The back is top 20 specialist facilities. What does Blank Park specialize in that makes it have something standard zoos don't have? (Not being sarcastic, this is an honest question as I have not been there).
Depends what you mean by specialize
By rare species it does have a few interesting ones including eland, plumbed whistling ducks, Australian wood ducks, and silver eared meisas.
In terms of unique exhibits they have the Discovery Center which is a rainforest/aquarium.
And in terms of successful breeders, they have giraffe, snow monkey, black rhino, and lion programs.
The main attractions of this zoo is the main "Discovery Center" with tropical birds, coral reef fish, red pandas, caimans, ect., the Australian walk with wallabies, emus, cassowaries and birds, a large children's zoo, an African Exhibit with giraffes, zebras, eland, rhinos, watusi and I believe okapi, howeverI believe the one that had is dead, lions, tigers, snow monkeys, penguins, and seals/sea lions
I know it's not the most exciting zoo, and I honestly sometimes am embarrassed to say it's my "local" zoo. I live in a relatively rural community and most of the folks here very rarely visit zoos, but when they do it's always Omaha. (We're pretty much stuck in the middle of these two cities.) I would much rather prefer to say Omaha is my "local zoo" due to the fact it's "world class", but I still have fond memories of going to this medium sized zoo when we'd visit our grandparents before moving here. I was just expecting it to get in due to the fact is was in the "best of the rest" in America's Best Zoos. However, times have changed and defiantly some smaller zoos have rose to the top.
