It features such animals as tigers, lions, pygmy hippopotamus, Asian elephants, Dagestan and Bezoar goats, Siamese crocodiles, and flamingos.

[2] Rostov-on-Don Zoo is a member of the International Species Information System.

A large park is a main feature of the zoo, making it a popular place among local citizens.

The zoo, which hadn't had elephants in over twenty years, now hosts them in exchange for a polar bear.

[citation needed] There is also a section of the aquarium which presents inhabitants of the underwater world — from the fish of the Don region to freshwater stingrays and crabs from South America.