BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo

The Baton Rouge Zoo is found 15 minutes north of downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The zoo is claimed and worked by the Recreation and Park Commission of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana (BREC), and is home to more than 800 creatures from around the world. The Baton Rouge Zoo has been certify by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums starting around 1977-the primary zoo in Louisiana to be authorize. The zoo lost its certification on March 26, 2018 because of framework issues and creature get away.

The zoo is open day to day besides on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day.

The zoo’s main goal is to interface individuals with creatures and to assume a part is saving wild creatures in wild places.

A neighborhood WAFB TV character by the name of “Buckskin” Bill finished his well known kids’ program during the 1950s and 1960s by saying “Twirly doo Rouge needs a zoo.” He assisted rally the Baton With rouging local area into supporting the zoo not just in passing the millage political race to finance it yet additionally in running a penny drive that raised north of 600,000 pennies for the zoo’s initial two elephants (one of which was named Penny). The zoo originally opened to people in general on Easter Sunday, 1970.

Shows and Exhibits

• Otter Pond incorporates a reproduction of a fishing lodge, from which guests can see the otters underwater. Which highlights otter talks at 11:30 in the first part of the day and 3:00 in the early evening. Where you can hear from animal specialists and ask them inquiries.
• La Aquarium de Louisiana is a cooled working close the rear of the zoo. Including local fish, creatures of land and water, reptiles and 8-legged creature from around Louisiana. For certain creatures just from neighborhood locales and extraordinary.
• A-list Realm of the Tiger
• Flamingo Cove
• Monsters of the Islands
• Safari Playground