I see that this place gets a lot of bad reviews ab...

I see that this place gets a lot of bad reviews about the enclosures and the treatment of the animals. Upon entering the facility, I believed the same thing especially with the elephant. However, we took the close encounter tour and got a kind of behind he scene look and a lot of people on the tour asked about the enclosures. What we learned is that a lot of the enclosure you see are not the animals' actual "homes." Specifically, the elephant actually stays across the street in one of the largest enclosures for an elephant in North America. Also the other animals have access to larger enclosures and big cats have connected cages that allow them running room. I was glad to learn that he situation was not as bad as it first seemed. However, I would like to see the animals always in a bigger enclosure which is why they lost a star.