# Houston Zoo

- **Country:** United States
- **Coordinates:** 29.716132, -95.390569
- **Area:** 55 acre
- **Logo:** Houston Zoo Stacked.jpg
- **Owner:** Houston Zoo Inc.
- **Slogan:** See them. Save them.|date_opened=September 1922
- **Location:** Houston, Texas, United States
- **Zoo Name:** Houston Zoo
- **Logo Width:** 220px
- **Num Animals:** 4300
- **Num Species:** 575
- **Annual Visitors:** 2000000

The Houston Zoo (also known historically as the Hermann Park Zoo and the Houston Zoological Gardens) is a zoological park located within Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States. The zoo opened in 1922 as a park attraction housing 40 animals. In 2026 it housed around 4300 animals, and as of 2024 the collections included representatives of 575 species. The zoo had 2 million visitors in 2024.

![Photo of Houston Zoo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Houston_Zoo_Main_Entrance.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Zoo (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)