If you’re patient enough to stay in one place and observe the animals, you typically can witness some different behaviors on every visit… especially for any newborns (i.e. on our visit – the orangutan newborns) at the zoo. We have an annual pass… only $129 / 2-person and there’s so much to see still after only two(2) visits so far this season. There hasn’t been a crowd yet as we’ve visited on weekdays.

GREAT FOR BIRDERS –
Feed The Lorikeets for $5. Know, the lorikeets love rings, shiny things, earrings and bite at them.
So much variety of birds freely flying around in an aviary.

There’s an air-conditioned indoor viewing area to see the Manatees

(1) I like hiding under the Florida sun with an umbrella
(2) Camouflage yourself from the mosquitos with bug spray
(3) Camera with a nice zoom

Walking around mostly on flat walkways (unlike San Diego Zoo on 100 acres of hillside within Balboa Park). For a smaller zoo at 56 acres, you can’t compare it to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo (free in Washington, DC) at 163 acres but Tampa does alright!

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