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Spread across 58 oak-shaded acres in Uptown New Orleans, the Audubon Zoo grew out of animal exhibits that date back to the 1884 World Cotton Centennial and the flight cage and grounds developed in the decades after; the zoo itself is generally dated to 1914. It takes its name from the artist and naturalist John James Audubon, who lived in the city in the 1820s, and it occupies a corner of Audubon Park between Magazine Street and the Mississippi River. For much of the twentieth century the zoo h...