Zoos

Extinction alert for 800 species
By Richard Black
Environment Correspondent, BBC News website
Researchers have compiled a global map of sites where animals and plants face imminent extinction.
The list, drawn up by a coalition of conservation groups, covers almost 800 species which they say will disappear soon unless urgent measures are taken.
Most of the 800 are now found only in one location, mainly in the tropics.
Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers say protecting some of these sites would cost under $1,000 per year.
"This is a whole suite of species threatened with extinction," said Stuart Butchart, global species programme co-ordinator with BirdLife International, one of the groups behind the report.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4522044.stm


Dutch zoos begin vaccinating fowl against bird flu AP Photo AMS106-112

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) _ Rotterdam Zoo began vaccinating its penguins, ostriches, owls and other birds against bird flu Tuesday, among the first European parks to inoculate against the virulent strain that swept through flocks in Asia and threatened humans.
In Europe, wild birds have tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu strain in Romania, Russia, Croatia and Turkey, but the virus strain has not been detected in humans.
That strain, however, has killed at least 69 people in Asia since 2003.
Zookeepers said they feared that wild birds flying south to Africa for the winter might return next year carrying the virus, and wanted to begin building resistance among their flocks now.
Koen Brouwer, the director of the Netherlands Union of Zoos, said that other Dutch zoos would vaccinate birds in the coming days. He said the zoos began lobbying for vaccinations in August. A major hurdle was lifted Nov. 11, when the European Union dropped objections, but the zoos" applications were only now being approved.
"It was a rather bureaucratic process, but I have to say that I was ultimately satisfied with the result, especially the cooperation from the Dutch government," he said. "We"re not in a crisis now, so we understand the urgency is not so great."
The Netherlands lies in the path of bird migration from both Asia and Africa. It is especially sensitive to the threat of plague after suffering a major outbreak of a different bird flu strain in 2003 in which 30 million birds were slaughtered, 89 people were infected and one died.
The Dutch government annoyed politicians in Brussels this summer by ordering that all commercial, pet, and zoo birds be kept in shelters or indoors.
The European Union Commission initially opposed such measures as unnecessary, but later issued similar guidelines for birds near "high risk" areas _ migration routes and large bodies of water.
Other Europe-wide measures in place include extra disinfection procedures for imported birds and a ban on bird markets.

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Male elephant knocks out keeper at Tokyo zoo

TOKYO -- A male elephant knocked out a keeper with one of his tusks at a zoo in central Tokyo in what may have been a hormone-driven frenzy, the zoo master said Tuesday.
Attie, a 2.2-ton (2.4-U.S. ton) Asian bull at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo, struck his keeper Yutaka Kawaharabayashi in the forehead on Tuesday morning, zoo master Teruyuki Komiya told reporters.
Nine-year-old Attie had recently entered "musth," which means a bull is physiologically ready to mate and is looking for a female, according to Komiya.
Another zoo worker dragged the bleeding Kawaharabayashi from the elephant pen, Komiya said. Kawaharabayashi sustained serious head injuries and has been hospitalized.
Ueno, the only zoo in central Tokyo, is also home to four female elephants. Attie is the only bull.

http://news.inq7.net/world/index.php?index=1&story_id=59905



Zoo Cat Captured After Two Weeks In Hiding
POSTED: 1:50 pm EST December 13, 2005
PARAMUS, N.J. -- Workers inside the Bergen County Zoo administration building in Paramus have found an ocelot that escaped near the end of last month.
The cat wandered into a trap that was set after it got out of a plastic container inside the building while workers cleaned and repaired its exhibit.
The ocelot was not considered dangerous and apparently spent nearly two weeks hiding in the building.

