San Diego Zoo
San Diego Zoo | |
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San Diego, California, U.S. | |
Land area | 99 acres (40 ha)[1] |
No. of animals | 3,700+[1] |
No. of species | 650+ (incl. subspecies)[1] |
Annual visitors | 4 million (2018)[2] |
Memberships | AZA,[3] AAM,[4] WAZA[5] |
Major exhibits | Absolutely Apes, Children's Zoo, Elephant Odyssey, Panda Trek, Lost Forest, Monkey Trails, Polar Bear Plunge |
Public transit access | San Diego Metropolitan Transit System Bus Route 7; Rapid Bus 215 |
Website | zoo |
The San Diego Zoo is a
The San Diego Zoo was a pioneer in the concept of open-air, cageless exhibits that recreate natural animal habitats.[9] For decades, the zoo housed and successfully bred giant pandas,[10] with the largest giant panda population outside China, before the pandas were repatriated to China in 2019.[11]
With more than 4 million visitors in 2018,[2] San Diego Zoo is the most visited zoo in the United States.[12][13] Travelers have also cited it as one of the best zoos in the world.[14][15] The San Diego Zoo is an accredited member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), and the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA). The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance also operates the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.
History
The San Diego Zoo grew out of exotic animal exhibitions abandoned after the 1915
"Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a zoo in San Diego? I believe I'll build one."
— Harry M. Wegeforth, after hearing a lion roar at the 1915 Panama–California Exposition[16][17][18]
A permanent tract of land in Balboa Park was set aside in August 1921; on the advice of the city attorney, it was agreed that the city would own all the animals and the zoo would manage them.[19] The zoo began to move in the following year. In addition to the animals from the Exposition, the zoo acquired a menagerie from the defunct Wonderland Amusement Park.[19] Ellen Browning Scripps financed a fence around the zoo so that it could begin charging an entrance fee to offset costs.[20] The publication ZooNooz commenced in early 1925.
Animal collector
After several other equally short-lived zoo directors, Wegeforth appointed the zoo's bookkeeper, Belle Benchley, to the position of executive secretary, in effect zoo director; she was given the actual title of zoo director a few years later. She served as zoo director from 1925 until 1953.[22] For most of that time she was the only female zoo director in the world.[22] She was succeeded as director by Dr. Charles Schroeder.
The San Diego Zoo was a pioneer in building "cageless" exhibits.[20] Wegeforth was determined to create moated exhibits from the start, and the first lion area at the San Diego Zoo without enclosing wires opened in 1922.[23]
Until the 1960s, admission for children under 16 was free, regardless of whether they were accompanied by a paying adult.
The zoo's Center for Reproduction of
The world's only albino koala in a zoological facility was born September 1, 1997, at the San Diego Zoo and was named Onya-Birri, which means "ghost boy" in an
In 2014, a colony of African penguins arrived for the first time in the zoo since 1979. They have since moved into Africa Rocks when it opened in 2017.
In 2016, Baba, the last pangolin on display in North America at the time, died at the zoo.[26]
In October 2020, two gorillas charged at the glass of their enclosure, damaging the outer pane.
