Metro Zoo 50 minutes from downtown by subway/bus. More than 5,000 animals representing 459 wildlife species live at the Toronto Zoo. Follow any of our 4 walking trails to meet the animals indoors, outdoors or even underwater. The "Indoor Zoo" provides a tropical, year-round home for gorillas, orang-utans, butterflies and Komodo dragons. Our Siberian tigers, Polar bears, African bush elephants and the Great Indian rhinoceros live at the "Outdoor Zoo." The Toronto Zoo is open all year long. So come visit any time.