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The Animal Game: Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674737341. OCLC 946906577. Flank, Lenny (2021). The Zoo Tourist: Visiting America's Zoos and Aquariums. Red and Black Publishers. ISBN 9781610011440. OCLC 1400972328. Nyhuis, Allen W. (2008).
Jack Bushnell Hanna (born January 2, 1947) is an American retired zookeeper and director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.Commonly nicknamed "Jungle Jack", [3] he was director of the zoo from 1978 to 1992, and is viewed as largely responsible for elevating its quality and reputation.
The zoo also has a close working relationship with the Wilds, a 9,154-acre (37.04 km 2) animal conservation center located in southeast Ohio and featured on the Columbus Zoo's website. [ 9 ] Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, and by extension The Wilds, are prominently featured in the Nat Geo Wild series Secrets of the Zoo , a series focusing on ...
To accommodate and include guests of all abilities and ages, the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium will host sensory-friendly events on Tuesday and Dec. 8.
A rise in visitors arriving in late morning and afternoon prompted the zoo's decision to open at noon during Wildlights, which runs through Jan. 5.
The Columbus Zoo Lantern Festival is a separately ticketed event that operates after the zoo's normal hours. It will be open from 7-10 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays, through Sept. 29.
The Los Angeles Zoo has been successful in its breeding program of the rare California condor, helping to grow the number of condors in the world from a low of 22 in the 1980s to over 430 today. [30] It is one of the few zoos worldwide to have the mountain tapir , and is the only zoo outside of Peru and Brazil to house the red uakari .
Starting Thursday, after-hours guests at the Columbus Zoo can experience 'Unextinct.' a world filled with extinct and endangered species.