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Public zoo and botanical garden

Los Angeles Zoo

A summertime crowd at the 50.A. Zoo
Date opened	1966[1]
Location	Los Angeles, California, United States[1]
Coordinates	34°08′53″N 118°17′02″W  /  34.148146°N 118.28388°West  / 34.148146; -118.28388 Coordinates: 34°08′53″N 118°17′02″W  /  34.148146°Due north 118.28388°W  / 34.148146; -118.28388
Land area	133 acres (54 ha)[1]
No. of animals	1,400[one]
No. of species	270+[1]
Memberships	AZA,[ii] WAZA[three]
Major exhibits	Campo Gorilla Reserve, Chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains, Red Ape Rainforest, Ocean Life Cliffs, Elephants of Asia, The LAIR[1]
Website	world wide web.lazoo.org

The Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens is a 133-acre (54 ha) zoo founded in 1966 and located in Los Angeles, California. The urban center of Los Angeles owns the entire zoo, its country and facilities, and the animals. Creature intendance, grounds maintenance, construction, education, public information, and administrative staff are metropolis employees. Every bit of June 2019, Denise K. Verret serves as the zoo's director, the start female African American manager of an Association of Zoos and Aquariums-accredited institution.^[4]

History [edit]

The first zoo, called Eastlake Zoo, opened in Eastlake Park (renamed Lincoln Park in 1917) in 1885.^[v] The 2d zoo, Griffith Park Zoo, opened in 1912 and was located almost two miles (3.2 km) south of the current zoo site until it was airtight in Baronial 1966.^[6] Remnants of the original zoo remain. The site of the electric current zoo was formerly the location of Rodger Young Village, which was itself congenital on the land which had been used for the Griffith Park Aerodrome.

The zoo opened in its present location on November 28, 1966.^[half-dozen]

By the early 1990s, the zoo's infrastructure was deteriorating. In January 1992, a ten-inch water pipe burst, leaving half of the zoo without water. The next twenty-four hour period, city officials passed a $300 million main program that had been recently drafted to deal with the infrastructure problems and inadequate exhibits.^[7] The zoo nearly lost its accreditation in 1995 considering of sorry conditions; yet it rebounded under a new managing director.^[8]

In 1998, the zoo opened Chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains, followed by Red Ape RainForest in 2000, the Komodo Dragon Exhibit, the Winnick Family Children Zoo in 2001, the Entry Plaza, Children'southward Discovery Eye and Ocean Lion Cliffs (now Sea Life Cliffs) in 2005, Campo Gorilla Reserve in November 2007, Elephants of Asia in the wintertime of 2010, and the LAIR (Living Amphibians, Invertebrates, and Reptiles) in 2012.^[ane]

On June 26, 2012, a chimpanzee infant infant, built-in to Gracie, a member of a xv-chimpanzee tribe (one of the largest chimpanzee tribes of any North American zoo), was mauled to death by an adult male person chimpanzee. The zoo said this outcome was totally unexpected, although it too stated that acts of aggression by male chimpanzees (toward humans, or toward a rival male chimpanzee over territory or a desired female) are always a possibility—indeed, in that location have been several well-known cases of male chimpanzee aggression in contempo years. Gracie was allowed to keep her baby overnight to grieve, and counseling was being offered to staff (none had witnessed the event), and to the visitors who had seen the issue. It is reexamining its policy of how it introduces babe chimpanzees to the tribe.^[ix]

Escapes [edit]

The Los Angeles Zoo has had a number of notable escaped animals over the years. A particular spate of escapes took place during the belatedly 1990s and early 2000s when, in half a decade, at least 35 animals escaped the zoo including zebras, chimps, kangaroos and antelopes.^[10]

Evelyn, the gorilla, escaped her enclosure approximately five times. In one widely covered incident, she used some overgrown vines to pull herself out of her exhibit. She then had total run of the zoo for an hour as TV-news copters hovered overhead and visitors were evacuated before she was tranquilized.^[x] In a prior incident, she hopped on the back of another gorilla, Jim, to brand her escape (Jim had likewise previously escaped). Part of the trouble was the gorilla habitat was originally intended to firm bears.^[8] The situation was relieved by the opening of the specially designed Campo Gorilla Reserve in 2007.