http://www.nbc10.com/news/5526694/detail.html


Commission welcomes proposals for new zoo
Clinch Park site will close in '07
By VANESSA McCRAY
Record-Eagle staff writer
TRAVERSE CITY - The city will give groups who want to create a new zoo until mid-February to submit their plans.
City commissioners Monday provided some direction for how they would like the closure of the city's bayfront Clinch Park Zoo handled. Commissioners agreed in November to a Labor Day 2007 deadline to shutter the current zoo.
The city could provide funding to help a nonprofit open a new facility. Only one group, Citizens for a Wildlife Education Center, announced a desire to work with the city to do so.
Commissioners, however, will give other groups a chance to make a bid. The city will send out a "request for proposals" and ask interested groups to submit plans by mid-February. The city commission will select the successful group at its March 6, 2006 meeting.
Commissioners said they are willing to provide a 50 percent match to fund a feasibility study for the new group. The study could cost "in the high five to low six figures," city manager Richard Lewis estimated.
The wildlife group hoped the city would acknowledge it as the zoo's successor immediately. It also encouraged the city to refrain from relocating zoo animals without first giving it time to make plans for a new center.
But city officials - at the urging of others - will continue to look for suitable homes for the animals.
Lewis said the zoo has found a possible place to send the bears and lynx.
"If we pass up this opportunity I think it would be very sad," said Debi Sanborn, a member of the Grand Traverse Zoological Society board.
The zoological society opposed the city's decision to close the zoo.
"We should be finding homes rather than holding onto them," said commissioner Ralph Soffredine.
April is the earliest any animals would be relocated, Lewis said.

http://www.record-eagle.com/2005/dec/13zoo.htm



Oregon Zoo Wants To Know - Flying Reindeer - Science Fiction Or Scientific Fact?
Portland, Oregon - Flying reindeer expert and Oregon Zoo Director Tony Vecchio is asking children around the world to e-mail their reindeer sightings to him by visiting http://www.oregonzoo.org/#reindeer. Vecchio has studied flying reindeer for nearly ten years and will talk about his theories during a book signing for Flight of the Reindeer on Dec. 23 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the zoo's Cascade Outfitters Gift Shop.

http://www.medfordnews.com/articles/index.cfm?artOID=322696&cp=10997



NEW TIGER ARRIVES AT SAN FRANCISCO ZOO
12/18/05 11:00 PST
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN)
The San Francisco Zoo on Friday welcomed a new tenant, a tiger named Tatiana, who will eventually accompany their resident male Siberian tiger, Tony.
Tatiana arrived on a flight from Denver and was placed into a quarantine pen where she will spend the next 30 days, according to zoo curator Bob Jenkins.
Tony, who lived most of his 13 years in the company of his female sibling Emily, lives in the zoo's Lion House. Emily died of cancer of the spleen in late 2004, according to the zoo.
Jenkins said Tatiana will provide Tony with the companionship he is used to while she awaits entry into a national breeding program for tigers.
The San Francisco Zoo participates in the Tiger Species Survival Plan, a cooperative effort of the American Zoo and Aquarium Association to ensure the tiger population in North America remains genetically viable and healthy, Jenkins explained.
"Tatiana is a young tiger, about two years old, and basically she's here on a holding pattern before she enters the breeding program,'' Jenkins said. "Tony is a vasectomized male, so this is an ideal partnership.''
Tatiana will enter the breeding program when its coordinators determine that they need her genetic input into the tiger population. In the meantime, she will bunk with Tony.
The tigers must be introduced to each other gradually, Jenkins said. First, Tatiana goes through her 30 days of quarantine to make sure she's healthy and eating properly. Then, she will be moved to the Lion House where she and Tony will be able to see each other. Eventually, they will be moved into adjacent pens in order to get used to each other's smells and mannerisms. Then they will begin spending bits of time in the same pen. At some point, the two will live together.
"Once you start that process, you're on what we call 'tiger time.' They let you know when they're ready. You're on their schedule at that point,'' Jenkins said.
Jenkins also said that a population of penguins that had experienced some health problems earlier this year are doing "just fine.'' He said the zoo was making preparations for the penguins to breed next year.

http://www.cbs5.com/localwire/localfsnews/bcn/2005/12/18/n/HeadlineNews/NEW-TIGER/resources_bcn_html



