Lowry Park Zoo

Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo, which is about 85 miles southwest of Orlando, provides you and your family with an exciting opportunity to see animals from all over the world in their natural habitats.

Animal exhibits include Safari Africa and Ituri Forest where you can see cheetahs, elephants, giraffes and zebras close up. Guests visiting Lowry Park Zoo's Safari Africa exhibit can feed giraffes and white rhinos and take camel rides.

Tigers, leopards, pythons and cranes make their home in the Asian Gardens and Sulawesi Aviary.

Primate World houses chimpanzees, orangutans, squirrel monkeys, lemurs and tamarins.

There are New Guinea singling dogs, kookaburras, llamas, flying foxes and a koala at family-oriented Wallaroo Station. At the Wallaroo Petting Zoo, your children can feed and pet goats and take llama and pony rides. They can feed budgies in the Bushland Budgies aviary at Wallaroo Station.

If you want to find out more about animals that are native to Florida, you can visit the Florida Boardwalk - home to alligators, snapping turtles, panthers and flamingos, or you can go the Florida Manatee &

Aquatic Center, where you can see rattlesnakes, pythons, moray eels and poison arrow frogs, as well as manatees.

Guests who are fond of birds can see the Free Flight Aviaries or watch the "Spirits of the Sky" show at the Birds of Prey exhibit.

The River Odyssey Ecotour takes visitors on a boat ride along the Hillsbrough River, where they will be to see manatees, river turtles, herons and other animals living in the wild.

Lowry Park Zoo also has a rollercoaster, a water flume and other rides.