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Zoo in Oklahoma, United States

The zoo hosts a variety of exhibits, including the Lost Kingdom complex and its Valley of the Elephant enclosure.

Lost Kingdom allows guests to roam through gardens and settings inspired by ancient Asian cultures such as the city at Angkor Wat. Lost Kingdom contains animals such as Malayan tigers, snow leopards, Chinese alligators, siamangs, binturongs, and Komodo dragons.

The Valley of the Elephant encompasses a area for the zoo's three elephants. The area includes a life sized climbable elephant sculpture and an Elephant Interpretive Center which highlights the life of Asian elephant species. Visitors can observe the elephants from both indoor and outdoor viewing areas in an exhibit that includes an elephant demonstration yard.

The Robert J. LaFortune Wild Life Trek is a four building complex, formerly the North American Living Museum, and is the recipient of awards such as best new exhibit when it was constructed in 1978. As of spring 2013, each building focuses on animals from around the world and their adaptations to life in the water, desert, forest, and cold. Animals in this complex include Siberian cranes, tawny frogmouth, emerald doves, chinchilla, peccary, seahorses, and grizzly bears.

The Rainforest is a recreation of Central and South American rainforests spanning 13,000 square feet of indoor exhibit space. Exhibits include species such as black howler monkeys, a green anaconda, piranhas, dwarf caimans, jaguars, and golden headed lion tamarins. Many species roam freely, including rainforest birds, two toed sloths, and Jamaican fruit bats. Throughout this exhibit is evidence of native cultures, from the colossal Olmec Head which marks the entrance to the exhibit, to murals and structures incorporated within exhibits. The roof is composed of translucent panels to illuminate the canopy of the rainforest, and a path that guides visitors through the building.

This large outdoor island habitat provides chimpanzees with access to a climbing structure consisting of cargo nets and ropes, caves, a termite mound, and vegetation. Completed in 1991, the "Chimpanzee Connection" building provides indoor viewing through glass. After its completion, Dr. Jane Goodall proclaimed the facility to be one of the "best she has ever seen".

A naturalistic habitat for California sea lions opened in 2012. The exhibit features a saltwater pool, an underwater viewing window wall, waterfall, rock haul out areas, themed holding building, and a large, covered seating area for visitors. A behavioral conditioning program intended to provide visitors with information about the resident sea lions is demonstrated.

The exhibit opened to the public in 2002. The penguin enclosure is the foundation of "Oceans and Islands", an exhibit area for the zoo that includes an African penguin exhibit, a flamingo colony, and black and white ruffed lemurs. The design for the penguin habitat includes geothermal heating and cooling to regulate the water temperature for the warm water inhabitants. A "wave pool" or water action simulator, plus a rocky coastline setting, imitates their natural habitat. Special viewing windows were built into the wall of the exhibit for visitors to observe the penguins underwater. The exhibit currently holds 20 penguins and can hold up to 30.

The African Plains area of the zoo features a variety of animals including meerkats, giraffes, lions, aldabra tortoises, white rhinos, and African wild dogs. The zoo recently opened the Mary K. Chapman Rhinoceros Reserve, which replaced an older facility and hosts the zoo's two white rhinoceroses.

The Children's Zoo has a contact yard where children can get up close with Nigerian dwarf goats, Southdown sheep, Katahdin sheep, earless American Lamancha goats, and Anglo Nubian goats. There are also dexter cows, miniature horses, and Guinea forest hogs. This exhibit also contains the Australian Outback Area, which has red kangaroos. The Children's Zoo also includes North American river otters.

Constructed in 1957, the Conservation Center has a large variety of animals including primates, reptiles, birds, and fish. Some animals exhibited include American flamingos, wrinkled hornbills, giant snakehead, radiated tortoises, Diana monkeys, white faced saki monkeys, Fiji banded iguanas, and a Grand Cayman Island blue iguana.

The African black footed penguin exhibit was funded through a citywide art campaign, popularized by the gifting of 6 foot (1.8 m) sculptures, depicting a penguin with certain visual characteristics based on its location or owner, to businesses or organizations who donated to the exhibit. There are currently 29 of these sculptures throughout the city; they are popularly known as "Tulsa Penguins".

As part of the zoo's new 20 year Master Plan, released in 2012, the zoo announced that work would begin on the second master plan project. The second project is The Lost Kingdom Exhibit highlighting rare animals from Asia. Animals exhibiting include Malayan tigers, snow leopards, and Komodo dragons. The Helmerich Foundation made the lead gift to fund the zoo's new tiger exhibit. In honor of the gift, the Tulsa Zoo named the new facility Lost Kingdom: The Helmerich Tiger exhibit, part of the Lost Kingdom complex. In addition to The Helmerich Foundation's gift, the Hardesty Family Foundation also donated to the Lost Kingdom complex. The Hardesty Family Foundation made a contribution for the new snow leopard facility, Lost Kingdom: The Hardesty Snow Leopard habitat. This new exhibit provides the zoo's snow leopards a state of the art enclosure, while allowing guests to see the animals up close.

The Tulsa Zoo Conservation Program is one of the leading conservation organizations in Oklahoma. It has supported over 200 projects globally and locally, including a conservation education program to reduce the use of palm oil, FrogWatch USA, and ocean conservation education.

In 2005, the Tulsa Zoo was named as "America's Favorite Zoo" by Microsoft Game Studios and was granted $25,000 in a contest designed to promote the Zoo Tycoon 2 computer game. The contest counted votes from zoo visitors across the country for many of America's top zoos, including the San Diego Zoo and the Bronx Zoo.

The Tulsa Zoo attracted national media attention in 2005 when a group complained about the mention of evolutionary theory and the inclusion of religious icons, theories, and beliefs in zoo displays, including a statue of the Hindu elephant headed god Ganesha as part of the elephant exhibition. The Tulsa Park Board responded by voting to add a display on Creationism. The board subsequently reconsidered and reversed its decision, citing widespread public criticism.