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Sea lion and keeper at the Welsh Mountain Zoo. A zoo (short for zoological garden; also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition and often bred for conservation purposes. [1] The term zoological garden refers to zoology, the study of animals.
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).
San Antonio Zoo is a 50+ acre zoo home to over 750 species, some of which are endangered or extinct in the wild, and an annual attendance of more than 1 million. [4] It also runs non-animal attractions, such as the 2 ft ( 610 mm ) narrow gauge San Antonio Zoo Eagle train ride, which first opened in 1956.
The photographs in Helen Palmer's children's book I Was Kissed by a Seal at the Zoo were taken at the San Diego Zoo, and featured children from the Francis Parker School in San Diego interacting with the zoo's animals and staff. [113] The game show Animal Planet ZooVenture taped at the San Diego Zoo between 1998 and 2000. JD Roth was the host.
Jersey Zoo (formerly Durrell Wildlife Park [3]) is a zoological park established in 1959 [2] on the island of Jersey in the English Channel by naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell. It is operated by the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust .
Xiao Qi Ji was born on August 21, 2020, at 6:35 PM to Mei Xiang and Tian Tian the National Zoo's second pair of giant pandas. With Xiao Qi Ji's birth, Mei Xiang, who is aged 22 years, set a record of being the oldest giant panda in the United States to give birth and the second oldest panda to give birth in the world. [4]
Taliger at the G. W. Zoo, pictured in 2013. Situated on 16 acres (6.5 ha), the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park began as a shelter for endangered and exotic species of animals, and was home to over fifty species of animals and 200 big cats, such as tigers, lions, pumas, ligers and tigons.
The Prospect Park Zoo is part of the Wildlife Conservation Society, an integrated network of four zoos and an aquarium spread throughout New York City. [a] Located at 450 Flatbush Avenue, across from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the zoo is situated on a 12-acre (4.9 ha) plot [2] somewhat lower than street level in Prospect Park.