To ape gorillas, see Zoo Atlanta primatologist
By TOM SABULIS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 12/19/05
Even King Kong had to research his part.
That's why actor Andy Serkis turned to Zoo Atlanta's Tara Stoinski to learn the ways of real gorillas in Rwanda.
Although Kong is a computer-generated creature on the big screen, Serkis acted as Kong with other performers during the filming, and his movements were electronically captured to help create the beastly character. (He did the same thing for Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.)
A primatologist who also works with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, which is based at Zoo Atlanta, Stoinski talked about what the movie gets right, simian speaking, and how Serkis' visit to the Fossey Fund's Karisoke Research Center in Africa last year influenced the big star's performance.
Why did you like the movie?
"The two things I was most struck by was Kong's protective nature. He's very protective of Ann Darrow [played by Naomi Watts] and spends a lot of time and energy protecting her from various elements in the movie.
Gorillas are like that?
"That's extremely typical of gorillas. Gorillas will defend members of their family to the death. When you hear about gorilla infants that are on sale in the market in Africa, they [poachers] have had to literally kill the mother and often times other members of the group in order to get an infant.
What else did you like?
My other personal favorite part was that Kong laughed in the movie. Gorillas do laugh.
How can you tell they laugh?
They have a vocalization they do. In the movie, Kong does it in response to Ann Darrow. When we generally see them laugh [in real life] is when they are playing. We have a bunch of males right now [at Zoo Atlanta] and sometimes they're laughing so hard when they're playing they actually have to stop and catch their breath. To have Kong laugh in the movie, it was wonderful. That's a really fun side of gorillas that a lot of people don't know about.
Could you tell that Andy Serkis studied gorillas by what you saw onscreen?
He was very interested in how they handled things, their movement patterns. That was really reflected in the movie. I thought a lot of the ways that Kong picked up things and handled things looked exactly how a gorilla would do it.
Can this movie really educate people about the plight of gorillas?
It has a lot of good elements. When the first "King Kong" was made in 1933, we knew absolutely nothing about gorilla behavior. We now know how close their social groups are. How they protect family members. That they have individual personalities. A lot of that is reflected in this "Kong."
The movie won't give them a misleading idea about gorillas?
It's a fantasy-adventure piece, and people recognize that. People know that there aren't 25-foot gorillas roaming around. Still, there are true-to-life aspects of gorillas [in the movie], and anything we can do to raise awareness of gorillas and gorilla conservation is extremely important. We are at a crisis with this species. The words that are used to describe it are "catastrophic decline."
But can they really climb tall buildings?
If there were proper hand-holds, I'm sure they could. They're extremely strong.

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/living/1205/19lvzoo.html


Deal to save zoo should be finalized today
By LAURA LAYDEN, lllayden@naplesnews.com
December 19, 2005
The lions will have reason to roar.
A deal to save the Naples Zoo that has been in the works for nearly two years is expected to be completed today.
The nonprofit Trust for Public Land will purchase 166.5 acres of land in the heart of Naples and sell nearly 130 acres to Collier County, including the roughly 40 acres upon which the zoo sits.
The county will pay $41.5 million for the land, slightly more than voters approved for the purchase in November 2004.
Greg Chelius, Florida director for the Trust for Public Land, flew into town Sunday night from Tallahassee to sign off on the deal, which should be wrapped up by this afternoon.
"It's an extremely important day for the Trust for Public Land and the community of Naples and Collier County," Chelius said. "We think the preservation of this land, saving the zoo and creating a central park really provides long-term sustainability to an urban area, which is the core to our mission."

http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/news/article/0,2071,NPDN_14940_4326263,00.html



Zoo's outreach extends to Kenya
By Gail Pennington
POST-DISPATCH TELEVISION CRITIC
12/19/2005
When: 7 p.m. Thursday
Where: KMOV (Channel 4)
Mike Favazza dug deep to find precisely the right word to describe his recent trip to Kenya to document the St. Louis Zoo's conservation efforts there. He finally came up with one: "transformative."
Favazza, a photographer for KMOV (Channel 4), and Anne Steffens, the station's education reporter, joined Zoo president Jeffrey Bonner, education director Louise Bradshaw and others as they looked at new ways to help Kenyan schools teach conservation. The two-week trip took them to spots including remote Kalama, where a single school serves all the children in a two-hour radius, and the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, the hub of efforts to save the endangered Grevy's zebra.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/columnists.nsf/gailpennington/story/4AC22B4398A2BFB2862570DA0037D7ED?OpenDocument



