This is a great place to bring your kids to teach them about the animal world. They have quite a variety of venomous and nonvenomous snakes along with other reptiles and animals. Your kids will love the interactive demonstrations with various animals and reptiles at the zoo. To take in everything and get involved wit the demonstrations and the petting zoo you will need between 2 and 3 hours. It is well worth your time.

We had an amazing time! Stayed from 10 until 2:30pm and I had to pull my 8 year old away. She was able to feed Bison, Tortoises, all animals in the petting zoo. We stood about 2 feet from the lions getting fed, and watched several other animals get fed. Several 15 minute talks that not only interested the kids, but adults, as well. Brought out a gator, boa, and other animals to show and let the kids pet. This was, by far, better than the SA zoo because the kids were able to interact with the animals all day.

Bigger than I thought, it was clean, friendly staff. My 3 year old and I really enjoyed all the animals. Definitely wish the wolves had a large pool or something to cool them down in this Texas heat. But all around great day and experience. We will be going back.

This place is far more amazing than the outside suggests and I'm only saying this because we bypassed it for four years on I-35 before finally walking in. Whatever you do, don't make our mistake - go visit now. I took my youngest to feed the capybaras as a gift for her 11th birthday. She absolutely loved it! They were adorable and she was able to feed them the lettuce leaves the zoo provided and pet them. They were all ours for 15 minutes. I have to note that this place is only 1 hr from Austin and it has openings for capybara feedings EVERY DAY. Contrast this to the Austin Zoo, where the weekday capybara feedings are sold out till July and if you want it on the weekend, it's going to be in August or September. They have a wide range of other animals, some of which I hadn't seen anywhere else, e.g. cavies. You don't have to spend time looking at the reptiles, if you are not so inclined. There's plenty of other fauna to entertain you. The petting zoo is very large and has miniature goats, zebu, deer, lama, chickens, and more. You can get a cup of feed for $4 and, if you feel like, a cup of insects for the chickens. The camels are also very friendly and fun. Overall, an excellent time even for my tween, who has recently been getting pickier and pickier about where she wants to go and what she wants to do.

We had a great time. We had not been in several years. There have been so many improvements made throughout entire facility. The snake enclosures were totally different. We had interactions with capybaras, lemur, and camels. Can't recommend the interactions enough. The animals were just so much fun to feed etc. The petting zoo area is great with goats, a llama, and a small cow too.