The Houston Zoo is home to over 6,000 animal residents, with more than 600 different species. These are just a few of the many animals we care for here and help save in the wild. Come out to the Zoo to see them all!
African Painted Dog
African Spur Thighed Tortoise
American Alligator
Green Anaconda
Ankole Cattle
Giant Anteater
Bald Eagle
Sebas’s Short-Tailed Bat
Black Bear
Blue Duiker
Eastern Bongo
Bonnethead Shark
Capybara
Cheetah
Chimpanzee
Common Clownfish
Cougar
Cownose Ray
Blue-Billed Curassow
Wattled Curassow
Domestic Goat
Asian Elephant
Chilean Flamingo
Fossa
Amazon Milk Frog
Panamanian Golden Frog
Galápagos Tortoise
Giant River Otter
Northern White-Cheeked Gibbon
Masai Giraffe
Houston Toad
Black-and-Gold Howler Monkey
Humboldt Penguin
Jaguar
King Cobra
Komodo Dragon
Ring-tailed Lemur
Clouded Leopard
African Lion
Blue-Throated Macaw
Black Mamba
Meerkat
Moon Jellyfish
Naked Mole Rat
Ocelot
Okapi
Orangutan
Ostrich
Asian Small-Clawed Otter
North American River Otter
Malaysian Painted River Terrapin
Patas Monkey
Red-Bellied Piranha
Reticulated Python
Red Panda
Red River Hog
Southern White Rhinoceros
White-faced Saki Monkey
California Sea Lion
Sea Turtle
Siamang
Coquerel’s Sifaka
St. Vincent Amazon Parrot
Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin
Golden Lion Tamarin
Baird’s Tapir
Malayan Tiger
Vulture
Gorilla
Whooping Cranes