Escapes
The San Diego Zoo has had a number of notable escapees through the years; the most noteworthy of them is Ken Allen, a Bornean orangutan who came to be known as "the hairy Houdini", for his many escapes.[27]
In 1940, a
In 1977, an animal control officer for the County of San Diego, Tom Van Wagner, a previous employee of the San Diego Zoo as a tour bus guide, captured a Tasmanian devil escapee in a south central San Diego home's garage. The animal was transported to the zoo and the zoo hospital staff took possession of the capture.[citation needed]
In March 2013, the zoo, which was hosting a private party at the time, had to initiate a lockdown when two striped hyenas somehow got past their barriers. They were "darted with a sedative and taken to the veterinary care clinic."[30]
In 2014, a koala named Mundu escaped to a neighboring tree just outside its Koalafornia Australia Outback enclosure. Zookeepers lured him down the tree once the park closed that day.[31]
In early 2015, two Wolf's guenons monkeyed around outside of their Lost Forest enclosure after escaping. One of the monkeys neared a fence line off of Route 163, but was brought back to safety without injury.[32]
Adira is a 2-year-old female red panda, who also happens to be an escape artist. Over in Panda Canyon, Adira scaled a tree in her enclosure and escaped for 6 hrs on January 29, 2023. Luckily, Adira stayed close to home and was easily led back into her enclosure. A zoo social media account speculated, "January is the start of the panda's breeding season, which one could speculate may have been the reason for the jailbreak."[33] The San Diego Zoo is currently breeding the red pandas because of their status being labeled endangered on the IUCN Red List, there is thought to be less than 10,000 left in the world. Adira and Lucas said hello to their first little cub on June 9, 2023, this is the first baby red panda since 2006 for the San Diego Zoo. The hope for saving red pandas has also sparked lots of attention from the people because of the new movie Turning Red, which highlights red pandas as its main character and theme.[34]
Features
The zoo offers a guided tour bus that traverses 75% of the park.
Exhibits at the zoo are often designed around a particular
The San Diego Zoo also operates the San Diego Zoo Safari Park (formerly the San Diego Wild Animal Park, located 30 miles northeast of the Zoo in Escondido), a nearly 2k-acre park that features animals in more expansive, open areas than the zoo's urban 100 acres can provide. Exhibits are themed mainly around Asia, Africa and Australia, with the five largest being 100- to 200-acre "savannas"; these mixed-species field exhibits feature grassy rolling hills, canyons, lakes, and rocky outcrops to give the animals a more naturalistic, enriching home. This approach has brought the Safari Park much breeding success, and (in an effort to maintain fresh bloodlines) animals are regularly relocated between the two locations. The San Diego facilities also actively exchange animals with other zoos around the world, in accordance with Species Survival Plan (SSP) recommendations.
San Diego has one of the world's largest and most diverse animal collections; however, the total number of animal species in the collection has been reduced somewhat over the past two decades (2000–2020), from around 860 to approximately 650. This comes as exhibits are redeveloped into more spacious, naturalistic areas, and as a number of animals are transitioned to the Safari Park.
The temperate, sunny maritime climate of California is well suited to many plants and animals. Besides an extensive collection of birds, reptiles, and mammals, it also maintains its grounds as an arboretum, with a rare plant collection. The zoo is also an accredited botanical garden; the botanical collection includes more than 700,000 exotic plants.[37] As part of its gardening effort, some rare animal foods are grown at the zoo. For example, 40 varieties of bamboo were raised for the pandas when they were at the zoo on long-term loan from China. It also maintains 18 varieties of eucalyptus trees to feed its koalas.
Keepers and most other employees at the San Diego Zoo are members of
Exhibits
Monkey Trail and Forest Tales
Monkey Trails showcases primates and other animals native to the tropical rainforests of Asia and Africa. Opening in 2005,[39] it replaced a decades-old area of exhibits known as Ape and Bird Mesa. These were some of the oldest animal "houses" still in use (at the time) at the San Diego Zoo, being built in the 1930s, with little to no change until demolition for Monkey Trails. In addition to a few small bird aviaries and a troop of siamang apes living on a treehouse in the center of a pond, the site was centered around two square buildings; these plain structures contained many small exhibits lined up, one after another, on all four sides. One of the buildings was focused on monkeys, while the other was mainly songbirds, parrots, and tropical avian species. There had been a few efforts at landscaping these cages; however, the monkeys notably lived in bleak, "prison-cell" like cages. A number of Zoo members and guests left comments over the years regarding the exhibits and their lack of plant life, the (apparent) lack of enrichment for the monkeys and, mostly, the appearance of cement "cell blocks" as exhibits.
