I'm curious. Does anybody know of cities with multiple zoos?

Mickey said:
Plzen also has 2, the zoo and the much less famous Akva Tera
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AkvaTera is simply a second (dislocated) location of Zoo Plzen. Its animals are included in animal inventory of the zoo´s annual report.

Such arrangement is not rare where a landscape zoo situated in suburbs runs an indoor small fish+reptile exhibit in busy downtown. Decin zoo has its own Rajske Ostrovy. Brno zoo used to run an aquarium in city centre for decades but it´s closed down. Zoo Košice (Slovakia) opened ZOODOM just last year.
 
Jana said:
AkvaTera is simply a second (dislocated) location of Zoo Plzen. Its animals are included in animal inventory of the zoo´s annual report.

Such arrangement is not rare where a landscape zoo situated in suburbs runs an indoor small fish+reptile exhibit in busy downtown. Decin zoo has its own Rajske Ostrovy. Brno zoo used to run an aquarium in city centre for decades but it´s closed down. Zoo Košice (Slovakia) opened ZOODOM just last year.
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I know that, that's why I'd argue all these make up a secondary facility in each of their cities, even if inventory is shared, such as the New York and San Diego zoos
 
I am surprised that no-one has mentioned the city of Hull, given it has at least four the big one being the Deep aquarium,followed by East park animal centre, West park aviary and finally Pickering park aviary, although pre COVID there used to be one at Pearson park conservatory.
 
The Haifa region has two--the Haifa Educational Zoo, a small but very nice selection and as it's on Mt. Carmel, it has a spectacular view. The suburb of Kiryat Motzkin also has a small zoo.

Detroit has the main zoo and there's a Reptarium in a suburb which I haven't seen.
 
Durham, North Carolina technically also qualifies as they have the Museum of Life and Sciences (which is AZA-accredited) and the Duke Lemur Center (which is AZA-certified if I remember correctly). However, the latter requires reserving a tour.
 
Alex Bensky said:
Detroit has the main zoo and there's a Reptarium in a suburb which I haven't seen.
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yeah, the Reptarium (and soon with LegaSea Aquarium) is in Utica, a suburb of Detroit. They have weird hours now though, closed Monday and Tuesday and open 4:00PM - 8PM the other days (3-8 on Sunday). There is also the Belle Isle Aquarium in Detroit proper, it is quite small (but very historic) and open Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10AM-4PM.
 
Nile Hippo Expert said:
Here is a list of all the cities with multiple major zoos in the US that I can think of:
- San Diego (San Diego Zoo, San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and SeaWorld San Diego)
- Phoenix (Phoenix Zoo and Wildlife World Zoo)
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My only gripes here would be that Wildlife World is a full 27 miles away from Phoenix in Litchfield Park, and San Diego Zoo Safari Park is even further from SD, 32 miles away in Escondido. If it's just like, a difference in neighborhoods or boroughs, I wouldn't question it - but as a Californian, Escondido is a very different city than San Diego haha.
 
Montgomery, Alabama technically has two zoos, with the city-owned Montgomery Zoo, and the Alabama Safari Park a 15-minute-drive out of city limits. Montgomery Zoo seems to really be improving as of late, but their hoofstock collection pales in comparison to Alabama Safari Park’s.
 
Utahraptor said:
Both São Paulo and Rio have a aquarium and a zoo ( plus instituto Butantan on SP, which is considered a zoo).
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Hello.

Rio de Janeiro has two zoos (BioParque do Rio and Arca do Noah (this one is more like a mix between a zoo and a farm park, to be honest, but is is a member of our own version of the AZA), a farm park (Fazendinha Rio) and an aquarium (AquaRio).

Aparecida, home to the world's second largest church (behind Saint Peter's Basilica) has a small aquarium and a park with a walkthrough aviary.

São José dos Campos has (or at least used to have) a serpentarium at their main university. However, I am sure the city still has its own butterfly park.

São Paulo is home to a zoo (Zoo SP), an aquarium, an petting zoo (Na Floresta SP), a farm park (Fazendinha Estação Natureza), a herptile museum (Instituto Butantan), an insect zoo (Planeta Inseto), a butterfly park and a public park with an aquarium on its grounds (Parque da Água Branca).

There is a zoo with a theme park in Cotia (Animália Park). There is also a farm park called PetZoo.

Piracicaba has a zoo and an aquarium.

The zoo in Belo Horizonte has an aquarium on its grounds. I am quite sure there is another aquarium somewhere in the city.

Curitiba has a zoo and a public park that still has a few wild animals (Passeio Público). The latter used to be the city zoo before the 1980s, when most of the bigger creatures were moved to the current location.

Foz do Iguaçu is home to three of South America's best zoos: Refúgio Biológico Bela Vista, Parque das Aves and EcoParque Foz/Dreams EcoPark.

A zoo (Complexo Ambiental Cyro Gevaerd) and an aquarium (Oceanic Aquarium) call Balneário Camboriú home.

Aracaju has a zoo, a falcon park and an oceanarium.

Three small zoos call Belém home: Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (albeit this one is also a museum), Bosque Rodrigues Alves and Mangal das Garças.

Manaus has two zoos (CIGS zoo) and Bosque da Ciência.

Lisbon (Portugal) has a zoo and two aquariums (Oceanário de Lisboa and Aquário Vasco da Gama)

Porto/Vila Nova de Gaia/Avintes have three zoos in total: Zoo Santo Inácio, Parque Biológico de Gaia and SEA LIFE Porto.
 
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Daktari JG said:
I have a brother that lives in Mesa. I'm pretty sure that every part of Phoenix is at least 27 miles from every other part of Phoenix. :)
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Lmao fair enough. It is one massive metro area, just having been to WWZA, that area is very much on the outskirts/not even really connected to that metro. But you’re not wrong :p
 
KingOfTheU said:
If you stretch the definition of 'city' to the absolute limit, the Twin Cities have Como and the Minnesota Zoo.
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You do not have to stretch the definition of city for that :p. Yeah it's technically two cities but in practice it really isn't. There's a number of smaller zoos in the area too, most notably what is probably the highest quality Sea Life location.
 
Highly recommend Sea Life Minnesota. It’s legitimately a top 20-25 aquarium in the US, which is insane to say in comparison to all the others of the SL chain. The main reason is that all Sea Life really did is buy out the existing infrastructure of the old UnderWater World attraction and remodel it to their liking, allowing them to have a vastly superior collection there versus all their other facilities. Smart move on their part though.
 
No one's mentioned Melbourne, Australia, which has Melbourne Zoo, Werribee Open Range Zoo and Melbourne Aquarium.
 
decat said:
No one's mentioned Melbourne, Australia, which has Melbourne Zoo, Werribee Open Range Zoo and Melbourne Aquarium.
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Also in Australia, Adelaide has Adelaide Zoo and Monarto Safari Park, and Sydney has Sydney Zoo and Taronga Zoo Sydney. However, the Taronga Western Plains Zoo is not in Sydney or its metropolitan area, despite the similar name, it is 250 miles/400km away in Dubbo (about a four hour drive).
 
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