It is located on the northern border of Shoushan Park and houses animals from Asia, Africa, Americas and Australia, such as lions, tigers, elephants, black bears and kangaroos.

[3] Visiting experts and directors have described it as the worst government-run zoo in Taiwan in consideration of terrible conditions their animals are kept in.

Whether or not this was related to the then unconfirmed plan to import two white tigers is debatable, but the zoo reopened on July 12 in the same year after 5 months of reconstruction and as of 26 May 2011 does indeed now have the aforementioned animals.

[5][6][7] The zoo consists of the following exhibitions:[8] This area includes enclosures for hippopotamus, red-legged pademelon, Linnaeus's two-toed sloth, green iguana, Burmese python, Chinese ferret-badger, Formosan masked palm civet and meerkat.

This immersive bird enclosure includes Palawan peacock-pheasant, trumpeter hornbill, western crowned pigeon and long-tailed chinchilla.

Other animals in this area includes alpaca, Taiwan yellow cattle, miniature horses, Sardinian donkeys, Barbados Black Belly sheep, European fallow deer and Malayan sun bear.