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Zoo Location


The Zoo is located at 402 Zoo Circle, Lufkin, Texas 75904. On the north Loop 287, exit north on Martin Luther King and turn left immediately onto Zoo Circle. Parking is available along the street or the parking lots in Ellen Trout Park. Buses are requested to park in the Expo Center parking lot.  Call 936-633-0399 for more information.  Click here for a map.

 

Our Mission

 

To cultivate an appreciation of the natural world and to provide environmental education and wildlife conservation for the
benefit and enjoyment

of  the citizens.

 
 

New Online Registration

 

To use the Zoo's new online registration portal please click here.

 

The following classes are full.

 

 

  • Critter Classification (1st and 2nd grade) ALL weeks

  • Wild Detective (3rd and 4th grade) ALL weeks

  • Zoo Engineers (5th and 6th grades) Week 1

  • Zoo Engineers (5th and 6th grades) Week 2

  • Zoo Engineers (5th and 6th grades) Week 3

 

 

If you are interested in attending a class that is already filled, please

Call 630-0574 to be put on a waiting list. 

 

 

 


 


Solomon Island Eclectus Parrot

 

 

 

The Ellen Trout Zoo is now home to a pair of Solomon Island Eclectus Parrots.  This is one of the smallest subspecies (about 12 inches in length) but that’s not the most interesting thing about them.  Eclectus Parrots are one of the few species of parrot that demonstrate sexual dimorphism. 

 

What that means is that males and females are different colors.  This is seen in many other types of birds including the peafowl that roam the zoo (brilliant blue males and dull brown females) and the cardinals in your back yard (brilliant red male and dull brownish female).  A second unusual fact about the coloring of Eclectus Parrots is that it is the female that is the bright color and the male that is more subdued; the reverse of what is commonly seen in other birds.  Female Eclectus Parrots are predominantly red while males are predominantly green.

 

Male and female coloring is so different that they were originally believed to be two species.  The name Eclectus comes from the word “eclectic” which means “from various sources”.  This refers to the disparate colors of the male and female. 

 

Come out to the Zoo and welcome Georgie and Cherry.


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