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ZOOS (continued): • The oldest continuously-operating zoo in the world can be found in Vienna, Austria, the Tiergarten Schonbrunn, located on the grounds of the Schonbrunn Palace. It began as an imperial menagerie in 1752 by order of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I. At first the menagerie was limited to the imperial family and its court, but after 13 years, it was opened to the public. Emperor Joseph II organized safaris to Africa and expeditions to the Americas to obtain animals for the zoo, including its first giraffe in 1828. In 1906, it became the site of the birth of the first elephant in captivity. Today, it is home to upwards of 700 animal species, including several endangered ones. • America’s oldest zoo is in Philadelphia. Although chartered by the state and founded in 1859, it didn’t officially open until 1874, delayed because of the Civil War. In the meantime, in 1860, a small 6.5-acre zoo opened in New York City’s Central Park, the nation’s first zoo open to the public. Central Park’s menagerie started out with 72 white swans and a black bear cub. The collection grew as citizens and circuses donated animals to the city. A new zoo was built in 1934, with a total of nine buildings, taking nine months to complete. By the early 1980s, the zoo had fallen in disrepair, and was torn down and rebuilt to resemble the 1934 facility, a four-year project. Two of those original 1934 buildings remain there today. • America’s second oldest zoo is located in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is home to the oldest zoo building in the country, built in 1875. The Cincinnati Zoological Society was founded in 1873, and the zoo opened on 65 acres in 1875 with 8 monkeys, 2 grizzly bears, 3 deer, 6 raccoons, 2 elk, a buffalo, a hyena, a tiger, alligator, a circus elephant, and 400 birds. (continued on next page)

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• The large amount of birds at the Cincinnati Zoo was due to a severe outbreak of caterpillars in the city, leading the city to import 1,000 insect-eating birds from Europe. This zoo was the birthplace of the first sea lion born in captivity. It was also home to the last living Carolina parakeet, which died there in 1918. • The world-famous San Diego Zoo got its start at the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, a World’s Fair that celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal. When the Exposition closed, the exotic animal exhibitions were abandoned and the creatures were claimed for a new zoo at Balboa Park. Additional animals were purchased from a bankrupt amusement park near the Pacific Ocean known as Wonderland. The amusement park, the first of its kind in the area, featured the largest roller coaster on the West Coast, a carousel, water slide, skating rink, and bowling alley. It was also home to a menagerie of lions, bears, leopards, wolves, mountain lions, a hyena, and more than 50 varieties of monkeys. Today, the San Diego Zoo covers 100 acres, with 4,000 animals from more than 800 species. In the 1960s, all children under 16 were admitted free. The current price for a child’s ticket up to age 11 is $48. • The Queens Zoo in New York City was built on the site of the 1964 World’s Fair. When it opened in 1968 as Flushing Meadow Zoo, it was the first cageless zoo. It was renamed the Queens Zoo after a $16 million renovation in 1992. • Staten Island’s zoo opened in 1936 and was the first zoo to exhibit all 32 varieties of rattlesnakes known in the U.S. at the time. By the late 1960s, theirs was the most complete rattler collection with 39 varieties. (continued on next page)

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