visitor expectation

After many months of anticipation, I finally visited the San Diego Zoo for the second time in my life (the first time was around 2010 or 2011 when I was less than 12 years old. While it was nice, I hate to admit it, but overall I sort of found the zoo rather underwhelming and a bit disappointing...

Sometimes, an animal exhibit is very good and always popular among visitors. The same animal in another zoo is just average, although exhibits are about the same size, the same price, and have nothing extraordinary. I wonder why? Do you know such very popular exhibits for average species? Or...

A series of interesting talks given on the future of zoos at the "ISHAR Future of Zoos symposium" (in 2012) in the USA. I think this is quite an interesting set of talks so could of interest to zoochatters. Zoos as resources for scientific research: The future shape and sizes of zoos...