In 1979, Virginia, a wolf, escaped the zoo multiple times by ascending trees, climbing fences, and walking along branches until she could escape. At one time she eluded capture for a month by hiding in Griffith Park. It is unclear whether Virginia was ever recaptured.^[11]

In 2014, a bighorn sheep escaped from its enclosure, and ultimately the zoo itself. It was struck by a car approximately iii hours subsequently, and afterwards died.^[12]

Exhibits and attractions [edit]

Botanical Gardens [edit]

In 2002, the zoo became a certified botanical garden and the official name of the establishment was changed to the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens. Spread throughout zoo grounds, at that place are 15 unlike collections, highlighting over 800 different plant species, with a total of over 7,400 individual plants.

Chimpanzees of Mahale Mountains [edit]

Chimpanzees of Mahale Mountains, a ane-acre (0.4-ha) exhibit complex, opened in 1998 and houses chimpanzees. The hillside showroom is dotted with boulders, palm trees, and an bogus termite mound, and features a waterfall next to a alpine stone ledge where the troop'south leader can survey much of the surface area. Guests can view the animals across various moats or through a glass viewing window.^{[1] [13] [xiv]}

Campo Gorilla Reserve [edit]

1 of several viewing locations within the Campo Gorilla Reserve

Campo Gorilla Reserve opened in Nov 2007 and features western lowland gorillas in a ane.5-acre (0.61 ha) complex.^[15] Guests tin view the animals through ii glass ascertainment windows and three other locations.^[16] On January eighteen, 2020, an endangered western lowland gorilla was born at the Los Angeles Zoo, the first to be built-in there in over two decades.^[17] Plants in the exhibit include palms, pomegranates, and ferns.^[16]

Elephants of Asia [edit]

Not to be confused with Singapore Zoo'southward Elephants of Asia, this $42 one thousand thousand exhibit complex at the center of the zoo opened in 2010 and houses Asian elephants and other southeast Asian wild fauna. The principal elephant enclosure is 3.8 acres (one.v ha)^[eighteen] and has a 16,000-square-pes (1,500 m²) befouled used for medical exams. The complex is divided into several areas, each based on a different country in the elephants' range. The Thai Pavilion teaches visitors virtually the office of elephant labor in Thailand'south economy. Guests tin can find information about elephant conservation in India at Elephants of India Plaza, which as well has a waterfall where the animals can bathe. The Elephants of Prc section houses sarus crane and Chinese water deer in a marsh habitat and has information about the history of the Dai people and their relationship with elephants.^[19]

The LAIR [edit]

The LAIR (Living Amphibians, Invertebrates, and Reptiles), which opened in 2012, is a $14 one thousand thousand indoor-outdoor showroom complex that focuses on herps and terrestrial arthropods. Guests first laissez passer through the Oak Woodland Swimming, where local species tin motility in and alive amongst native plants. The next characteristic is the 6,000-foursquare-foot (560 1000²) master building where the Damp Forest houses poison sprint frogs, Chinese giant salamanders, and a recreation of a Daintree Rainforest river with archerfish, Australian lungfish, and Fly River turtles. The Mangshan pitviper, west African green mamba, S American bushmaster and other snakes live in the adjacent segment of the building, Betty'south Seize with teeth and Squeeze Room, named afterwards Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association co-chair Betty White. Guests can see keepers intendance for animals behind the scenes in the Behind the Drinking glass room. The Intendance and Conservation Room showcases Gray'due south monitor and other endangered reptiles. After the principal building is Arroyo Lagarto, a set of outdoor exhibits for Madagascar radiated tortoise, Republic of madagascar spider tortoise, desert lizards, and California desert tortoise. A 2,000-square-foot (190 thou²) secondary building, the Desert LAIR, houses the Gila monster, Sonoran toad, Arizona Desert hairy scorpion, California kingsnake, and other species from Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California. The LAIR ends with Crocodile Swamp, an outdoor exhibit domicile to imitation gharials.^{[20] [21] [22]}

Red Ape Rain Woods [edit]

Iii Bornean orangutans remainder amongst bamboo sway poles and a creek.

