Audubon Zoo
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Audubon Zoo is an American zoo located in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is part of the Audubon Nature Institute which also manages Audubon Aquarium, Audubon Louisiana Nature Center, Freeport-McMoran Spec
Main Entrance
Odenheimer Sea Lion Pool, 1924
WPA work on Monkey Island, 1936
Entrance to zoo parking on Magazine Street
John James Audubon
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John James Audubon was a French-American artist, entrepreneur, naturalist, explorer, and ornithologist. His combined interests in painting and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictori
Audubon Zoo
…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. The site of the zoo has housed animal exhibits since the World Cotton Centennial 1884 Exhibition World's…
Portrait by John Syme, 1826
La Gerbetière, mansion owned by Audubon's father in Couëron, where young Audubon was raised
Plate 41 of The Birds of America by Audubon, depicting ruffed grouse
John James Audubon, Long Haired Squirrel, c. 1841.