They are all on exhibit this summer. Virtual tour with panoramas and pictures of the many animals of the zoo. New at the Zoo 1. The new ZooTrain was designed like a late 1800s steam engine, sporting a green and brown safari theme. Jessie and Jullian, babirusa piglets, are among the most primitive and endangered type of pigs in the world.
Children can select from a list of animals for a coloring book page.
Children may then mail in their submissions to the Louisville Zoo for the coloring contest. New at the Zoo 1. The animal family blossomed at the zoo last year with the births of several endangered species including the twin golden lion tamarins and a Mishmi takin. A litter of seven African wild dogs, a blue duiker, a female Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphin, a male okapi, a Greater kudu, a male giant anteater, and a Rothschild's giraffe were also added to growing zoo. For the first time the zoon's wreathed hornbill had a successful hatching.