Red Ape Pelting Forest, a recreation of a Southeast Asian jungle, opened in 2000 and houses Bornean orangutans. The 6,000-square-human foot (560 m²) mesh enclosure, which has openings for the invitee path to get through, is shaped similar a horizontal donut and back-dropped past hibiscus, bamboo, and rubber trees. The apes can climb on bogus sway poles, branches, and vines placed throughout the exhibit or wade in a shallow stream. Visitors enter the exhibit through an Indonesian pagoda, continue over the stream on a deck bridge, and arrive at a small pavilion with a glass viewing window. The path next leads to a large central deck where guests tin view the entirety of the surrounding exhibit. Afterward, guests proceed to an interpretive area with traditional Indonesian sociology and go out the exhibit area through another pagoda.^{[23] [24] [25]}

Rainforest of the Americas [edit]

Rainforest of the Americas features animals who live in the tropical regions of North, Central, and South America. Information technology opened in 2014 and houses the uakari, southern black howler monkey, cherry-bellied piranha, keel-billed toucan, harpy eagle, Goliath bird-eating spider, behemothic river otter, emerald tree boa, cotton-meridian tamarin, Baird'due south tapir, jaguar and other species.^[26]

List of animal species [edit]

• Addax
• African fish hawkeye
• African spoonbill
• African wild domestic dog
• Aldabra giant tortoise
• American alligator
• American badger
• American black bear
• Andean condor
• Atlantic bushmaster
• Axolotl
• Baird's tapir
• Bat-eared fox
• Binturong
• Blackness crowned crane
• Black duiker
• Blackness howler
• Black-necked swan
• Blue-billed curassow
• Blue-eyed blackness lemur
• Blue poisonous substance sprint frog
• Bluish-throated macaw
• Bongo
• Bornean orangutan
• Calamian deer
• California kingsnake
• California sea lion
• Greatcoat porcupine
• Chacoan peccary
• Chilean flamingo
• Chimpanzee
• Chinese goral
• Chinese giant salamander
• Common squirrel monkey
• Colobus monkey
• Coquerel'south sifaka
• Crested capuchin
• Crested fireback
• Crowned hawkeye
• Cuvier's dwarf caiman
• Desert bighorn sheep
• Domestic goat
• Eurasian eagle owl
• Simulated gharial
• Fennec fox
• Fossa
• François' langur
• Gaboon viper
• Geoffroy'southward spider monkey
• Gerenuk
• Gharial
• Behemothic anteater
• Giant otter
• Gila monster
• Gilded lion tamarin
• Golden poison frog
• Gopher snake
• Gray'south monitor
• Nifty blue turaco
• Greater flamingo
• Green tree python
• Grevy's zebra
• Harbor seal
• Harpy eagle
• Indian elephant
• Jaguar
• Keel-billed toucan
• King vulture
• Koala
• Komodo dragon
• Bottom kudu
• Linnaeus'south two-toed sloth
• Lowland anoa
• Lowland paca
• Magnificent tree frog
• Mandrill
• Maned wolf
• Mantled guereza
• Markhor
• Masai giraffe
• Meerkat
• Mexican beaded lizard
• Mimic poison frog
• Mount tapir
• Due north Sulawesi babirusa
• Nubian ibex
• Ocellate river stingray
• Ocelot
• Okapi
• Ostrich
• Perentie
• Grunter-nosed turtle
• Pronghorn
• Radiated tortoise
• Blood-red river hog
• Cerise-bellied piranha
• Ring-tailed lemur
• Stone hyrax
• Rosy boa
• Sacred ibis
• Sarus crane
• Scarlet macaw
• Serval
• Short-beaked echidna
• Siamang
• Sichuan takin
• Snow leopard
• S African ostrich
• Southern cassowary
• Southern hairy-nosed wombat
• Southern pudu
• Spectacled owl
• Squirrel monkey
• Steenbok
• Steller'southward sea eagle
• Sumatran tiger
• Tammar wallaby
• Von der Decken's hornbill
• Visayan warty pig
• Western greyness kangaroo
• Western lowland gorilla
• White-faced saki
• Xanthous-backed duiker
• Yellow-cheeked gibbon
• Yellow-footed stone-wallaby

Conservation [edit]

The Los Angeles Zoo has been successful in its breeding programme of the rare California condor, helping to grow the number of condors in the world from a low of 22 in the 1980s to over 430 today.^[27] It is one of the few zoos worldwide to take the mountain tapir, and is the only zoo outside of Peru and Brazil to firm the red uakari. ^[28] It was one of the first zoos to successfully breed echidnas and gave birth to the first Coquerel'southward sifaka exterior of Republic of madagascar, the sifaka'southward native homeland.

