San Diego Zoo

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San Diego Zoo
San Diego Zoo Street Sign.jpg
place Balboa Park , San Diego , California , USA
surface 40 hectares
opening October 2, 1916
Animal species 650
Individuals 3700
Visitor numbers 3.2 million / year
organization
Member of including AAM , AZA , WAZA and ZAA
www.sandiegozoo.org
San Diego Zoo (California)
San Diego Zoo

Coordinates: 32 ° 44 '8.5 "  N , 117 ° 9' 5.7"  W.

The San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park , San Diego , California displays over 3,700 animals from over 650 species and subspecies in an area of ​​40 acres . It is run privately and not for profit by the Zoological Society of San Diego . With around 3.2 million visitors per year, it is the most visited zoo in the USA.

Characteristics

The zoo offers guided tours with buses, with which you can visit 75% of the zoo.

Furthermore, there is a Skyfari called gondola , which provides an overview of the terrain and also is a way to get quickly from one end of the zoo to the other. Most animals live in replicas of their natural habitat . Plants typical for this habitat then also grow in these habitats . The habitats range from the African rainforest to the boreal coniferous forest to the tundra . The San Diego Zoo also has one of the largest aviaries . The San Diego Zoo operates the San Diego Zoo Safari Park , which offers the animals even more space than the zoo.

history

The zoo grew out of an exhibition of exotic animals that was abandoned after the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915 and was established on October 2, 1916.

Trivia

In 2005, Jawed Karim filmed the world's first YouTube video in this zoo.

Web links

Commons : San Diego Zoo  - Collection of Pictures, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. San Diego Zoo: About San Diego Zoo Global ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 14, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sandiegozoo.org
  2. America's Most-Visited Zoos at Travel + Leisure. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
  3. San Diego Zoo: About San Diego Zoo Global ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 14, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sandiegozoo.org
  4. Jawed Karim: Me at the zoo. In: YouTube. April 24, 2005, accessed May 29, 2020 .