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I go to the zoo at least once a year. Honestly, it's not my favorite thing to do in the world, but I enjoy it to some extent, and my wife loves it. And I'm happy to indulge her.
I live in the St. Louis area, so that's the zoo we go to, when we go. It gets compared to San Diego Zoo quite often. I've been to San Diego Zoo as well, and I think it's bigger as far as land mass...but St. Louis Zoo IS a nice zoo.
I think my favorite is the Penguin and Puffin house.
Zoos are prisons for innocent animals. Zoos have such an atmosphere of profoundly deep despair and misery about them, they are unbearable for me to visit ever again.
I am very hopeful that we'll be enjoying them soon in retirement. Over the years, we visited the one in Wichita, in Topeka, Manhattan and also the Emporia Zoo, which is a small zoo that is donation only and has beautiful plants and flowers. (The shade helps on warmer days.) We also went to a zoo in greater Phoenix and also Tucson. Years ago, we went to the zoo in Omaha, and it was great at that time.
As a kid, we watch the Ray Rayner show, and he would have a guy from the zoo in Chicago on the show at regular intervals.
My dad always loved to go to the zoos in Indiana, one in South Bend and one in Michigan City, but this was decades ago. He and my mother loved animals, and that love was passed on to my brother and I.
I would love to go through one of the drive through wildlife parks. We'll see what I can get done in retirement, as I do not plan to sit like most and wait for the grim reaper!
Zoos are prisons for innocent animals. Zoos have such an atmosphere of profoundly deep despair and misery about them, they are unbearable for me to visit ever again.
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The good ones focus on species preservation and education, so... not really. Many of them also act as rehabs, taking in the animals who wouldn't survive in the wild.
Thanks for sharing! I never got to see that the last time I was at that park because that part wasn't in operation at the time.
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