Monkey Trails is home primarily to monkeys such as the
Throughout the walking paths, visitors can also see
Owens Aviary
The Owens Aviary contains about 200 individual tropical birds from around 45 species, mainly from Australasia, Oceania and Papua New Guinea. The aviary is built onto the side of an approx. 60' high canyon wall, being accessible via an entry/exit at the uppermost level and another at the lower end of the aviary (essentially the canyon floor). The walkway inside the aviary connects these entryways as it ascends and descends with the natural slope. The naturally steep location proves to be perfect for the exhibit's waterfall, which cascades downhill through the aviary before splashing down into a large pond. The ambient white noise of the waterfall is quite noticeable, but relaxing and tranquil, rather than very loud. The waterfall churns up mist, and a cool steam fills the aviary with ambient humidity; additionally, the outside of the structure is painted a dark green color, which helps to block any excess sunlight from penetrating inside. This further gives visitors the feeling of walking through a lush, dense jungle.
The entire aviary is lushly landscaped and thick with palms, ficus,
Scripps Aviary
The Scripps Aviary was built in 1923
Parker Aviary
The Parker Aviary houses various birds from South America including
Asian Passage
The San Diego Zoo had been one of four zoos in the U.S. which has had giant pandas on display, and had been the most successful in terms of panda reproduction.[citation needed] The first two giant panda cubs in U.S. history to have been born in the U.S. and survive into adulthood—Hua Mei (female, born to Bai Yun and Shi Shi) and Mei Sheng (male, born to Bai Yun and Gao Gao)—were born at the zoo, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. After that, three more giant panda cubs—Su Lin and Zhen Zhen (both females) and Yun Zi (male)[44]—were born to the resident giant panda parents Bai Yun and Gao Gao.[45] Xiao Liwu (meaning "little gift"), was born on July 29, 2012, and was let outside for visitors to see on January 9, 2013.[46] By 2015, all of the cubs had been sent back to China to participate in the breeding program there.[47][48]
By April 2019, the giant panda exhibit had closed. The pandas in the enclosure had been repatriated to China after successfully serving its conservation mission.[49] Since the closing of Panda Trek, the exhibit had been repurposed to display other Chinese animals, including golden takins, red pandas, Mang Mountain pit vipers, Amur leopards, snow leopards and an exhibit comparing several types of bamboo.[citation needed]
In November 1984, the Chinese Wildlife Protection Association, the Ministry of Urban and Rural Construction and Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Forestry and the Chengdu Zoo formed a Chinese delegation to the United States to carry a pair of Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys to the San Diego Zoo for a 13-day exhibition of snub-nosed monkeys. This was the first time that golden snub-nosed monkeys were exhibited abroad.[50]
In November 2023, China's President Xi Jinping hinted at the return of giant pandas to the zoo as a "gesture that China is ready to continue cooperation with the U.S. on panda conservation."[51][52]
Urban Jungle
The Urban Jungle houses different animals including a small herd of Masai giraffes, Soemmerring's gazelles, American flamingos, a Grant's zebra, a miniature donkey and cheetahs. Many of the Zoo's animal ambassadors live there including a binturong, fennec foxes and Cape porcupines.
Polar Bear Plunge
Polar Bear Plunge, which opened in 1996,[53] and was renovated in March 2010, houses over 30 species representing the Arctic. The main animals in the area are the three polar bears, named Kalluk, Chinook, and Tatqiq. More animals that make their home in the Plunge include reindeer, Canada lynxes, raccoons, and black-billed magpies. An underwater viewing area is available to observe the polar bears swimming in their 130,000-US-gallon (490,000 L) pool.[53]
Farther down the path lies an aviary with several species of
Just up the path of Polar Bear Plunge is Northwest passage, housing
Wildlife Explorers Basecamp
Opened in 2022, the Wildlife Explorers Basecamp was built on the site of the historic Sanford's Children's Zoo, allowing children to get closer to several animals and also includes interactive play opportunities and sculptures.[55] There are 4 main zones in the basecamp that feature wildlife that live in the 4 main ecosystems: Desert Dunes, Wild Woods, Marsh Meadows, and The Rainforest.[56]
The Rainforest includes
Hummingbird Habitat
A small aviary that, as of July 2022,[58] includes three species of hummingbirds, the Anna's, Costa's, and Amazilia hummingbirds, along with other birds from South America such as bananaquits, crested quail-doves, golden-collared manakins, blue-necked tanagers, green-backed trogons, opal-rumped tanagers, paradise tanagers, swallow tanagers, turquoise tanagers, screaming pihas, violaceous euphonias, green honeycreepers, purple honeycreepers, red pileated finches, spangled cotingas and pompadour cotingas. Guests can view the birds from an observation bridge, and the aviary also includes a cenote pool.[59] Wattled jacanas can also be seen in the aviary.
