Habitats | Cincinnati Zoo

Africa

Rüppell’s Griffon Vulture

Hippopotamus

little boy looking at african penguin swimming

African Penguin Point

Yellow-billed duck

White-breasted cormorant

African penguin

Bald Eagle Habitat

Bald Eagle

Cat Canyon

Cheetah Encounter

Serval

Red River Hog

Dragons!

Eagle Free Flight Aviary

Steller’s Sea Eagle

Education Programs

Screaming Hairy Armadillo

Elephant Reserve

Asian elephant

Elephant Trek

Elephant Trek, which will be five times the size of the Zoo’s current elephant habitat, is slated to open in 2024 and will eventually be home to a multi-generational herd of 8-10 Asian elephants. Elements built into Elephant Trek, including stormwater tanks that will hold 1 million gallons of water, will actually help the Zoo reduce expenses and achieve its goal to be Net Zero! It also has plans to convert elephant poop, and the rest of the Zoo’s organic waste, to a soil supplement that will help it grow the food that the elephants eat!

Free Flight Aviary

White Ibis

Red-legged seriema

Galapagos Tortoise Yard

Galapagos Tortoise

Gibbon Island

Gibbons are excellently adapted to life in the rainforest canopy. For example, these lesser apes are built for swinging among the trees with long arms and fingers. Gibbons are famous for their loud musical calls, which can carry over long distances to communicate through the dense foliage. Visitors to Gibbon Islands have the first-hand opportunity to see their aerial acrobatics and hear their melodic songs. Visitors walk across a wooden bridge as they gaze up at the gibbons swinging on giant jungle gyms built on lushly landscaped islands.

Buff-cheeked gibbon

Siamang

Gorilla World

Built in 1978, Gorilla World was one of the first large naturalistic primate habitats in the world. Upon entering the outdoor habitat space, the visitor is immersed in a simulated African jungle. Several open viewing areas provide the chance to see many individuals of the Zoo’s large troop from various angles. The indoor habit, which opened in 2017, allows visitors to see gorillas year-round! The floor-to-ceiling viewing glass will help the Zoo continue to inspire gorilla conservation by getting visitors close enough to care as they watch and engage with the Zoo’s gorillas.

Western Lowland Gorilla

Black and White Colobus Monkey

Jungle Trails

Garnett’s Galago (Greater Bushbaby)

Potto

Coquerel’s Sifaka

Cape Barren Goose

Burmese Brown mountain tortoise

Angolan Colobus Monkey

Sumatran Orangutan

Ruddy Shelduck

Henkel’s Leaf-Tailed Gecko

Lemur Lookout

Ring-tailed Lemur

manhattan swimshady and alby manatees looking at camera

Night Hunters

Fennec Fox

Giant Fruit Bat (Indian Flying Fox)

Southern Brazilian Ocelot

Sand Cat

Ringtail

North America

Otto M. Budig Manatee Springs

P&G Discovery Forest

The P&G Discovery Forest habitat is designed to engage visitors in a multi-sensory exploration of the world of plants and their importance. The setting is a tropical Latin American rainforest, incorporating interpretive elements from throughout Central and South America and even into Mexico. (Some plants from other tropical areas in the world are also featured for their significance to the theme of why plants are important.) Several neo-tropical animals are also displayed in the habitat to emphasize the relationship between plants and wildlife.

Two-toed Sloth

Red Panda

Rhino Reserve

Roo Valley

At the Australian-themed Roo Valley, beneath a lush canopy of trees, Zoo guests experience and encounter two native Australian species like never before. In the 15,000-square-foot Kangaroo Walkabout, guests roam among the ‘roos as they hop about, play, and graze. The Cincinnati Zoo is home to North America’s largest colony of little blue penguins, and their numbers are increasingly threatened in the wild. Their habitat includes more rocky surfaces and incorporates technology to optimize swimming time, which is beneficial for penguin health.

Freckled Duck

Little Blue Penguin

Kangaroo

Spaulding Children’s Zoo

Swan Lake

Wood Duck

Trumpeter Swan

Red-crowned Crane

ori milky eagle owl flying towards keeper keri ann's arm

Wings of Wonder

Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo

Verreaux’s Eagle Owl

Wolf Woods

Hike through the woods where Mexican wolves and river otters play. Wolf Woods highlights conservation efforts that are restoring North American habitats and the species that inhabit them. The first section along the Wolf Woods trail focuses on the conservation stories of the Ohio woodlands and its species, highlighting the North American river otter. The second section focuses on the conservation story of the Mexican gray wolf native to the southwestern United States. Here, a rustic, historical trapper’s cabin has been converted into a Mexican wolf field research station.

Grey Fox

North American River Otter

Mexican Wolf

Barred Owl