Business Description
Alabama's Must-See Attraction
Approximately 800 animals of 200 species call the 122-acre Birmingham Zoo home, including elephants, lions, orangutans, crowned cranes, pythons and endangered species from six continents.
Mission:
Inspiring passion for the natural world through emphasizing conservation, education, scientific study and recreation in all aspects of the Birmingham Zoo's exhibits, programs, facilities and activities.
Vision:
To be a leading zoological and botanical conservation, education and scientific study resource within the U.S. and the family attraction of choice throughout the entire region.
Hours:
Monday – Sunday: 9am to 5pm
Christmas Eve hours: 9am to 1pm
Closed Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day
Pricing:
Adults – $14*
Children 2 – 12 years old – $9*
Senior Citizens 65 years+ – $9*
*Plus tax
Admission is half-price every Tuesday.
Please note: Half-price special applies only to individual admission. It does not apply to Group rates (see website for more information about Group rates).
Members receive free admission every day! www.birminghamzoo.com/membership/
The Birmingham Zoo’s Facebook Comment Policy:
The Birmingham Zoo’s Facebook page is intended to serve as a public forum to inspire passion for the natural world. This is an online community for people to connect with the Zoo and its followers. In order to maintain a respectful, welcoming and informative atmosphere, the Zoo has created guidelines for posting comments and participating in discussions. This is a moderated forum, which may result in the removal of comments which are considered disrespectful, offensive, irrelevant or inappropriate.
Please follow these common courtesies when commenting:
• Please be polite and respectful.
• Comments should be kept clean and family-friendly.
• Comments containing personal attacks of any kind will be removed.
• Please keep comments on topic for the discussion. The Zoo welcomes all points of view and encourages active participation in Facebook discussions, but all comments must be relevant to the topic at hand.
• Spam comments will be removed. This includes, but is not limited to, comments intended to sell or promote products or services.
• Please do not submit anything you do not wish to be broadcast to the general public, as the content of all comments is immediately released into a public domain.
The Zoo reserves the right to delete any comment that violates this policy. Repeated violations of the Zoo’s comment policy may cause the author to be blocked from the Zoo’s Facebook page.
If you have an issue or question that goes beyond the scope of a Facebook post, please send an email to ahaney@birminghamzoo.com.
Address & Contact
- Street:
- 2630 Cahaba Road
- Postcode:
- 35223
- City:
- Birmingham
- State:
- Alabama
- Zip:
- 35223
- Phone:
- 205.879.0409
- Website:
- www.birminghamzoo.com www.twitter.com/BirminghamZoo
- Category:
- Local Business
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