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nationalzoo.si.eduWoodland Park
Zoo is located in Seattle, WA. The
zoo helps to create a sustainable future for wildlife.
www.zoo.org5000 animal from 700 species on 90 acres, including an insectarium, a children's
zoo, and a miniature train. Site has general information, animal photos,
...www.stlzoo.org1800 animals. America's first
zoo. General information, program and event summary, a complete list of animals with photos, descriptions, videos and webcams,
...www2.philadelphiazoo.orgOregon
Zoo welcomes you! Operating for more than 100 years, we're helping to inspire our community to create a better future for wildlife.
www.oregonzoo.orgInformation about mammals and birds around the world, conservation efforts, and what the
zoo is doing to help.
www.colszoo.orgLarge collection of animal related internet resources presented in a fun and easy to navigate manner. Includes many links to individual
zoo websites.
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Zoo
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Zoo (disambiguation).
Giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) in Sydney's Taronga Zoo in 2002.
A zoo or zoological garden is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures, displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred. Relatively new terms for zoos, which were coined in the late twentieth century, are conservation park or biopark. Adopting a new name is a strategy by some zoo professionals to distance their institutions from the stereotypical and nowadays criticized zoo concept of the nineteenth century.
Collections of wild animals existed already in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China. In medieval Europe some monarchs, monasteries, and municipalities continued to maintain collections of wild animals. The transition from menagerie, a predominantly private collection, to public institution marks the beginning of the modern zoo concept. Collections established during the nineteenth century began calling themselves zoological gardens. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, many new zoos and related facilities were founded for very different motives and purposes.
Zoo professionals proclaim exalting and demanding aims for their institutions, from educating the public to conservation of biodiversity. Many zoos define their aims as recreation, education, research, and conservation. Animal-rights groups claim that there is a wide gap between these claimed aims and actual practice, and that zoos have commercial and entertainment purposes in mind as well as financial profit.
Types of zoo include urban, open-range, safari, animal theme, roadside, rescue, sanctuary, petting, and specialized. The most traditional form of maintaining wild animals in captivity is keeping them in pits, barren cages constructed of concrete or metal, in small aviaries, or fenced paddocks. Most zoological gardens incorporated within international umbrella organizations are led by professionals such as zoologists or veterinarians.
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