Spineless Marvels
The McKinney Spineless Marvels features
Cool Critters
This two-story building houses fish, invertebrates, reptiles and amphibians. Some of the species housed here are
Reptile Walk
Previously called Reptile Mesa, the Reptile Walk houses small outdoor yards, one housing European species like
Walking down the path leads to a building split in two. One side contains terrariums for amphibians such as the
The walkway then passes an enclosure for the endangered
Nearby is the gharial pond. Various turtles like Indian flapshell turtles, Indian narrow-headed softshell turtles, northern river terrapins, painted terrapins and others are also housed with the gharials.
Concluding the Reptile Walk are yards housing Asian forest tortoises, African spurred tortoises, blue iguanas, Jamaican iguanas, Galápagos tortoises and leopard tortoises.[60]
Reptile House
This is a renowned Spanish-influence structure. As of July 2022,,
Lost Forest
Based upon the real
After the hippos, the path passes through a bunch of bamboo before reaching a clearing where aviaries have housed emerald starlings and other species.[65] A thatched-roof gift shop and a food stand are located in a plaza near by.[61][66][67] Immediately to the right is an exhibit with red river hogs, Allen's swamp monkeys, red-tailed monkeys and spotted-necked otters.[61][68] The plaza leads to a bridge flanked by the red river hog exhibit on one side and an exhibit that only the monkeys and otters can access on the other.[69][70] Across the bridge is a creek where the otters can swim, with viewing both above and below the water's surface.[71] Afterwards, the path joins the rest of the zoo.[72]
Elephant Odyssey
This exhibit opened on May 23, 2009, on the site of the former Hoof and Horn Mesa area, and was met with mixed reviews. The main feature of the exhibit is the 2.5-acre (10,000 m2) elephant habitat—more than three times the size of the zoo's former elephant exhibit Elephant Mesa (now the "Urban Jungle" exhibit area). Currently a herd of five, the herd includes three females and two twin brothers. It consists of a blended herd of three
.The Fossil Portal is an artificial
Next is an exhibit for
Gorilla Tropics
Simulating the
Absolutely Apes
This exhibit opened in 2003, as a major renovation of the former "Whittier Southeast Asian Exhibits", which had opened in 1982. It houses three female Sumatran orangutans and one male infant named Karen, Indah, Aisha and Kaja (a Bornean orangutan was also kept here; Aisha and Kaja are the offspring of Indah) and even three siamangs named Unkie, Eloise and their daughter Selamat in an 8,400-square-foot (780 m2) exhibit,[77] which is flanked by a 110-foot (34 m) glass viewing window.[78]
The exhibit provides sway poles and artificial trees for the
also reside in this area.Sun Bear Forest
This $3.5 million exhibit opened in 1989, and exhibits Bornean sun bears, Angola colobus and François' langurs.[81] One end of the 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) complex houses lion-tailed macaques in a grassy exhibit with a stream and climbing ropes. The oblong sun bear exhibit straddles the path along the rest of the complex, and an aviary houses some species of birds,[81] including Asian fairy-bluebird and Red-billed leiothrix.[82] Farther down the path, visitors can see grizzly bears, sloth bears, spectacled bears and aye-ayes.
