San Diego Zoo
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| 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 | |
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| Member of | including AAM , AZA , WAZA and ZAA | |
| www.sandiegozoo.org | ||
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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.
Entrance to the zoo 
Bus in the zoo
Trivia
In 2005, Jawed Karim filmed the world's first YouTube video in this zoo.
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ America's Most-Visited Zoos at Travel + Leisure. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Jawed Karim: Me at the zoo. In: YouTube. April 24, 2005, accessed May 29, 2020 .
