The Fort Worth Zoo was rated as one of the top zoos by a magazine published in Birmingham Alabama.
 The zoo now is home to 5,000 native and exotic animals and has been named as a top zoo in the nation by "Family Life" magazine, the "Los Angeles Times" and "USA Today", as well as one of the top zoos in the South by "Southern Living" Reader's Choice Awards. 
 It is published by Birmingham, Alabamabased Southern Progress Corporation, a unit of Time Inc. 
