More than 1,000 animals live at the 65-acre zoo, including elephants, giraffes, primates, flamingos, alligators, extinct-in-the-wild Panamanian golden frogs and rare red wolves. For now, ZooTampa is well within Milton’s projected path. It lies less than 10 miles from Tampa’s waterfront, where storm surge was expected to exceed 10 feet.

ZooTampa at Lowry Park, located in Florida, announced on social media that it will be closed to guests from Oct. 8 to at least Oct. 10 to prepare for Hurricane Milton's arrival and its "projected impact" on the zoo's over 1,