Creation Kingdom Zoo is a small zoo with lots of room for growth. From speaking with one of the owners, I learned that over the next four years they have plans to grow the place by at least 28 new exhibits. One animal that is soon to join the zoo is a sloth bear. From the looks of the pictures at National Geographic, it looks like this bear would be worth the trip to come back to see. Actually, the whole zoo is worth another trip.
There is nothing like handing a slice of an apple to a capuchin monkey as he reaches out with one hand to grab the apple and with the other hand to hold on to your finger. As I walked past the African Hornbill, he began to stretch his long neck as if begging me to scratch it. So, I did. And he stretched it even further for me. At many petting zoos, you get the opportunity to feed the donkeys, steers, goats, camels and zebras. This zoo offered the same. What was different is how close you could get to all of the other animals - the tortoise (who covered 12 feet in less than 3 seconds to come check me out as I was taking his photo), the peacocks, the quail, the ostrich, the red lemurs, the ring-tailed lemurs (who could also be hand-fed an apple slice), and the monkeys who put on a show begging for some apples.
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth . . . and God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:1, 20-25, KJV