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/ August 6, 2026
Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C. has named its two newest residents Han and Solo — a pair of bat-eared fox kits born to first-time parents Ziggy and Lando, and the first of their species born at the zoo in 75 years. Keepers announced the
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/ August 6, 2026
The Calgary Zoo opened on January 9, 1929, and has grown into one of Canada’s premier wildlife attractions, spread across 125 acres on St. George’s Island in the Bow River in the Bridgeland neighborhood of Calgary, Alberta. Operated by the Wilder Institute, the zoo is
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/ August 5, 2026
Auckland Zoo has welcomed visitors to Western Springs since December 16, 1922, when it opened with animals purchased from a private collector’s shuttered menagerie. Run today by Auckland Council through Auckland Unlimited, the 16.35-hectare (40-acre) park has grown from a modest municipal collection into New
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/ August 4, 2026
Edinburgh Zoo has announced the birth of a pygmy hippo calf to parents Gloria and Otto, born on Friday, July 31, 2026, just hours after the zoo publicly revealed Gloria was pregnant. Keepers had expected the birth in August, so the early arrival caught the
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/ August 2, 2026
Chester Zoo opened on June 10, 1931, when George Mottershead and his family established the site at Upton-by-Chester, Cheshire, on a philosophy of open, bar-free enclosures that was unusual for its time. Nearly a century later, it has grown into the most-visited zoo in the
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/ August 2, 2026
Whipsnade Zoo opened on 23 May 1931 as a bold experiment by the Zoological Society of London: an open-air park where animals could roam expansive paddocks instead of cramped city enclosures. Set in the Chiltern Hills near Dunstable, Bedfordshire, it became the first zoo in
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/ July 30, 2026
Fossil Rim Wildlife Center is a nonprofit conservation park spread across 1,800 acres of Texas Hill Country near Glen Rose, about an hour southwest of Fort Worth. Visitors drive their own vehicles along a scenic road through open pastures where giraffes, zebras, antelope, and endangered
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/ July 29, 2026
The San Diego Zoo Safari Park opened on May 10, 1972, in the San Pasqual Valley near Escondido, California, as an extension of the San Diego Zoo focused on breeding and displaying animals in expansive, naturalistic habitats rather than traditional enclosures. Operated by the nonprofit
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/ July 27, 2026
The El Paso Zoo is a 35-acre zoological park in El Paso, Texas, tracing its roots to 1910 when local donations of deer and a gray wolf formed the basis of what was then known as the Washington Park Zoo. Over the following century it
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/ July 25, 2026
Palm Beach Zoo and Conservation Society sits inside Dreher Park in West Palm Beach, Florida, on a lush 23-acre site that has drawn visitors since it opened in 1961. What began as a small municipal attraction called the Dreher Park Farm Zoo has grown into
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/ July 19, 2026
The Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens opened on November 28, 1966, in Griffith Park, replacing the smaller Griffith Park Zoo that had operated on a nearby site since 1912. Owned and operated by the City of Los Angeles, the 133-acre facility sits near the
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/ July 14, 2026
Brookfield Zoo opened on July 1, 1934, in Brookfield, Illinois, just outside Chicago, and quickly became known for reshaping how American zoos presented animals. Rather than lining up cages, the zoo used moats, ditches, and naturalistic barriers to separate visitors from wildlife, an approach that
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/ July 7, 2026
Zoombezi Bay is a 22.7-acre water park owned and operated by the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Powell, Ohio, just north of Columbus. It opened to the public on May 26, 2008, on the site of the former Wyandot Lake Adventure Park, which the zoo
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