If you’re a horse owner, chances are you’re also an all-around animal lover, and there’s no better place to visit with the wild and woolly in Kentucky than at the Louisville Zoo. The zoo is home to a rare Brazilian ocelot, a forest of gorillas, and the world’s first multi-species rotational exhibit. Patti Nickell goes Into more detail in Horse Lover’s Guide to Kentucky: 

“It’s a long way from the tropical rainforests of East Africa to the bluegrass of Kentucky, but the Western lowland gorillas that hang out in the Louisville Zoo’s Gorilla Forest have made themselves at home. Their 9,300-square-foot sanctuary lies at the end of a discovery trail that wends its way through lush tropical growth where sharp-eyed observers can also spot pygmy hippos frolicking in their watering hole and whimsical meerkats and naked mole rats scampering about their earthen dwellings. In the neighboring African Savannah, visitors become intrepid adventurers in search of the Dark Continent’s big game Ñ elephants, rhinos, and lions Ñ as well as zebras and giraffes