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Aline W. Skaggs Wild Utah I first heard rumblings of a Utah themed exhibit back in 2014. The exhibit was always to be in the eastern portion of the zoo, previously only viewable to guests via the train. By 2014, the zoo had just opened African Savanna – the final project from the zoo’s 2010...

Good Day fellow ZooChatters! I present to you all another one of my reviews and species lists. Last week, I took a little vacation and visited 4 zoological facilities (3 of which were entirely new to me, the 4th was a place I lasted visited over 15 years ago). For this first review, we will be...

A day after visiting the Lee Richardson Zoo and from staying the night in Great Bend, on May 5th, I visited the Great Bend-Brit Spaugh Zoo before heading back to Omaha. This small zoo, opened in 1953, features a decent collection of animals for its size, and shockingly, as with a couple other...

This year for my wife and I's now annual tradition of packing up and heading to visit a couple Kansas zoos over the weekend picked the Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City and the Great Bend-Brit Spaugh Zoo in Great Bend. Living in Omaha, these are two of the farthest ventures into Kansas for us...

Good day fellow ZooChatters! I am back with another zoo review and species list! For this visit, I have had the opportunity to visit America's oldest operating zoo; the Philadelphia Zoo. This is a small-medium sized zoo, around 42 acres, located in the eponymous city. The Zoo is a part of...

Introduction: The Zoo With Two Entrances In November and December 2023, I made a total of four visits to Melbourne Zoo. The first visit was around four hours and I visited my favourite precincts: Gorilla Rainforest, Trail of the Elephants and Lion Gorge; as well as the Main Trail. It would have...

Yesterday, I returned from a ten-day ecotourism trip in Belize, and on the first day of the trip visited the Belize Zoo. While I don't always write reviews when I visit new zoos, since Belize Zoo gets very little attention on Zoo Chat, I figured it was worthwhile to highlight what this facility...

I've been to Bird Paradise more than 10 times over the last year or so, and it was with some shock that I realised that there is no review of the bird park, probably because the more prolific reviewers have yet to arrive to see the park in all its great splendour. However, the park is...

Species list of BXSea as of 25th of December 2023 with some review/words of mine added to it. BXBirds: A small aviary located on BXChange 2's entrance, just after the long as heck tunnel that connects the mall with the Jurangmangu Station, where I came from after taking a train from Kebayoran...

Introduction 2023 has been a great year for Zoochat and zoo nerds in general. What with the opening of Bird Paradise, a number of high quality new exhibits such as Houston's Galapagos complex and Wilhelma's Terra Australis, as well as a number of great threads posted on this site, it cannot be...

There are a lot of caveats before we can get into this. To start with, I went during Holiday Lights. Almost all of the zoo was open, even if a lot of animals weren't outside or visible. Some animals that I know are there from the website and past visits weren't signed. I will still list them in...

This afternoon, I went to the Shore Oceanarium with my sister. This facility is the only aquarium in Melaka. However, it is an atrocious excuse for an aquarium. Although it calls itself an oceanarium, that is probably not the case, and it is probably the worst aquarium to ever grace (or...

SEA LIFE Kelly Tarlton's Aquarium Review (November 2023) I visited Kelly Tarlton’s on 03/11/2023. It was a weekday during term time, which allowed me to avoid the crowds associated with weekends and school holidays and no doubt made for a more pleasurable visit. There was ample free parking...

I'm going to front-load the review section of this thread since there aren't really clear sections for most of the zoo. I went to this one because it's in the AZA's Pathway to Membership program and I didn't want to have to go back to Ontario to visit it if/when it regained accreditation. I...

Okay this one uses slightly different rules than the Toronto Zoo one. I didn’t really try to see every fish species so I don’t note which ones were / weren’t present. I went the evening before Thanksgiving (it was an accident, we use a different day in the USA). It was so crowded I was...

The Heidelberg Zoo is an EAZA accredited zoo in Heidelberg, Germany. It contains 1443 animals of 174 species and was opened to the public on 20 November 1934. I had the pleasure to visit it yesterday and rather liked the place. Most of the exhibits were quite good with the glaring exception of...

Hello Zoochatters, I am back once again yet with another facility review and species list. This is the last of the review/species list threads that I will be posting regarding the (AZA-accredited) zoos and aquariums of Virginia of which I visited on my Virginia Beach trip. As with my previous...

I have been to Lille many times and frequently visit the old town and nearby Parc de la Citadelle. However, this year, when I was planning where to go in Lille, I realized that I had not been to Lille Zoo. Since it had black-faced ibis and other neotropical animals not found near where I live...

Hello Zoochatters, I am back again yet with another facility review and species list. This is the 2nd of 3 review/species list threads that I will be posting regarding the (AZA-accredited) zoos and aquariums of Virginia. As with my previous thread, I will give a brief overview and review of...

Hello Zoochatters, I am back with another facility review and species list. This will be the first of 3 review/species list threads that I will be posting in the coming days/weeks (depending on when I have time) regarding the (AZA-accredited) zoos and aquariums of Virginia. As with my previous...