Stroll the Museum’s elevated boardwalks and experience amazing living displays of native animals in their natural settings. Discover the rare Florida panther and red wolf, playful river otter, shy white-tailed deer, sleepy bears, tree climbing grey foxes, gobbling wild turkeys, and other native species. Observe and appreciate these ambassadors from the wild who live or once lived in the Big Bend region. These animals would not survive in the wild; they were either raised in captivity or have limited abilities as a result of injury.
Native animals on exhibit include:
- American Alligator
- Red Wolf
- Black Bear
- Cougar
- North American River Otter
- Bobcat
- White Tailed Deer
- Grey Fox
- Striped Skunk
- American Beaver
- Nine-banded Armadillo
- Birds of Prey – Bald Eagle, Eastern Screech Owl, Great Horned Owl, Barred Owl, Red Tailed Hawk, Broad Winged Hawk
- Turkey Vulture
- Box Turtle
- Wood Duck
- Wild Turkey
- Snakes – Eastern Indigo Snake, Florida Pine Snake, Gray Rat Snake, Red Rat Snake, Apalachicola King Snake, Banded Water Snake, Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, Cottonmouth Snake, Western Hognose Snake
- Gopher Tortoise
- Yellow Bellied Slider Turtle
- Alligator Snapping Turtle
