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; our highly endangered whooping cranes, Amur leopards, and orangutans; our tiger; and our 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 the Audubon Zoo is the Louisiana swamp the exhibit 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 look at such as our lion pride, gorilla troop or feed a giraffe in the Zoo's African Savanna exhibit you could also splash around Monkey Hill right across from the African Painted Dogs. 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 “10Best” reader poll and ranked as one of the top things to do in New Orleans.