Thanks, Zooboy. The farm/zoo I visited about 25 years ago could have been built on the site of Grahame Dangerfield's site and could have become the Willows Activity Farm (Willows Activity Farm | Day Out With The Kids)
Name a zoo which no other zoochatter visited!
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Sorry, no I didn't. There was a puma enclosure on the outside. Inside, there was a sleeping northern olingo; according to ZTL, Exmouth was one of only ZTL to have this species. The only other zoo where I've seen an olingo was at Kilverstone.
Myself and former Zoochatter, Zoogiraffe have visited this aquarium.
I have actually! As a child so I don't remember much of it barring vague memories (scimitar-horned oryx, hyena in a tiny cage and bison I think among others).
I have a feeling I am the only Zoochatter to have visited Wolf Hollow (also known as the North American Wolf Foundation) located in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
cornu aspersum
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I might be the only zoochatter to visit Rohtak zoo. A small zoo in India with terrible contusions but despite that was apparently supposed to be an improvement over some other zoos in the area. I visited it when I was small so it might've changed. I also might be the only person to visit Nainital zoo which is pretty decent but not world class by any means.
Zhao yun
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Oh, and white-Striped dorocopsis.
The gallery would imply that no Zoochatter has ever visited Parimaribo zoo in Suriname, seeing that the whole of the Guyanas isn't included in the gallery (not empty folders, mind you. The folders don't exist!). My last visit has been quite a few years ago now so I don't currently have any photos, but I hope to change that somewhere next year!
I don’t think any other ZooChatter has been to the Mitchell Park Zoo in Durban, South Africa or the Lowry Nature Center in Victoria, Minnesota.
toastrgophr
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Given that there is absolutely nothing in Media, my best shot at a zoo that only I have been to is the Victoria Bug Zoo. Its basically an insect house in the middle of downtown Victoria. They have constantly running guided tours through the place that you can just join and follow along with for as long as you like. They are really big on allowing visitors to hold their animals, whether it be tarantulas, millipedes or stick insects. A great little facility!
toastrgophr
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I have also been to Pacific Undersea Gardens, another place that has nothing in Media. It was basically an aquarium underwater in the city harbour whose tanks were basically sectioned off areas of the ocean floor. I have never been anywhere quite like it, but it was closed in 2013 due to age and the high cost of improvements that would be required to bring it up to code.
I might be the only Zoochatter to go to Hawk Creek Wildlife Center in East Aurora, NY, as I know I'm the only one to post in that gallery and it's seldom discussed on here. While there are photos in the gallery by two others in 2017, I'm probably one of very few to visit the VIA Aquarium in Schenectady, NY- another small facility that is seldom mentioned.
One of the most-traveled members on here lives near Vancouver, so I imagine he's been to anything that's existed in BC
@snowleopard
One of the most-traveled members on here lives near Vancouver, so I imagine he's been to anything that's existed in BC
@TinoPup knows me all too well! I've visited 19 zoos in British Columbia, although a great many of these are really tiny places.
Greater Vancouver Zoo (Aldergrove, BC)
B.C. Wildlife Park (Kamloops, BC)
Mountain View Conservation Centre (Langley, BC) – now closed
Victoria Bug Zoo (Victoria, BC)
North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre (Errington, BC)
O.W.L. (Orphaned Wildlife) Rehabilitation Society (Delta, BC)
Stanley Park Zoo (Vancouver, BC) - now closed
Kangaroo Creek Farm (Kelowna, BC)
Grouse Mountain Wildlife Refuge (Vancouver, BC)
Rainforest Reptile Refuge (Surrey, BC) – now closed
Victoria Butterfly Gardens (Brentwood Bay, BC)
Northern Lights Wildlife Wolf Centre (Golden, BC)
Butterfly World & Gardens (Coombs, BC)
The Reptile Guy: Rescue & Education Center (Abbotsford, BC) - now moved to Mission
Bloedel Conservatory (Vancouver, BC)
Parrot Island Sanctuary (Peachland, BC)
Vancouver Aquarium (Vancouver, BC)
Shaw Ocean Discovery Center (Sidney, BC) - now called Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea
Ucluelet Aquarium (Ucluelet, BC)
toastrgophr
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I am noticing a lack of Pacific Undersea Gardens from that list
To my surprise, I actually do seem to have a "unique to me" facility
Lori Patton
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I went to Lion Country Safari in California when I was a kid. It is listed on this site, but there are no pictures. The park closed 40 years ago so I don't know if anyone currently on ZooChat has been there. I have also been to several nature centers with live animals in California that are not listed on this site, including:
- Desert Tortoise Research Natural Area -- accessible via a dirt road in the Mojave desert and the only tortoises I saw were in cages displayed at the entrance
- Placerita Canyon Nature Center -- animals included a desert tortoise, red-tailed hawk, raven, and turkey vulture
- Eaton Canyon Nature Center -- various reptiles and amphibians
- Channel Islands National Park Visitor Center in Ventura -- tide pool touch exhibit with sea stars and related marine life
I've been to the Pacific Undersea Gardens that once existed in Newport, Oregon, but I've never been to the version in Victoria's harbour. You've got me on that one...haha! It's kind of a shame that those two aquariums are now long gone.