NEW ORLEANS ( WGNO ) — The latest addition to the Audubon Zoo was unveiled on Tuesday, and they call it, “Jaguar Jungle River’s Edge.”
WGNO’s Kenny Lopez got to experience the wildlife encounter.
“As you go through Jaguar Jungle, you are hitting the rainforest, you are seeing the jaguars, ocelots, and then you come out and you’re hitting the trees with the vertical space for the spider monkeys and you’re looking up. As you come out of the rainforests you then hit the water’s edge and you see capybaras, tapirs and guanaco,” Liz Wilson, curator of Jaguar Jungle Swamp and Primates at Audubon Zoo said.
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The Jaguar Jungle at Audubon Zoo is expanding with its new River’s Edge, which features a newly constructed boardwalk, a jungle gym for spider monkeys, an interactive boat and exotic animals from the Mesoamerican region…