Most Popular Zoo Animals

Zoos keep variety of wild animals from different species and subspecies. Some zoo animals, are iconic zoo animals and are main attraction and reason to visit a zoo for a greatest number of visitors. Other visitors are more specific and their primarly goal of visiting particular zoo is to see some particular zoo animal (like for example some rare-in-zoo species like douc langur!).

Here is a list of most popular, or zoo animals that attracts wast majority of visitors:

-Elephants!
-Giraffe!
-Big cats like tigers, lions, leopards or jaguar!
-Apes like chimpanzees, gorillas or orangutans!
-Hippos, especially common hippopothamus (the big one)!
-Cetaceans like dolphins and killer-whales!
-Zebras!
-Bears like American black or Eurasian brown bear, but also Giant Panda!
-Lemurs, who becomed very popular after ''Madagascar'' movie, particularly ring-tailed lemurs!
-Monkeys with long tails and at the same time interested in visitors, like many species of Old-World (Africa & Asia) or New-World (central & South America) monkeys!
-Koala!
-Kangaroos and wallabies!
-Meerkats, again becoming very popular after ''Madagascar''movie!
-Parrots!
-Snakes and crocodiles!
-Wolves!