Xzootic Animal Park and Butterfly Garden

Overview

Xzootic Animal Park and Butterfly Garden is a small private zoo and butterfly sanctuary in Barangay Agape, Loay, along the Loboc River corridor. The park’s collection includes a range of exotic species, with two Burmese pythons over 200 kg each as the main draw, plus a butterfly sanctuary on the same compound. TripAdvisor reviews as of 2026 are overwhelmingly negative on animal welfare grounds, not merely mixed: the facility carries a 1.5-out-of-5 rating across 87 reviews, with recent visitors (January 2026, May 2025, January 2025) describing barren enclosures, algae-covered water for the crocodile, and undersized, unenriched housing for the monkeys.

As a business, Xzootic sits in a small but recognisable category of private wildlife-viewing operations that grew up alongside Bohol’s countryside-tour circuit over the past two decades — family-run compounds charging modest gate fees to show off exotic or unusual animals to bus tours passing between the Chocolate Hills and Loboc River. It employs a small number of local staff as keepers, guides, and gate attendants, and its main revenue depends on inclusion in tour-operator itineraries rather than independent foot traffic, since the park sits off a road most visitors are already travelling for the river cruise or the tarsier sanctuary.

Location

Barangay Agape, Loay, Bohol. Loay is a municipality approximately 20 km east of Tagbilaran City along the Loboc River road, frequently passed en route to the Loboc Ecotourism Adventure Park and Bilar Man-made Forest.

Getting There

From Tagbilaran City, take a jeepney or van heading toward Loboc or Carmen — Loay is approximately 30 to 40 minutes by road. The park is in Barangay Agape; ask the driver for the Xzootic Animal Park stop. The exact roadside landmark and GPS pin for the entrance are not confirmed in available sources — confirm with the driver or locally in Barangay Agape.

Practical Info

• Admission: a 2020-era visitor review cites ₱90, but no current official rate was found — confirm the current entrance fee locally before visiting.
• Hours: daily opening hours are not confirmed in available sources; confirm locally before making the trip.
• Activities: viewing exotic animals, butterfly sanctuary, python photo opportunity

What to Expect

The collection runs to snakes — Burmese and albino Burmese pythons, the largest over 200 kg — plus hawks, lovebirds, peacocks, parrots, crocodiles, and monkeys. The BPTO source also lists ostrich, civet cat, Asian leopard cat, binturong (bear cat), macaque monkey, porcupines, and owls, with the butterfly sanctuary occupying its own section of the compound.

The park sits along the Loboc tourism corridor and is often combined with Loboc River cruise stops and the Bohol Cultural Village. The welfare concerns documented above are a real consideration before visiting — the park operates as a private facility with no publicly documented welfare certification, no visible accreditation from the Philippine Animal Welfare Society or an equivalent body, and no published enclosure-standards policy that this profile could locate. That distinguishes it from Bohol’s government-supervised wildlife sites, such as the Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary in Corella, which operates under an explicit conservation mandate and posted welfare protocols.

None of that is a judgment on the operators’ intentions — running an exotic-animal facility in a small provincial town on tour-bus-scale revenue is a genuinely difficult economics problem, and enclosure upgrades cost real money that a modest gate fee may not cover. It is simply a fact pattern worth weighing against a visit, alongside the park’s role as a livelihood for its staff and a fixture of the local tour-operator economy.

Notes

• Other Loay attractions in the same area: Bohol Lemur and Butterfly, Firefly Watching, Bohol Cultural Village
• Animal welfare update: reviews from January 2026 confirm conditions have not improved and, per recent visitor accounts, may have worsened — no independently verifiable improvements are documented. Visitors with animal-welfare concerns may want to weigh this before including the park in an itinerary.

Xzootic Animal Park — Tripadvisor reviews, accessed 2026-07-17.