Tiger Trail
Tiger Trail, located in a sloping canyon, opened in 1988 and houses three Malayan tiger brothers named Conner, the eldest, and twins, Cinta and Berani.[83] From the top of the canyon, the path first goes through a pavilion with a pool home to Siamese crocodiles. It proceeds to another pavilion, this time flanked by the a bunch of aviaries which feature Asian fairy-bluebirds, Baikal teals, blue-crowned laughingthrushes, Edwards's pheasants, common emerald doves, tricolored parrotfinch, red-billed leiothrix, and there are also exhibits for fishing cats and rare coconut crabs.
Farther down the canyon is an exhibit for Malayan tapirs, North Sulawesi babirusas, Indian pythons and the 1⁄4-acre (0.10 ha) tiger habitat, which has a hillside stream, waterfall, and glass viewing window.[83] The Tiger Trail area of the zoo, when dedicated in 1988 as 'Tiger River', replaced an exhibit area that was known as Cascade Canyon, which had opened in 1973.[42]
Outback
A new Australian Outback area, nicknamed "Koalafornia", opened in May 2013. The San Diego Zoo has the largest koala colony outside of Australia and the largest collection of Australian wildlife in America. It has twice as much exhibit space for koalas, including more outdoor enclosures based on a realization that koalas need sun exposure for their health.
The new area includes other Australian marsupials, such as
Africa Rocks
Conrad Prebys's Africa Rocks highlights the biodiversity of Africa. The exhibit opened on July 1, 2017, but was not completed until December 6, 2017. The exhibit cost US$60 million to construct. The money was donated to the zoo by 3,800 donors.[86][87] Africa Rocks replaced Dog and Cat Canyon, which featured grottos that were built in the 1930s.
The exhibit features the following six habitats:
Cape Fynbos
The Cape Fynbos exhibit features African penguins, an endangered species native to South Africa. The exhibit was designed to mimic the giant granite boulders that are found on Boulders Beach in South Africa, a place where these birds live. The 70 ft (21 m) long and 10 ft (3.0 m) wide habitat also includes a 200,000 US gal (757,080 L; 166,535 imp gal) pool for the penguins that stretches 170 ft (52 m), with depths up to 13 ft (4.0 m). Along with the large pool, the exhibit features a cobblestone beach and a nesting area. A group of 20 penguins moved in on June 22, 2017, to get ready for when the exhibit opened on July 1, 2017.
The penguins also share their exhibit with leopard sharks among other fish. Twelve leopard sharks arrived on June 23, 2017, from SeaWorld San Diego. The sharks were introduced to their exhibit and their penguin neighbors on Wednesday, June 28, 2017. The sharks range in age from 5 to 20. African penguins do not live alongside leopard sharks in the wild; however, they do live with similar shark species. Leopard sharks feed on crustaceans on the bottom floor and do not pose a threat to the penguins.[88]
Acacia Woodland
The
The aviary in this exhibit features two species of
Madagascar Forest
The Madagascar Forest exhibit features lemur species that the Association of Zoos and Aquariums' (AZA) Prosimian Taxon Advisory Group (TAG) has identified as needing sustainability assistance for the North American population, including blue-eyed black, red ruffed, red-collared, ring-tailed lemurs and Coquerel's sifakas.
Along with lemurs, the Madagascar Forest exhibit houses the lemurs' main predator the fossa as well as honey badgers.[90]
Ethiopian Highlands
The Ethiopian Highlands exhibit houses two primate species: the gelada and the hamadryas baboon. The San Diego Zoo is only the second zoo in North America to house geladas, the other facility being the Bronx Zoo. An all-male troop of geladas arrived on September 7, 2016, from the Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart, Germany. This move was based by the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums' (EAZA) European Endangered Species Programme (EEP) for geladas—the European equivalent of an Association of Zoos and Aquariums' (AZA) Species Survival Plan (SSP) program. The bachelor group will be introduced to females later on. The exhibit is also home to Nubian ibexes.[91]
Kopje
The word
West African Forest
The West African Forest exhibits the
Conservation
The zoo is active in conservation and species-preservation efforts. Its Institute for Conservation Research (formerly the Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species) raises California condors,
As a result, they have reintroduced more than 30 endangered species back into the wild, and have conserved habitat at 50 field sites. They also have over 200 conservation scientists working in 35 countries around the world. It employs numerous professional geneticists, cytologists, and veterinarians and maintains a cryopreservation facility for rare sperm and eggs called the frozen zoo.
