The Chapultepec Zoo is the most visited attraction of the park, especially on Sundays when many Mexico City families come ; it is estimated that half of all park visitors come to the zoo.

Auditors estimated that Salisbury owed the zoo more than $ 200, 000 and suggested a criminal investigation.

The current master plan, developed by Wichita, Kansas based WDM Design Architects for the zoo, includes an Africa project, to be built on of undeveloped zoo property to the North of the current zoo at an estimated cost of $ 20 million.

An estimated two-million people visited the zoo in 1920.

The prospect of raising the estimated $ 150, 000 needed for a new, larger enclosure was uncertain, and zoo officials feared Binky would have to be sent to the Milwaukee Zoo.

The zoo received the Park Scout Award for the fourth year running in 2009 / 10, placing it among the best zoos in Germany.

The first zoo hippo in modern history was Obaysch who arrived at the London Zoo on May 25, 1850, where he attracted up to 10, 000 visitors a day and inspired a popular song, the Hippopotamus Polka.

He was alone with the tiger for about 10 minutes, and was attacked on his shoulder, arms, legs, and back, before he was rescued by zoo officials ( who used fire extinguishers to chase the tiger away and told him to escape by rolling under a wire ), according to Zoo Director Jim Breheny.

During the same year the merchants around Camden offered a $ 10, 000 reward for the capture of the Jersey Devil, even offering to build a private zoo to house the creature if captured.

Jagodina opened its zoo on July 10, 2006, at a cost of 30 million Serbian dinars.

On 10 May 2009, it was reported that a new born Macaw was stolen from the zoo.

The Royal Zoological Society of Dublin was established at a meeting held at the Rotunda Hospital on 10 May 1830 and the zoo, then called the Zoological Gardens Dublin, was opened on 1 September 1831.

Over the next 10 years the zoo was expanded to with spacious enclosures that are still in use.

In November 2008, the zoo announced that in the first 10 months of 2008, its operating revenue had increased 18 % from its intake the previous year.

" True to its charter, the Society immediately exerted its influence on the zoo, obtaining more than 1, 300 annual memberships in its first 10 years ( nearly 25, 000 today ).

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All the animals in the zoo and Planckendael combined, consume about 41 tons of fish, 52 tons of meat, 37 tons of apples, 36 tons of carrots, 128 tons of hay, 4, 000 litres of milk, 23, 000 eggs and 10, 000 loaves of bread.

This effort is now supported by the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital next to the zoo, which can care for up to 10, 000 animals per year, with two operating theaters, two treatment rooms, intensive care units for mammals, birds, and reptiles, and a CAT scan room.

In anticipation of the hundredth anniversary of the zoo, the Society has commenced its ' Zoo Century ' campaign to support a $ 27 million redevelopment of the zoo over the next 10 years.

BZI undertook an intense 18-month effort to address the most pressing and immediate problems so that the zoo could become accredited by the AZA once again, ranking the Zoo in the top 10 % of animal holding facilities in the nation.

The zoo attracts around 10, 000 visitors every day with the number increasing during the weekends.

The Poppers unexpectedly come into possession of a penguin, Captain Cook, the Popper's then receive a female penguin from the zoo who then mates with Captain Cook to have 10 baby penguins.

The zoo houses 5, 000 animals from 140 species and receives 3 million visitors a year.

The zoo, which is supported by tax revenues and open to everyone, attracts 2 million visitors per year, according to the Washington Post in 2005.

Since the year 2000, more than a million people visit the zoo annually.

Housing over 6, 000 animals belonging to over 900 species, the zoo receives 1. 6 million visitors each year and is the seventh most visited zoo in the nation.

The Zoo ’ s Koala Crossing opened in 1999 and the new $ 6 million McGovern Children ’ s Zoo made its debut in 2000 along with the zoo ’ s new West Entry ( now Medical Center Gate ).

In 2003, the zoo reopened the spectacled bear exhibit following a $ 1 million renovation.

The zoo attracts about 1. 6 million visitors each year.

In 2011, the zoo announced refurbishment and renovation plans for the zoo's listed buildings and parts of the zoo itself ; totalling £ 1. 15 million.

In 2005, a new 75-100 million dollar master plan for the zoo was made involving all of the zoo and park.

On April 27, 2007 the zoo broke ground on the first phase of the new master plan, starting construction of an 4. 1 million dollar " BISSELL Lions of Lake Manyara " exhibit.

Attendance at the zoo reached a record 1. 6 million visitors for their 2008 to 2009 year.

The exhibit cost $ 11. 6 million and is located near the entrance to the zoo.

* The zoo will bring back the panda exhibit for 2013, under an agreement with China that will have two giant pandas at the Toronto Zoo for five years at a cost of $ 20 million.

Over the past five years the zoo has contributed over $ 3. 3 million to more than 70 projects in 30 countries.

In April 2004, Vaughan moved to radio and returned to the " zoo " format, when he replaced Chris Tarrant as the presenter of Capital Breakfast on 95. 8 Capital FM, which saw the listening figures for his show drop from over 1. 3 million to 980, 000 listeners, according to official RAJAR statistics.

By the early 1890s, streetcar lines reached the park, carrying nearly 3 million visitors a year, and after the closing of the city zoo, its animals were moved to the park during this time.

In 2010, the zoo attracted 2. 9 million visitors to its collection of more than 18, 000 animals.

The director of the zoo, Yusuf Paul said the zoo had purchased two female white Bengal Tigers from supplier Mohammad Afzal of a Lahore-based organisation, Animal World, for 7. 6 million Pakistani rupees.

More than six million visitors come to the zoo each year.