Greater Los Angeles Zoo Clan [edit]

The Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association (GLAZA) was created in 1963 and is a nonprofit corporation created to back up the Los Angeles Zoo in its mission to nurture wildlife and enrich the human experience. GLAZA's main responsibility is to seek and provide financial support for the zoo's programs and majuscule projects. GLAZA also provides support through membership, organizing special events and travel programs, producing award-winning publications, analogous 1 of the largest zoo volunteer programs in the country, administering the contract for visitor services concessions within the zoo, and supporting community relations, and public relations.^[29]

Gottlieb Animal Health and Conservation Middle [edit]

Named afterwards philanthropists Robert and Suzanne Gottlieb, the Gottlieb Animal Health and Conservation Center is a 33,589-square-foot (3,100 m²) facility situated in a restricted area in the upper reaches of the zoo. Amidst other features, it includes a state-of-the-art intensive care unit, an on-site commissary, a surgical suite with observation area, and inquiry facilities. In 2007 the facility handled 853 medical cases. The smallest patient treated was a spider tortoise (0.08 kg) and the largest was an Asian elephant (4,826 kg).

Shows and activities [edit]

Daphne the hedgehog, role of the Animals & You Program

California Condor Rescue Zone (CCRZ): The CCRZ is a play infinite designed for children ages 6 and up, where they can learn how California condors are protected. The area too features live webcam feeds of the California Condors, which are not currently exhibited because of the sensitive nature of the rescue piece of work.^[thirty]

Earth of Birds Show: Birds of casualty and other endangered birds perform. Show times: 11:30am and iii:30pm, daily, except Tuesdays. The World of Birds Show is currently running only the birds are nonetheless in training.

Animals & You Program: These xv-minute-long animal presentations take place at stations in the Winnick Family unit Children'due south Zoo.

Winnick Family Children'south Zoo: Located at the acme of Winnick Family unit Children's Zoo, this petting zoo enables visitors to pet goats and sheep in an animal contact area known every bit Muriel'south Ranch. Brushes are available at Muriel's Ranch for visitors to groom the domestic animals.

Neil Papiano Play Park: The Neil Papiano Play Park (located in the upper zoo along the perimeter road) incorporates animal-themed climbing sculptures, large play structures, a toddler area, water misters, grassy landscaping, and a large picnic area. It was designed to exist accessible to all children visiting the zoo, including those with medical and concrete challenges.

Los Angeles Zoo Magnet Centre [edit]

The Northward Hollywood High School Zoo Magnet Center is located across the street from the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Griffith Park. The programme was established in 1981 in the hopes of "a vision of providing a racially, ethnically, economically, and geographically diverse group of motivated students an enriched curriculum in animal and biological sciences."^[31] The Zoo Magnet Middle offers 300 Los Angeles high school students a higher preparatory curriculum focused on fauna studies and biological sciences. It is also run by the Los Angeles Unified Schoolhouse District.

The Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Garden'due south partnership with the Zoo Magnet Center provides high school students with opportunities to report and to practice wild animals conservation, animal intendance, biology, chemical science, and environmental stewardship in a hands-on environment.^{[ citation needed ]}

Encounter also [edit]

• John C. Holland, Los Angeles Urban center Quango fellow member, 1943–67, opposed turning the zoo over to a private organisation

References [edit]

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2. ^ "List of Accredited Zoos and Aquariums". aza.org. Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Retrieved December two, 2010.
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11. ^ Josh Sanburn, Virginia the Wolf, Los Angeles, Fourth dimension, March xxx, 2011, accessed April 13, 2013.
12. ^ "Bighorn sheep escapes Los Angeles Zoo, dies subsequently car strikes it". Reuters. November 23, 2014. Archived from the original on Dec 3, 2014.
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17. ^ "Endangered Western Lowland Gorilla Born at Los Angeles Zoo". NBC Los Angeles . Retrieved Jan 24, 2020.
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24. ^ Coe, Jon (1997). "Red Apes of the Rain Woods". lazoo.org. Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association. Archived from the original on February 10, 2001.
25. ^ "Los Angeles Zoo Kicks Off Construction of New $five One thousand thousand Orangutan Habitat". lazoo.org. Greater Los Angeles Zoo Clan. May 24, 1999. Archived from the original on June 17, 2000.
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30. ^ "Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens | California Condor Recovery Programme". Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens . Retrieved Feb 25, 2020.
31. ^ McManus, Lee. "NHHS Zoo Magnet Center". Archived from the original on May viii, 2016. Retrieved April 18, 2016.

External links [edit]

• Official website
• The Onetime Griffith Park Zoo on Modern Solar day Ruins
• Prototype of zookeepers holding lion cubs at the California Zoological Gardens (later known as the Griffith Park Zoo), Los Angeles, 1935. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Immature Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
• Prototype of zebras at the California Zoological Gardens (later known as the Griffith Park Zoo), Los Angeles, 1935. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

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