Visit the Zoo

• Giraffe Chat: 10:30 a.m. (Daily)
• Otter Chat: at the Otter Pond 11:00 a.m. & 3:00 p.m. (Daily)
• Black Rhino Chat: 2:30 p.m. (Daily)
• Running of the Ducks: at Kids Zoo - One hour before Zoo grounds close (Daily)

Single admission passes and memberships are available for purchase. These passes make great gifts to include in birthday cards, thank you notes and stocking stuffers. To purchase, please call (225) 775-3877 or visit the link below.

• Please keep our animals healthy and do not feed them. All animals are on carefully controlled, nutritionally balanced diets, and public feeding undermines our efforts to keep them healthy.
• Pets, bicycles, rollerblades, skateboards, and skates are prohibited.
• Alcoholic beverages are prohibited.
• Smoking is prohibited.
• Vaping is prohibited.
• Please protect Zoo plants by not picking the flowers or leaves.
• A parent or adult chaperone must accompany children at all times.

We welcome guests with disabilities who choose to bring their trained service animal, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), into the Zoo and Gardens. The care and supervision of a service animal is solely the responsibility of his or her owner. Service animals must remain properly leashed at all times. Dogs whose sole function is to provide comfort or emotional support or therapy dogs that provide a service to others do not qualify as “service animals” under the ADA. Service animals are working animals, not pets. Pets are not allowed on Zoo grounds.

Service animals may only be excluded from the Zoo when that animal’s behavior poses a direct threat to the health or safety of others. Examples are vicious behavior towards other guests, a dog that is out of control and the handler cannot or does not regain control, or if the dog is not housebroken.