The San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research is the largest zoo-based multidisciplinary research effort in the world. Based at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Conservation Research adjacent to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, more than 200 dedicated scientists carry out research vital to the conservation of animals, plants, and habitats, locally and internationally.[94]
Zoo Corps
Zoo Corps is a volunteer program at the San Diego Zoo that enlists high school students to teach guests at the zoo about the animals they are seeing and their place in the ecosystem. It enrolls students between 13 and 17 years of age. The goals are to promote
The program uses a series of "Kits", which are set on tables throughout the zoo. The kits contain objects that can be used to explain why an animal is endangered or to shed light on the animal's lifestyle. The four kits are "Backyard Habitats", "Saving Species", "Animal Care", and "Sustainability".
Architecture
Local architect Louis John Gill designed the original buildings, cages and animal grottos and later in 1926, the Spanish Revival-style research hospital, for which Gill received an Honor Award from the San Diego Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Gill also designed a bird cage at the zoo in 1937, then the largest bird cage in the world.[96]
Awards
The San Diego Zoo has received numerous awards for its exhibits, programs, and reproduction and conservation efforts. This list includes only awards given to the Zoo specifically, not to its parent organization; for those, see: San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Awards.
Year | Awarding body | Award | Notes |
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1958 | San Diego Zoo Convention & Tourist Bureau | First tourism award[97] | |
1961 | American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums (AAZPA) | Edward H. Bean Award | For reproduction of koalas (first koala birth in Western Hemisphere)[97][98] |
1963 | AAZPA | Edward H. Bean Award | For Galápagos tortoise hatching[97][98] |
For Gila monster hatching (first Gila monster conceived and hatched in captivity)[97][98] | |||
1964 | AAZPA | Edward H. Bean Award | For hatching and rearing of rhinoceros iguana[97][98] |
1966 | AAZPA | Edward H. Bean Award for Most Notable Animal Births in an American Zoo | For reproduction of proboscis monkey (first birth outside of Borneo)[97][98] |
For reproduction of thick-billed parrot (first hatching recorded in captivity)[97][98] | |||
For reproduction of African softshell turtle (first hatching recorded in captivity)[97][98] | |||
1974 | AAZPA | Edward H. Bean Award | For birth of ruffed lemur[97][98] |
1987 | AAZPA | Exhibit Award | For East African Rock |
1988 | AAZPA | Education Award | For East African Rock Kopje Interpretive Program[97][100] |
1989 | AAZPA | Exhibit Award | For Tiger River[97][99] |
Edward H. Bean Award | For California condor breeding (shared with San Diego Zoo Wild Animal Park and Los Angeles Zoo)[97][98] | ||
1991 | AAZPA | Edward H. Bean Award | For François' langur propagation program[97][98] |
Significant Achievement Award | For long-term propagation of Fijian iguanas[97] | ||
1992 | AAZPA | Significant Achievement in Exhibits | For Gorilla Tropics[97] |
1995 | Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) | Significant Achievement Award | For Andean condor reintroduction program[97] |
1996 | AZA | Significant Achievement in Exhibis | For Hippo Beach[97] |
2000 | AZA | Top Honors in International Conservation | For Jamaican Iguana Conservation & Recovery Program (shared with |
Conservation Endowment Fund Award | For restoration of two critically endangered West Indian rock iguana species through headstarting and release (shared with Fort Worth Zoo)[97] | ||
2002 | AZA | Edward H. Bean Award | For Sumatran rhinoceros breeding program (shared with Los Angeles Zoo, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden)[97] |
