David Traylor Zoo of Emporia creates an environment that provides an opportunity for cultural enrichment for the community and surrounding area while fulfilling the Zoo’s obligations of conservation, education, and recreation.
At the David Traylor Zoo of Emporia, you will see many amazing animals such as reptiles (cold-blooded, vertebrate animals covered in scales. Some species of reptiles lay eggs, while some give live-birth), mammals (warm-blooded, vertebrate animals characterized by the production of milk in female mammary glands), amphibians(vertebrate animals that spend part of their lives as aquatic larvae and part of their lives as air-breathing adults), birds, and more!