Little Rock Zoo

The Little Rock Arkansas Zoo is an old zoo where the planners used progressive thinking in planning the exhibits. The one building marker is in the aviary and it stated the building was constructed in the 1934 to 1936 period by the Federal Relief Agency. Most of the exhibits were quite large allowing for the viewing of the animals from many different vantage points. The exhibits contained a great deal of behavioral enrichment for the animals. Climbing objects, chewing items and objects to push around were available to the animals. The future African Veldt exhibit is under construction. Other exhibits are being renovated. Overall we liked the zoo very much. The zoo is not large just 33 acres with just over 700 animals. Speaking of the aviary, it was constructed as a walkabout where the people and the birds are in the same space. According to the zoo brochure it was started in 1926 with a circus bear and timber wolf.