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Encounters

Animals

• African Lion
• African Painted Dog
• African Spurred Tortoise
• Amazon Milk Frog
• American Alligator
• Amur Leopard
• Ankole Cattle
• Asian Elephant
• Attwater’s Prairie Chicken
• Baird’s Tapir
• Bald Eagle
• Black Bear
• Black Mamba
• Black-and-Gold Howler Monkey
• Blue Duiker
• Blue-Billed Curassow
• Blue-Throated Macaw
• Bobwhite Quail
• Bonnethead Shark
• California Sea Lion
• Capybara
• Cheetah
• Chilean Flamingo
• Chimpanzee
• Clouded Leopard
• Common Clownfish
• Cougar
• Cownose Ray
• Domestic Goat
• Eastern Bongo
• Fossa
• Galápagos Tortoise
• Giant Anteater
• Giant River Otter
• Golden Lion Tamarin
• Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin
• Gorilla
• Grant’s Zebra
• Green Anaconda
• Grey Crowned Crane
• Hamerkop
• Houston Toad
• Humboldt Penguin
• Jaguar
• King Cobra
• Komodo Dragon
• Malayan Tiger
• Malaysian Painted River Terrapin
• Masai Giraffe
• Meerkat
• North American River Otter
• Northern White-Cheeked Gibbon
• Ocelot
• Okapi
• Orangutan
• Ostrich
• Panamanian Golden Frog
• Pangolin
• Patas Monkey
• Red Panda
• Red River Hog
• Reticulated Python
• Ring-tailed Lemur
• Roseate Spoonbill
• Sea Turtle
• Sebas’s Short-Tailed Bat
• Siamang
• Songbird
• Southern White Rhinoceros
• St. Vincent Amazon Parrot
• Vulture
• Wattled Curassow
• White-faced Saki Monkey
• Whooping Cranes

Upcoming Events

• TXU Energy presents Mythical Realms

  March 6 - September 7

• Zoo Bloom

  March 27 - May 3

• All You Can Zoo

  Friday, March 27, 5:00-10:00 p.m.

• April Member Morning

  Saturday, April 4, 8:00-9:00 a.m.

• 2026 Walk for the Wild 5k

  Sunday, April 12, 2026, 7:00-10:00 a.m.

• Feast with the Beasts

  Friday, April 17, 6:30-10:00 p.m.

• Zoolates: Pilates at the Zoo

  April 18 at 7:45 a.m.

• May Member Morning

  Saturday, May 2, 8:00-9:00 a.m.

• Zoolates: Pilates at the Zoo

  Saturday, June 20 at 7:45 a.m.

• Zoolates: Pilates at the Zoo

  Saturday, August 15 at 7:45 a.m.