What for you makes a perfect zoo?

A few years ago Animal Planet had a show called "Ultimate Zoos". I wish I would have recorded it and I wish they were still doing it. I enjoy visiting zoos and each zoo seems to have something they do best. I've thought about my favorite exhibits from zoos and which ones I would put together to form MY "Ultimate Zoo". Of the zoos I have visited this is what I have come up with so far:

Best Gorilla exhibit - The Bronx Zoo
Best Grizzly exhibit - Teton Trek at the Memphis Zoo
Best Moose exhibit - The Milwaukee County Zoo
Best Polar Bear exhibit - The Detroit Zoo
Best Red Panda exhibit - The Detroit Zoo
Best "Indoor" Koala exhibit - Gumleaf Hideout at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Best Black Footed Penguin exhibit - Fort Wayne Children's Zoo
Best Elephant exhibit - North Carolina Zoo
Best Snow Leopard exhibit - Binder Park Zoo
Best Sun Bear Exhibit - Columbus Zoo

These are just a start.
 
If only a zoos could have Bronx's Congo Gorilla Forest, Detroit's Artic Ring of Life, San Diego's Lion Camp, Woodland Park's Grizzly Bear Exhibit and Jaguar Cove, Brookfield Zoo's Wolf Woods, Kansas City's Chimpanzee Exhibit, North Carolina's Elephant Exhibit, Zurich's Spectacled Bear Exhibit, Zoo Leipzig's Pongoland, etc.
Those were just off the top of my mind.
 
PaulaKoala said:
A few years ago Animal Planet had a show called "Ultimate Zoos".
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Off-topic, but I wish Animal Planet would actually show programs about animals these days. :rolleyes:

Who honestly cares about the Hand-fishing Hillbillies?! And how long are those fools going to be looking for BigFoot?! :p
 
I know, I've been so disappointed in Animal Planet these days. I wonder if their ratings have dropped. I wish they would focus on mammals more.
 
I think the zoo is perfect if it makes the animals be comfortable and make them perform some of activity instead of making them sit in a cage for the whole day.
 
The perfect zoo attracts people by
keeping the animals in a way that is up-to-date with recent research.
By stunning, ever changing concepts that would help making visitors familiar with and draw them into engagement for conservation.
It prefers quality in the husbandry to quantity in the number of animals.
It respects humans and animals alike, taking observations made by visitors seriously and act accordingly whenever necessary.
It is transparent in all its decisions and makes sure, that an animal sent away, will meet only equal or better conditions.
 
I think the zoo in which animals are treated good, there care is been taken is the perfect zoo.
 
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