Arkansas Alligator Farm and Petting Zoo

Arkansas Alligator Farm and Petting Zoo
Alligator farm circa 1902
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34°30′54″N 93°04′24″W / 34.51500°N 93.07333°W / 34.51500; -93.07333
Date opened1902[1]
LocationHot Springs, Arkansas, United States
No. of animals<400
No. of species<20
Public transit accessBus interchange Intracity Transit
Websitewww.alligatorfarmzoo.com

The Arkansas Alligator Farm and Petting Zoo is a privately owned zoo located on Whittington Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas.[2]

The farm houses but does not raise alligators and has done so since it was founded in 1902.[3] The farm includes a small museum with a collection of mounted alligators, a souvenir shop but there’s no snack bar. It includes the mummified carcass purporting to be a "Merman", similar to ones held in Ripley's Believe It or Not! museums.[4]

The main alligator pit contains a small headstone, a memorial to somebody's fox terrier that was killed by alligators on that spot in 1906.[5]

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