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/ August 5, 2026
Taronga Zoo overlooks Sydney Harbour from the suburb of Mosman, offering one of the most scenic zoo settings in the world. Opened at its current harbourside site on October 7, 1916, after relocating from an earlier home at Moore Park, the zoo takes its name
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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 5, 2026
Melbourne Zoo opened on 6 October 1862 in Royal Park, Parkville, about 4 kilometers north of Melbourne’s city center, making it the oldest zoo in Australia. It was modeled after London Zoo and originally served as an acclimatisation station for domestic animals arriving from long
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/ August 4, 2026
Beijing Zoo is the oldest zoological garden in China, tracing its roots to 1906 when it was established as a menagerie and botanical garden during the late Qing dynasty. It formally opened its gates to the public on June 16, 1908, for an admission price
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/ August 3, 2026
Prague Zoo opened its gates on 28 September 1931 in the Troja district along the Vltava River, founded under director Jiří Janda. Nearly a century later, it has grown into one of the most respected zoos in the world, prized for its hilly, naturalistic terrain
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/ August 3, 2026
Tiergarten Schönbrunn, known internationally as Vienna Zoo, opened on July 31, 1752, on the grounds of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Francis Stephen of Lorraine as an imperial menagerie for the Habsburg court, it holds the distinction of being the world’s oldest zoo
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/ August 3, 2026
Berlin Zoo, formally the Zoologischer Garten Berlin, opened in 1844 in the city’s Tiergarten park, making it the oldest surviving zoo in Germany. Over nearly two centuries it grew into the most species-diverse zoo in the world, a record it has held for decades, while
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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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/ August 1, 2026
Singapore Zoo opened its gates on June 27, 1973, in the Mandai forest area of Singapore, introducing what became known as the “open concept” zoo design. Rather than caging animals, the zoo used moats, hidden barriers, and glass panels to create naturalistic habitats, letting visitors
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/ July 31, 2026
Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium & Safari Park began as a small bird-breeding operation on just 5 acres in Glendale, Arizona, started by teacher Mickey Ollson. In 1973, Ollson purchased 25 acres in nearby Litchfield Park, and the zoo opened to the public there in 1984,
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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 29, 2026
Roger Williams Park Zoo sits inside the historic Roger Williams Park in Providence, Rhode Island, and traces its roots back to 1872, making it the third-oldest zoo in the United States. What began as a small collection of animals has grown into a 40-acre facility
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/ July 28, 2026
Franklin Park Zoo has welcomed visitors to the Dorchester section of Boston since it first opened on October 4, 1912, making it one of the oldest zoos in the United States still in operation today. Set within the northeastern portion of Franklin Park, a landscape
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/ July 28, 2026
The ABQ BioPark Zoo has been a fixture of Albuquerque, New Mexico since 1927, when it opened along the banks of the Rio Grande as the Rio Grande Zoo. Nearly a century later, it remains one of the state’s top attractions, part of the larger
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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 27, 2026
Reid Park Zoo is a city-owned, nonprofit zoo tucked inside Tucson’s Reid Park in Arizona. Unofficially established in 1965 by parks director Gene Reid and formally opened in 1967, the zoo has grown from a small municipal attraction into an AZA-accredited facility spanning about 24
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/ July 27, 2026
Utah’s Hogle Zoo has been a Salt Lake City landmark since it opened on August 1, 1931, on land donated by James A. Hogle and his wife at the mouth of Emigration Canyon. Nearly a century later, the AZA-accredited zoo remains one of the Intermountain
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/ July 26, 2026
The Virginia Zoo sits on 53 acres beside Lafayette Park in Norfolk, Virginia, tracing its roots back to 1900 when the city began assembling a small animal collection in the park. More than a century later, it has grown into an AZA-accredited zoo, home to
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/ July 26, 2026
The North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro is widely recognized as the world’s largest natural habitat zoo, overseeing roughly 2,805 acres in the Uwharrie foothills of the Piedmont region, including wildlife conservation lands like Ridges Mountain Nature Preserve. Since opening to the public in 1974, it
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