Alaska Zoo, Zoo in Anchorage, United States.

The Alaska Zoo occupies 25 acres (10 ha) on the Anchorage Hillside and holds more than 100 birds and mammals across about 50 species, the widest range of Alaskan native animals of any zoo, alongside Amur tigers, Bactrian camels and yaks. Many residents were found orphaned or injured.

In 1966 Anchorage grocer Jack Snyder won a contest offering "$3,000 or a baby elephant" and chose Annabelle, an Asian elephant kept at Sammye Seawell's Diamond H Horse Ranch. Seawell incorporated the Alaska Children's Zoo on March 28, 1968; it opened in 1969 and was renamed the Alaska Zoo in June 1980.

The zoo's name changed from Alaska Children's Zoo to Alaska Zoo in June 1980. Its best-known resident, the polar bear Binky, became a local figure after mauling two visitors in 1994, and the polar bear enclosure was later rebuilt to be human-proof. Many animals arrived as orphans or injured wildlife, including Binky, found near Cape Beaufort.

The zoo sits on 25 acres (10 ha) on the Anchorage Hillside and draws nearly 200,000 visitors a year. Many of the birds and mammals, about 50 species, were found orphaned or injured, so some enclosures are off the main loop. The polar bear exhibit is now built to keep people out.

Maggie, an African elephant from Zimbabwe, was given the world's first elephant treadmill at the zoo. She arrived in 1983 as a companion for Annabelle and was moved to the PAWS sanctuary in California on June 6, 2007, by game show host Bob Barker. She died in August 2021.