Vets at Zoo Atlanta inseminate snake
Dec 18, 2005, 1:55 GMT
ATLANTA, GA, United States (UPI) -- Veterinarians at Zoo Atlanta have performed what is believed to be the first artificial insemination of a snake.
The zoo was hoping that two eastern indigo snakes would reproduce by doing what comes naturally. But Blu, who was born at the zoo in 1988, just did not have what it takes to make partner, a snake on loan from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, a mom.
Blu also suffers from a low sperm count.
The unnamed female was anaesthetized during the insemination, stretched out to her full 6 feet 2 inches on a gurney. Veterinarians say they will not know for about two months if the procedure took and she is indeed expecting.
Eastern indigo snakes are a non-venomous species and the longest snake in North America. In earlier days, the snakes were popular with carnival snake charmers.
Their numbers have been reduced because of habitat loss and the snake`s own slow movements.

http://science.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1069787.php/Vets_at_Zoo_Atlanta_inseminate_snake



Surge in panda science begets giant surprise
Artificial insemination offers hope of bolstering endangered species
12:00 AM CST on Sunday, December 18, 2005
By D'VERA COHN The Washington Post
WASHINGTON – The National Zoo's giant panda cub, Tai Shan, didn't just happen. He was brought to you by scientists who spent years studying the intimate details of black-and-white-bear biology before they mastered artificial insemination.
A recent surge in giant panda science is helping zoos get more animals pregnant, diagnose their pregnancies and put to rest the long-held belief that pandas are poor breeders. The research is producing insights into how pandas communicate, how mothers raise their young and how the animals look for food.
The ultimate goal is to increase the giant panda's chances in the wilds of China, where only 1,600 remain, threatened mainly by the loss of bamboo forests to logging and development. Scientists are studying the panda's basic survival needs and are trying to build up the number of captive animals so that some could be set loose in potential panda territory.
Money for the studies has come largely from the four U.S. zoos that have giant pandas – including the National Zoo, where Tai Shan went on public display recently.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/DN-pandadog_18nat.ART.State.Bulldog.3dbbf33.html



Poachers kill bear in zoo for gallbladder
Aizawl, Dec. 18: A young Himalayan black bear in Aizawl zoo was found murdered by officials on Friday night with its gallbladder missing.
The zoo’s veterinary doctor, Vanlalhruaia Pachuau, said the bear suffered grievous injury on its head, possibly from a blunt object.
The bear was last seen by its feeders on Wednesday. On Thursday, as there was no sign of the bear, the zoo authorities launched a search but managed to find the carcass only on Friday night inside its enclosure.
The doctor said the bear’s entrails and other organs had been taken out though only the gallbladder was missing. “We believe the bear was killed for its gallbladder,” Pachuau said.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051219/asp/northeast/story_5616844.asp



Evansville zoo considering tropics exhibit
Associated Press
EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- Planners were considering an $11.5 million proposal to add a South American rain forest exhibit to the Mesker Park Zoo.
Torre Design Consortium of New Orleans designed the 10,000-square-foot "Amazonia" exhibit, which would have a climate that allows tropical plants and animals to thrive. It submitted its design this week to the Area Plan Commission.
Erik Beck, Mesker's general curator, said construction bids were likely to be opened in February on the improvements, among those funded by a $15.3 million bond issue for a zoo overhaul. Construction was expected to take from 18 months to two years, making for completion in late 2007 or early 2008.
"People can come in on a February day into surroundings that are 80 degrees, nice and humid, with a really huge waterfall," Beck said. "It'll be a fantastic experience."

