The founders originally found a lot of opposition due to the local concept at the time of a zoo as " terrible, little roadside snakefarms.

Creature Comforts was originally a 1989 British humorous animated short film about how animals feel about living in a zoo, featuring the voices of the British public " spoken " by the animals.

With the newly established wild population of these species, originally extinct from the wild the zoo was part of the coalition of ' zoos ' which together brought the species from the brink of extinction.

The Baghdad Zoo is a zoo originally opened in 1971 and located in Baghdad, Iraq, in the al-Zawraa ' Gardens area along with the Zawraa Amusement Park and Zawraa ' Tower.

* The zoo also houses a hand-carved carousel, originally built for the Cincinnati Zoo in 1918 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, head carver John Zalar.

The zoo originally began in 1894 as Riverview Park Zoo.

The zoo grounds was originally an imperial manor during the Ming Dynasty that became part of the estate of the general Fukang ' an during the Qing Dynasty.

The zoo was originally established at the outbreak of the Second Boer War in 1899 and became the official National Zoological Gardens in 1916.

The zoo, originally called Cleveland Zoological Park, first opened at Wade Park in 1882 on the current location of Cleveland Museum of Art.

The zoo was originally set up by G. H.

The newly renovated zoo had originally been planned to reopen in 1985 at a cost of $ 14 million ; however, the project saw troubled times that delayed the opening for three years.

This exhibit is a children's petting zoo that was originally created in 1975, and has been renovated and renamed " Children's Enchanted Forest.

Ziggy was originally bought by theater empresario Florenz Ziegfeld as a birthday present for his daughter Patricia, but was given to the zoo when he outgrew his pen on the grounds of the Ziegfelds ' manor in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

This building originally opened in 1912 ( the same year the zoo itself opened to the public ), and was renovated around the mid 1970s to exhibit birds in more naturalistic environments.

Happy Hollow Park & Zoo is a small zoo and amusement park in San Jose, California which originally opened in 1961.

* Dr. Splitz / Splitzy: An orangutan, originally a crazed and teased zoo orangutan, with a split personality, alternating between a formal scientific tone (" Dr. Splitz ") and a good-old-boy Southern drawl (" Splitzy ").

He was originally picked up from a zoo, where he was kept alone ; stories in the show imply that he developed the dual personality to give himself some company.

The park originally featured a petting zoo with deer, llamas, monkey, chickens and ducks, as well as a children's area called Storybook Lane.

There is also a zoo at Norbulingka, originally to keep the animals which were given to the Dalai Lamas.

: For the zoo called the same, see the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens.

Usually only the middle gate was open, so people who walked through that gate, looked what was written above it and saw ' Artis ', thinking that the zoo was just called Artis.

The biggest touristic attraction is called Beekse Bergen, consisting of a zoo, amusement park, holiday bungalow park, and camping parks.

In a March 2000 article for Game Studies, Diane Carr called the setting " a freak show, a long story, a zoo, and a cabinet of talkative curiosities " and described the creatures and monsters in the game as " grotesque rather than scary ".

A tree filled with snakes, a carousel, antique cars, koi pond, children's playground ( called Kiddie Kingdom ,) petting zoo ( named Happy Feeling ) and a restaurant named Gingerbread Fancy ( now Granny's Country Kitchen ) were also borrowed from the floral park concept to create a section of The Enchanted Forest.

There is an overhead gondola lift called the Skyfari, providing an aerial view of the zoo.

It employs numerous professional geneticists, cytologists, and veterinarians and maintains a cryopreservation facility for rare sperm and eggs called the frozen zoo.

* The 6ths first album Wasps ' Nests includes a song called " San Diego Zoo ", which features comprehensive directions on how to get to the zoo.

The park contains a waterpark called The Boardwalk at Hersheypark, and a zoo called ZOOAMERICA-North American Wildlife Park.

These include the first known instance of what is now called the Dyson sphere, reference to a scenario closely predicting the later zoo hypothesis or Star Trek's Prime Directive, many imaginative descriptions of species, civilizations and methods of warfare, and the idea that the stars and even the pre-galactic nebulae are intelligent beings, operating on vast time scales.

Jijamata Udyaan () formerly called Rani Bagh or Victoria Gardens, and now also known as Veermata Jijabai Bhonsle Udyan, is a zoo and garden located at Byculla, in the heart of Mumbai, India.

One popular feature was a human zoo, called a " negro village ", composed of 400 " indigenous people ".

Despite its size, Orono boasts a popular zoo called Jungle Cat World, located on the north side of Orono, as well as the Orono Fair which draw people from miles around.

A petting zoo ( often called, or part of, a " children's zoo ") features a combination of domestic animals and some wild species that are docile enough to touch and feed.

In addition to independent petting zoos, also called children's farms or petting farms, many general zoos contain a petting zoo.

In 2010 the zoo opened a new exhibit with new dinosaurs, called Prehistoric Predators.

The old zoo was converted into an urban farm called Riverdale Farm, which opened in 1978.

He plans for more inspiration by visiting a zoo in Las Vegas for a newly appointed book called " Alex Returns.

There is a theme park called " Aichi Kodomo no Kuni " ( Aichi Children's Land ) with a swimming pool, a camp, walking course, and a small zoo.

The zoo provides a free online service called Talking Zoo which lets visitors download hours of animal information onto their iPod, MP3 player, mobile phone or PDA.

* Zoo: Byculla houses the city zoo called Jijamata Udyaan or Rani Baug ( earlier called Victoria Gardens ).

" Another song, " Manhattan " ( by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart for the 1925 musical " Garrick Gaieties "), declares " We'll have Manhattan ,/ The Bronx and Staten / Island too ./ It's lovely going through / the zoo.

* March 20 – Ota Benga, a Congolese pygmy brought to America as part of a racist exhibition at the Bronx zoo.

The zoo comprises of park lands and naturalistic habitats, through which the Bronx River flows.

Ota Benga ( circa 1883 – March 20, 1916 ) was a Congolese Mbuti pygmy known for being featured with other Africans in an anthropology exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904, and later in a controversial human zoo exhibit in the Bronx Zoo in 1906.

The contest counted votes from zoo visitors across the country for many of America's top zoos, including the San Diego Zoo and the Bronx Zoo.

Heinz shows her a present he got for her: two penguins he stole from the Bronx zoo.

* The Bronx Zoo, New York City's main zoo