Topic - Audubon Zoo

The Audubon Zoo is a zoo located in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is part of the Audubon Nature Institute which also manages the Aquarium of the Americas. The zoo covers and is home to 2,000 animals. It is located in a section of Audubon Park in Uptown New Orleans, on the Mississippi River side of Magazine Street. The zoo and park are named in honor of artist and naturalist John James Audubon who lived in New Orleans starting in 1821. - Source: Wikipedia

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In this photo provided by the Audubon Nature Institute, a Sumatran orangutan named Reese, holds her baby after giving birth Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021, at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans. It is the second Sumatran orangutan born in two years at the zoo. Veterinarians haven’t yet been able to weigh, measure and determine the sex of the baby born early Sunday to 12-year-old Reese, Audubon Zoo spokeswoman Annie Kinler Matherne said Monday, March 1. (Jonathan Vogel/Audubon Nature Institute via AP)

2nd endangered orangutan baby in 2 years at New Orleans zoo

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FILE - In this photo provided by the Audubon Nature Institute, Tumani, a critically endangered western lowland gorilla holds her newborn at an enclosure at the Audubon Zoo, following its birth on Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, in New Orleans. Less than a week after celebrating the birth of the infant gorilla, the zoo in New Orleans is mourning its death. Audubon Zoo officials say the baby born Friday died on Wednesday, Sept. 9. (Jonathan Vogel/Audubon Nature Institute via AP, File)

6-day-old endangered gorilla baby dies at New Orleans zoo

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In this photo provided by the Audubon Nature Institute, Tumani, a critically endangered western lowland gorilla holds her newborn at an enclosure at the Audubon Zoo, following its birth on Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, in New Orleans. It's Audubon's first gorilla birth in nearly 25 years and the first offspring for the 13-year-old gorilla. (Jonathan Vogel/Audubon Nature Institute via AP)

Tiny critically endangered gorilla baby born in New Orleans

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New Orleans zoo celebrates births of 2 lion cubs

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FILE - In a Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014 file photo, Joe Forys, curator of large mammals at the Audubon Zoo, looks at birthday cake smeared on the mouth of Panya the elephant, who ate the cake and melons as part of the Audubon Zoo's celebration of her 50th birthday in New Orleans. The Audubon Zoo says the 55-year-old female named Panya was euthanized Thursday, March 7, 2019 because irreversible kidney disease was hurting her quality of life. She was an endangered Asian elephant, and had lived at the zoo for 39 years. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

New Orleans’ oldest elephant dies, age 55

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Otter pups, babirusa piglets at New Orleans zoo

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