2007 | Avian Scientific Advisory Group (ASAG) | Plume Award for Noteworthy Achievement in Avian Husbandry | For the Light-footed Clapper Rail coalition (shared with Chula Vista Nature Center, SeaWorld San Diego, San Diego Zoo Wild Animal Park, and United States Fish and Wildlife Service Reserve)[102] |
2010 | AZA | Significant Achievement in Exhibits | For Elephant Odyssey[99][103] |
Top Honors for Excellence in Marketing | |||
2014 | AZA | Top Honors in International Conservation | For Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program in Papua New Guinea (shared with Woodland Park Zoo, Smithsonian National Zoological Park, and Zoo New England)[101]
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In popular culture
- The very first and oldest surviving YouTube video, Me at the zoo, was shot in San Diego Zoo and was uploaded to YouTube on April 23, 2005, by the website's co-founder, Jawed Karim. It can still be viewed on YouTube. A marker was placed near the elephant exhibit to commemorate this upload.[104][105]
- The shots of the private zoo at Xanadu in Orson Welles' 1941 film Citizen Kane were filmed at the San Diego Zoo.[106]
- The San Diego Zoo was the filming location for the long-running documentary television series Zoorama.[107]
- In addition to its normal publicity efforts, and web page, the zoo also produced a short TV program for a number of years with Joan Embery. Joan Embery brought various animals to The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson between 1971 and 1987, and more recently (between 1993 and 2008) The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The zoo loaned the animals.[108]
- The zoo was featured prominently in the 2004 movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, though filming was done at the old Los Angeles Zoo, not at the San Diego Zoo.[109]
- The zoo is featured in the 1979 film Scavenger Hunt, in which each of the five teams in a scavenger hunt steals an ostrich from the zoo. (Actual ostriches were not used.)[110]
- The front cover of The Beach Boys' 1966 album Pet Sounds was photographed at the San Diego Zoo.[111]
- The 6ths' first album Wasps' Nests includes a song called "San Diego Zoo",[112] which features comprehensive directions on how to get to the zoo.
- The photographs in Helen Palmer's children's book I Was Kissed by a Seal at the Zoo were taken at the San Diego Zoo, and featured children from the Francis Parker School in San Diego interacting with the zoo's animals and staff.[113]
- The game show Animal Planet ZooVenture taped at the San Diego Zoo between 1998 and 2000. JD Rothwas the host.
See also
- Bai Yun, a giant panda formerly housed at the San Diego Zoo
- Panda diplomacy
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Further reading
- Amero, Richard W. (2013). Balboa Park and the 1915 Exposition (1st ed.). Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press. OCLC 858603470.
- Bruns, Bill (April 16, 1983). A World of Animals : the San Diego Zoo and the Wild Animal Park. Abrams. OCLC 9440826.
- Christman, Florence (1985). The Romance of Balboa Park (4th ed.). San Diego: San Diego Historical Society. OCLC 11916664.
- Diamant, Kathi. Heart of the Zoo: How San Diego Zoo Director Chuck Bieler Earned His Stripes. Nashville, TN: San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Press. OCLC 1326281412.
- Gould, Tom; Greeley, Maureen. The San Diego Zoo. San Diego, California: Zoological Society of San Diego. OCLC 40984194.
- Myers, Douglas (1999). Mister Zoo: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Charles Schroeder: The World-Famous San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park's Legendary Director. The Zoological Society of San Diego. OCLC 44427194.
- Showley, Roger M. (1999). Balboa Park: A Millennium History. Heritage Media Corp. OCLC 43546558.
- Wegeforth, Harry Milton; Morgan, Neil. It began with a roar! : The beginning of the world-famous San Diego Zoo. San Diego, California: Zoological Society of San Diego. OCLC 23937788.