audubon Zoo is filled with historic buildings, sculptures and notable architecture. It is around every turn enhancing your visit and seamlessly flowing around the landscape. The journey to Asia consists of the beautiful and exotic animals like Asian elephants, and the orangutans.
One of the most popular exhibits in Audubon Zoo is the Louisiana swamp exhibit which offers local visitors an opportunity to learn about their own heritage and introduces out-of-town visitors to a fascinating new world.
There is so much more to see such as the lion pride, Monkey Hill, and the African painted dogs in the Zoo’s African Savanna exhibit. Audubon Zoo is consistently one of the country’s top-ranked zoos, voted as one of the top ten zoos in the country in the USA Today “10 Best” reader poll and ranked as one of the top things to do in New Orleans.
Continuous Loop Tour so YOU can decide what time your tour begins and ends. Tour loop is 1 hour 30 minutes.