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Los Angeles Zoo
In 1956, the city of Los Angeles had passed the small Griffith Park Zoo. Citizens approved a bond measure of $ 6.6 million to help build a new and a 113-acre site in Griffith Park was chosen as the new location. In 1964, a private, nonprofit was created to support the new installation. The zoo then began raising money and acquiring animals
When the Los Angeles Zoo opened in 1966 was the zoo from 4 to serve the city. The Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association (Glaza) had already graduated from a training class, volunteer teachers and has produced Several issues of a quarterly magazine called Zoo View. Some 80,000 attended the opening Angeles November Los Angeles Zoo (also in attendance was an alligator named Methuselah, which is still a resident of the zoo today).
In 1967 the zoo acquired 3 endangered Arabian Oryx $ 75,000. The Los Angeles Zoo collaborated with the only other American zoo to house Oryx, Phoenix Zoo, bred successfully the gazelle-like animals that face extinction in the wild. Today the descendants of the animals have been reintroduced into the wild in Israel, and other descendants of that herd of origin living in the zoo Zoo.
1 The Los Angeles Zoo Beastly Ball was held in 1970. This safari-themed dinner-dance is a major fundraiser for the zoo, but visitors can only eat and in the interest of health and safety, the zoo Los Angeles was 1 major zoo in the United States to prohibit visitors from feeding the animals, and remains the policy today.
The Los Angeles Zoo became an accredited member of the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) in 1972. Just 2 years after Dr. Warren D. Thomas became the director of the zoo.
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Thomas assembled one of the world 's most respecteded animal collections during his 17 years in office. The zoo acquired rare and endangered species including the Sumatran rhino, the Jentink and Zebra duikers, yellow-footed rock wallabies, giant elands, gerenuks, emperor tamarin, and bongos. The Andrew Norman Education Center, the ZooMobile, Wolf Woods and Monkey Island, were built in the Thomas-era1970, as were new exhibits for gorillas, orangutans and flamingoes,
In the 1980s, the Zoo became part of the new Condor Recovery Program in California. In 1982, Zoo built the extensive "condorminiums" which are still considered among the finest and largest facilities in the recovery program condor. In1982 Ahmanson Koala House opened. Currently, the Los Angeles Zoo the only zoo in the world to exhibit these nocturnal animals in a dark setting.
Today Los Angeles Zoo is located in the heart of the 2nd largest city in the United States. About 11 / 2 million visitors visit the zoo each year to see one of the largest and finest collection of animals.
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