I visited the Exotic Resort Zoo and reviewed it on my Snowleopard's 2015 Road Trip thread and I also uploaded 40 photos into the gallery.
Here are my thoughts from 8 years ago:
Exotic Resort Zoo is a non-AZA accredited zoo located in Johnson City, Texas, and it is situated on 137 acres. There are over 500 animals of 80 species but the facility is very disappointing and it was an odd visit. Essentially there is a small walk-around section with the now obligatory Ring-Tailed Lemurs and domestic goats, plus a few random exotics in several chicken-wire pens such as Red Kangaroos and Bennett’s Wallabies. A visit consists of a 50-minute tram tour and that is where a tractor pulls a cart where there are 5-foot railings where feed buckets can be hung. The cart has a wooden bench along each side and I was all alone nestled amongst several families. For the first time on the trip I really felt like an outsider as I didn’t buy one of the 10-pound feed buckets and so it was weird to have all of these little kids feeding the animals while I just took photos of the herds.
It was also a little alarming at how large numbers of Fallow Deer, Sika Deer and Aoudad would trail after the cart as if they had never been fed before in their lives. There were a small number of other exotics like American Bison, Rocky Mountain Elk, Bactrian Camel, Grant’s Zebra, Common Eland, Greater Kudu, Blackbuck and Scimitar-Horned Oryx. Plus there was Scottish Highland Cattle, Zebu and the comforting sight of an Ostrich, Emu and Rhea rambling together just as they would in the wild.