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051217/NEWS01/512170436/1006/NEWS01



Elephant pitching in to help zoo expand
OSCAR ABEYTA
Tucson Citizen
A one-of-a-kind painting by Tucson's largest artist is being auctioned to help buy her and her friend a new home.
Shaba, the Reid Park Zoo's African elephant, is doing her part to help raise the $8.5 million needed for the zoo's African exhibit expansion. The expansion would include a larger enclosure for Shaba and Connie, the zoo's Asian elephant, and would allow curators to breed Shaba.
Even though the auction doesn't close until Tuesday afternoon, zoo administrator Susan Basford said it's already a success.

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/news/local/121705a4_brf_elephantart



Palm Beach Zoo Reopens With Two New Cubs
Public Encouraged To Suggest Names For Babies
POSTED: 11:13 pm EST December 16, 2005
UPDATED: 11:28 pm EST December 16, 2005
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The Palm Beach Zoo has welcomed some new residents.
On Thursday, two Jaguar cubs made their public debut when the zoo reopened after being closed for eight weeks.
Hurricane Wilma destroyed three exhibits and damaged nearly 30 others.
The zoo also lost one animal.
With help from workers and volunteers, however, the zoo is finally open again for business.
The zoo is also inviting the public to a special reopening celebration on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The zoo is also holding a naming contest for the cubs.
To offer a suggestion, zoo officials are encouraging everyone to go to the Palm Beach Zoo's Web page.

http://www.wpbfnews.com/news/5558427/detail.html



Kids get free trip to zoo

By Lee Bonorden/Austin Daily Herald
Mike and Marge McCoy have rescued a program that gives Austin Public Schools' third graders a free trip to the Minnesota Zoo.
Candace Raskin, Austin superintendent of schools, held a press conference Thursday afternoon at Banfield Elementary School to announce the McCoy's generous donation.
The McCoys, of Austin, donated $8,700 to the Austin school district to fund the free trip to the Minnesota Zoo by all third graders in the public school system. The trip will be made near the end of the 2005-06 school year.
“It's an opportunity the third graders should have,” Mike McCoy said.
Whether it remains an annual affair for future third grade classes remains to be seen.
“I would certainly hope so,” McCoy said Thursday. “As long as we are here in the community, we are committed, and we have told Dr. Raskin we are committed to doing it.”
The children's transportation, zoo entrance and class fees and lunch will be paid by the couple's grant.
Raskin called the Minnesota Zoo experience an “exceptional program for our grade three students.”
Carol Gilbertson, a Banfield Elementary third grade teacher, added her praise to the field trip to the Minnesota Zoo.
At one point, during a question-and-answer session with Gilbertson's third graders, “Minnesota Zoo director” McCoy couldn't help himself.
He told the children the Minnesota Zoo hosts a “sleep-over” style field trip for children, too.
The excited reaction from the children was enthusiastically positive, prompting McCoy to remark, “Maybe, I shouldn't have mentioned that.”
Lee Bonorden can be contacted at 434-2232 or by e-mail at

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Manda Deer Park in Jammu to be upgaded to zoo
Jammu December 17, 2005 11:40:07 AM IST

The Jammu and Kashmir government has given its approval for the upgradation of the prestigious Manda Deer Park, located in a patch of the Ramnagar forests close to the winter capital here, to a full-fledged zoo.
The Central Zoo Authority of India (CZAI) had also given its permission, Regional Wildlife Warden (Jammu) Nasir Ahmad Kitchloo told UNI here today.
He said a CZAI team visited Manda recently and did a comprehensive survey of the project.
The main attractions for Manda visitors are the animals wandering in a semi-wild habitat. The park at present has seven leopards, three leopard cats, a civet, black bear, spotted deer, barking deer, nilgai, sambars, gazelles and porcupines.
The proposed zoo, which will come up in 64 hectares of land surrounded by thick forests, will additionally have walk-in aviaries, Mr Kitchloo said.
More wild animals would be brought from outside the state after the zoo is constructed, he added.
The government also plans to introduce eco-tourism concept in the zoo on the pattern of that existing in Karnataka, besides upgrading the Nature Intrepretation Centre.
Mr Kitchloo said the department had also been releasing from time to time spotted deer, nilgais and other antelopes in the Ramnagar wildlife sanctuary as a result of which their numbers had increased substantially in the forests.
As the department faced problems in the construction of enclosures for leopards and for their maintenance in Manda, some of these animals had been shifted to the Chatvir Zoo in chandigarh, he added.
The state has three national parks -- Kishtwar High Altitude National Park (Jammu region), Dachigam National Park (Kashmir) and Hemis High Altitude National Park -- and 17 wildlife sancturies, besides 36 conservation reserves.
Shankaracharya and Achabal in Kashmir and Gya-miru in Ladakh are proposed to be developed as new wildlife sancturies.

