Bayou Wildlife Park is a place to experience an African Safari in America

The Bayou Wildlife Park is located in Alvin, Texas. The park is a place for visitors to experience their own African safari. The park has over 400 animals from five continents in over 80 acres of natural habitat that visitors experience on a tram ride with experienced guides and are able to touch and feed the animals.

The park is opened year round apart from Monday's from August through to February and Christmas Day and Easter Sunday.

At the park visitors will be able to see alligators in their ponds, monkeys at three Monkey Island, see birds from Africa, India, Asia, Australia, North and South America. A petting zoo is also located in the park and pony rides are available from March through to July.

The park has been developed and is a private animal reserve of Clint Wolston. He has collected animals and birds from all over the world and allows them to roam freely. Wolston has said that by living with these animals for over 30 years he has learnt many things about the animals that he has not found in many books.

The tour takes visitors through prairie and woods with a guide who knows all the facts about the animals and is able answer any questions about the animals in the park. There are over 500 birds in the park with over 50 different types of birds.

There are over 40 species on animals at the park, these include, zebra, emu's, camels, rhino's, giraffe's and water buffalo.

The park has many endangered species in the park; these are the Bantang Cattle, White Rhino, Gaur Cattle, Barasinga Deer, Ring Tail Lenur, Bactrian camel, Pere David Deer, Addax, Scimitar Horned Oryx, Hog Deer and the Nile Lechwe. New animals are added to the park when they become available be moved to the park.

Parties are able to be held at the park. The park is a great spot for birthday parties, churches, schools, scouts and picnics.