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San Diego Zoo
The San Diego Zoo is located just north of downtown San Diego along Park Boulevard, on Zoo Drive in Balboa Park. The zoo is home to more than 4,000 endangered and rare species of animals and is famous all over the world for giving an opportunity to visitors to see and view animals in habitat environments. The San Diego Zoo is spread across 100 acres of parkland.
The San Diego Zoo has many exotic animals like giant pandas, koalas, reptiles, orangutans and siamangs. The uniqueness of the zoo comes from its exhibits. The exhibits in San Diego Zoo are designed around a habitat and different animals are found in a habitat just like you would find them in the wild.
The unique exhibits in the San Diego Zoo range from African rain forest to Arctic Taiga and Tundra. The zoo also has free-flight aviaries and many of the exhibits are made natural with the use of invisible wires and darkened blinds for birds and pools and open air moats for large mammals.
The zoo has pandas taken on a long-term loan from China and it grows 40 types of bamboo for the pandas and 18 types of eucalyptus trees for the koalas.
The San Diego Zoo also has a Children’s Zoo with over 30 animals and a range of activities to keep children entertained during their visit to the zoo.
There is a guided tour bus which covers nearly 75 percent of the zoo and if you want an aerial view of the zoo, the best way to do is with the overhead gondola lift and it also the fastest way of moving from one end of the zoo to the other.
- Address: 2920 Zoo Drive, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA 92101
- Telephone: (619) 231-1515
- Hours: 9 AM – 4 PM daily, extended hours in summer
- Website: www.sandiegozoo.org
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