Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo Full Tour - Bridgeport, Connecticut

Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo, located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, is the only AZA-accredited zoo in the state of Connecticut. It includes one of the few carousels in the state.
Exhibits
Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo is divided into nine major exhibits:
Rainforest Building- An indoor building featuring several animals from tropical South America,
Predators- A small row of enclosures featuring Amur tigers, and Amur leopards which first arrived in 2013. The zoo plans to build a larger tiger enclosure with glass-window viewing.
Alligator Alley- A small trail featuring various animals from the Southeastern United States, including grey fox, North American river otter, bald eagle, sandhill crane, and American alligator. The exhibit also features a small walk-through aviary home to various small birds and turtles.
Hoofstock Trail- A long trail which loops around the zoo from Pampas Plains to Predators. The exhibit features animals native to the Great Plains such as plains bison, pronghorn, white-tailed deer, black-tailed prairie dog, turkey vulture, and barred owl.
New England Farmyard- Designed as a small rural farm, the exhibit features a collection of farm animals, mainly of breeds which originated in New England, as well as some wild species that might be found in rural Connecticut.
W.O.L.F- A small exhibit near the zoo's entrance which features Mexican wolves and a red wolf. The zoo was home to two timber wolves. They were replaced by the Mexican wolves. The exhibit is designed to look like a trapper's cabin and discusses the work the zoo does with these highly endangered species.
Native Reptile House- A small wooden building near the entrance of the New England Farmyard, the exhibit features various species of reptiles and amphibians native to Connecticut.
Professor Beardsley's Research Station- While not always open to the public, the exhibit is used mainly as an education center and is home to several of the zoo's education animals, such as European legless lizard, and bullsnake.
Pampas Plains- This new exhibit opened in 2015 and is phase one of the zoo's "South American Adventure". It features a raised walkway to allow for better viewing and is home to maned wolves, giant anteaters, Chacoan peccaries, and greater rheas.
Natt Family Red Panda Habitat- In October 2015, the zoo became home to a young male western red panda from the Franklin Park Zoo. He was temporary exhibited in the outdoor monkey enclosure outside the Rainforest Building. In October 2018 the zoo officially opened The Natt Family Red Panda Habitat to the public. The new habitat gives the zoo's two red pandas space to roam and play and gives visitors two new viewing areas.
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[@katherineeeeeeekillerwhale]

Great tour, Tom! I love your zoo your videos so much, thanks to you I’ve got to see so many great zoos that I’m not able to see in person. This zoo is only a couple hours away from me but I haven’t been yet, I hope to soon! It’s not the flashiest zoo but the animals have good habitats, the educational signage was nice, and as an AZA zoo they do a lot for conservation, especially through their red wolf program! :) The greenhouse with exotic plants was an interesting feature. I’m not a fan of rides at zoos but historic carousels have a special place in my heart, I like how places like this preserve the craftsmanship that went into them. The wooden horses are really beautiful. My favorite zoo animals in this video were the felids and the canids :)

[@stevec8433]

Hello Tom great video as usual. Overhere in UK will call the animal habitats as enclosures.

[@frowersss]

Another great tour, I love watching your videos for both inspiration for Planet Zoo and to see what other zoo's are like. I also appreciate that you always show the animals education boards and try your best to show us every animal while reminding us that the no shows are because of the animals free choice to be off show.

[@SamsExotics]

I also these for the same reasons! This is the best way to get inspiration without physically going to a zoo in my opinion! I also just really love zoos!

[@janetmclendon8023]

Leopard fav. Love that aviary where ducks were. So Beautiful and peaceful ponds and waterfall. 👍 like zoo large variety of animals

[@davidellis4084]

Thanks for the tour. I liked the Amur Leopard most, but there were many nice animals there.

[@TheRonin2024]

such a lovely zoo fav animal is ofcourse Red Panda

[@malcolmhuckvale3763]

Tamandua at 37.30 Tom. Great vid as always

[@kyleh698]

Great Video!

[@zacharyszooadventures3184]

hi tom This looks like a beautiful zoo, I am definitely putting this zoo on my to do list

[@user-qs5mx1ic6b]

I like all the information that the signs have from Peyton

[@user-qs5mx1ic6b]

My favorite animals that you say today are the miniature horses. Maned wolf . North American river otters. The gray fox. The red wolf and the gray wolf. And the prairie dogs

[@j2fly1]

Spread your wings

[@PaulZello]

As an avid visitor of Beardsley Zoo, I can tell you most of the names of the animals!

[@TomsRoadTrippin]

I have been to a couple of zoos that listed the animals names of the signage. It really adds to the experience for me, I'm sure you've noticed how I interact with the animals. I very much try to treat them with respect and affection.

[@user-qs5mx1ic6b]

And the Ross park zoo in New York from Peyton

[@user-qs5mx1ic6b]

Tom are you still going to the Leigh valley zoo in Pennsylvania and rose pond grifford zoo and

[@treys1607]

Yes he already went to all three of them

[@cheaplaughkennedy2318]

Here at the Washington D.C. zoo they’ve removed most of the exotic animals they once had back in the sixties and seventies.

[@phoenix0401]

That’s what I see in every maned wolf habitat in the country.

[@cherylscialis2032]

No more seals ?

[@TomsRoadTrippin]

They were moved to the Mystic Aquarium

[@treys1607]

They used to have Canada Lynxes but then they got transferred to he Buffalo Zoo

[@TomsRoadTrippin]

Those are such pretty cats, very fuzzy 😍

[@thescreennerdshow5592]

why do they have to have peacocks and guinea fowls running around the zoo they should be kept in the habitat

[@treys1607]

On the contrary those animals don't like being in confined spaces so they need good roaming space