It is also home to two rare white tigers and rare white alligators.
Some of the white alligators were transferred to there, and a riverboat began service taking visitors between the facilities.
A male white alligator (Alligator mississipiensis) was a visitor to the zoo during the 90s.
The house includes one of only fourteen white alligators in existence, Blanco.
H Map Aquarium of the Americas simulates an eclectic selection of watery habitats - look for the rare white alligator.
The white alligator also returned to the aquarium for the summer.
There are two kinds of white alligators, albino and leucistic.
The lake has even played home to a white alligator that was abandoned in its waters.
The aquarium is also home to two white alligators found by fishermen in a Louisiana swamp in 1986 and to many fish and birds indigenous to the state.
Next year, the zoo is to receive a rare white alligator.