http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=193715&cat=India



Czech zoos join European Save the Rhino Campaign
PRAGUE, Dec 15 (CTK) - Czech zoos have recently joined the European Save the Rhino Campaign launched by the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria at the beginning of September in support of the conservation and survival of rhinos in the wild.
Fewer than 18,000 rhinos live in the wild and only about 60 Javan Rhinos, the rarest rhino species, have survived. At the beginning of the 19th century, there were about two million rhinos on the planet while at present four in five rhino species face the threat of extinction.
The zoo in Ostrava, north Moravia, has placed information about the campaign that will run till the end of August 2006 on its website, the Prague zoo organised a press conference on the topic on Wednesday, and zoos in Brno, south Moravia, Liberec, north Bohemia and Jihlava, south Moravia, have also joined the campaign.
European Rhino Day will be marked on May 1, 2006.
The main goal of the European Save the Rhino campaign is to support at least 13 selected rhino conservation projects in Africa and Asia. The campaign that aims to create awareness of the threats that rhinos face in the wild, is accompanied by money raising events, the goal of which is to collect 350,000 euros in support of the selected projects.
The money will go, for instance, to Kenya to purchase equipment to monitor rhino populations and finance an educational programme, and to Zimbabwe, for the purchase of a crane to re- settled rhinos. In Indonesia, the collected donations will be used to reinforce security patrols monitoring Javan and Sumatran rhinos. Two security patrols are to be established in Malasya.

http://www.praguemonitor.com/ctk/?id=20051215F00915;story=Czech-zoos-join-European-Save-the-Rhino-Campaign



Zoo elephants need 3 times more space?

Dec 15, 2005 — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The three elephants at Los Angeles Zoo — Gita, Ruby and Billy — need three times more space than their current quarters but it comes with a price tag of $50 million, according to a report on the future of pachyderms at the zoo.
The independent report was commissioned by Los Angeles' new mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, after years of debate about the keeping of elephants in captivity at the city-owned zoo.
Some U.S. zoos have closed their elephant exhibits in the past few years in the light of concern over odd behavior and arthritis among the animals, who have strong social instincts and roam some 20 miles a day in the wild.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1409114



Turkmenistan's eccentric president is to spend millions of pounds on a lavish desert zoo - to house penguins.
President Saparmurat Niyazov has issued decrees in the past banning recorded music and men with long hair.
Now, he is spending £10 million on the construction of the zoo in the Karakorum desert - where temperatures reach up to 40 degrees Celsius.
But Niyazov has decreed the zoo must have penguins because he believes the birds need to be saved from starvation caused by global warming.
Plans for the zoo, which opens next year, come just a year after the president ordered a giant ice palace be built despite the fact the country is largely covered by desert. - Ananova.com

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=iol113467128866P623



A hot spot: Jaguar cubs debut at zoo
Damage from Wilma closed attraction for weeks
By MICHELE DARGAN , Daily News Staff Writer
Friday, December 16, 2005
"I want to see the cats, OK?" said 2 1/2-year-old Sam Lindemann, looking through the slats in the screen fence.
His grandmother, Frayda Lindemann of Palm Beach, pointed to the back area of a large enclosure where Nabalam, a female jaguar, stood with her two cubs.
"Right through there," she said. "They're hiding behind the trees. See the mommy?"
It was the first exposure to public eyes for the two female cubs born on Sept. 21 at the Palm Beach Zoo. The first jaguar cubs ever born at the zoo were the main attractions during the zoo's reopening Thursday. It had been closed for repairs since Hurricane Wilma hit on Oct. 24.

http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/content/news/zoo1216.html

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