“Lions, and Tigers, and Bears! Oh, My!”

Tiger & Lion

And our Knoxville Zoo has got em all plus over 200 other species of critters.

Red Pandas, the Knoxville Zoo is world known for their Panda breeding facility.

These Red Pandas looks more like a red racoon than their cousins, the teddy bear looking Pandas from China and some other Asian countries.

Starting in 1948 with a lone alligator named Al, the Knoxville Zoo has evolved into a world class facility the citizens of Knoxville can truly be proud of.

Currently the Zoo is home to 867 animals unless there were some new ones born overnight.

The Zoo has just embarked on a 12 million dollar fund raising campaign to build or improve several exhibits and make it even better.

knoxville tennessee zoo black bears

Black Bears are native to the nearby Great Smoky Mountains National Park

4.5 million dollars of the 12 million is earmarked for a state of the art, Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Center targeted to open in 2011.

The whole project will allow the Zoo to add an additional 200 animals in additional to renovating several aging exhibits such as the big cats and wild dogs areas.

Ever on the cutting edge, there’s even a blogging Parrot named Einstein. The Knoxville Zoo’s official “spokesbird”, Einstein is a 20 year old (this year) African Grey who has a vocabulary of over 15 words and puts on a great show for visiting schoolchildren and others.
Open 364 days a year (closed only on Christmas Day) our Knoxville Zoo is a fascinating and state of the art facility to be proud of. Take the kids (or not) ;-) for a day of fun at the Zoo.

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