These photos from the Dallas Zoo's monorail remind me of the Asian monorail tour of the Bronx Zoo. Spacious, naturalistic exhibits with lots of hoofstock in wide paddocks. If only these kind of tours were longer...or there were walking trails around the exhibits!
I believe it was designed by the same architect--and uses the same one-sided monorail car concept (hiding views of all the holding buildings and "stuff" on the outside of the monorail loop).
Both are pretty unsatisfying for zoo afficionados who want to spend time looking, but I would guess most visitors just like it because it's "a ride."
