Architecturally speaking, the Audubon Big cats and Great Apes exhibits were really neat, stunning even.
From the animal's perspective....YIKES. These scenes are stills from the film "Cat People" (RKO/Universal)
filmed primarily in the Audubon Zoo and around New Orleans. Keep in mind this movie was released in the
early 80s, so production had to have been taking place in the late 70s, so this is pretty much the very
edge of this being acceptable to anyone who loved animals. To see this facility today, for me is
breath-taking. And I won't lie, the nostalgia of seeing all of this does take the edge off the embarrassment.
I love these pics.
"We're gonna make this LION EXHIBIT more natural, see...we're gonna lean a piece of driftwood against the wall."
