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/ November 14, 2026
The Greenville Zoo sits inside Cleveland Park in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, where it has welcomed families since opening in 1960. Approved by the Greenville City Council in 1957 and built on land that started at just 5 acres, the zoo grew over the decades…
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/ November 10, 2026
The Honolulu Zoo occupies 42 acres inside Kapiolani Park on the edge of Waikiki, making it one of the only zoos in the world within walking distance of a world-famous beach. Its story began in 1916, when city parks administrator Ben Hollinger convinced Honolulu officials…
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/ November 10, 2026
Taronga Western Plains Zoo opened to the public on 28 February 1977 in Dubbo, New South Wales, becoming the first new zoo built in Australia in 60 years. Run by the Taronga Conservation Society Australia alongside its sister site, Taronga Zoo Sydney, the Dubbo property…
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/ November 9, 2026
Bannerghatta Biological Park sits on the forested edge of Bangalore, carved out in 2002 from the larger Bannerghatta National Park to create a dedicated zoo, safari, and rescue complex. What began as a simple picnic spot in the early 1970s has grown into one of…
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/ November 8, 2026
Nandankanan Zoological Park is a zoo and botanical garden spread across 437 hectares (1,080 acres) of forest and lakeside land at Barang village, between Bhubaneswar and Cuttack in the Indian state of Odisha. The park was established in 1960 and officially opened to the public…
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/ November 7, 2026
Indira Gandhi Zoological Park sits amid the Kambalakonda Reserve Forest on the edge of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, tucked between hills of the Eastern Ghats with the Bay of Bengal just beyond. Opened on 19 May 1977 and named for the former Indian prime minister, it…
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/ November 5, 2026
The Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo (BAMZ) sits in Flatts Village, on a narrow bridge of land near the geographic center of Bermuda. Established by the Bermuda government in 1926 to support the island’s growing tourism industry, it combines a public aquarium, a natural history…
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/ November 4, 2026
Arignar Anna Zoological Park, widely known as Vandalur Zoo, sits about 32 km southwest of central Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India. Its roots go back to 1855, when Edward Balfour founded the Madras Zoo on the Government Museum grounds, making it one of the oldest…
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/ November 1, 2026
The Virginia Living Museum in Newport News is a rare hybrid attraction, blending a zoo, aquarium, science center, and planetarium into a single campus dedicated to the plants and animals native to Virginia. It traces its roots to 1966, when it opened as the Junior…
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/ November 1, 2026
The Utica Zoo has anchored Roscoe Conkling Park in Utica, New York, since 1914, when it opened with a modest collection of three fallow deer. More than a century later, it has grown into an AZA-accredited zoo caring for roughly 200 animals representing about 99…
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/ October 30, 2026
Tucked inside Prentice Park in Santa Ana, California, the Santa Ana Zoo is a compact 20-acre zoo with an unusually specific origin story. When local rancher Joseph Prentice donated the land in 1949, he required the city to keep at least fifty monkeys on the…
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/ October 29, 2026
The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens opened on March 9, 1970, as a wilderness preserve founded by trustees of the Palm Springs Desert Museum. Set against the Santa Rosa Mountains in Palm Desert, California, it grew from a small botanical reserve into one of the…
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/ October 27, 2026
Stone Zoo is a 26-acre (11-hectare) zoo in Stoneham, Massachusetts, tucked against the Middlesex Fells Reservation just north of Boston. Founded in 1905 as the Middlesex Fells Zoo, it was renamed the Walter D. Stone Memorial Zoo in 1969 in honor of its longtime director…
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/ October 27, 2026
The Staten Island Zoo is a compact 8-acre zoo in West New Brighton, Staten Island, that has earned the nickname New York’s “biggest little zoo” since opening to the public on June 10, 1936. Built with an educational mission from the start, it was organized…
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/ October 26, 2026
Seneca Park Zoo has been a fixture of Rochester, New York, since 1894, tucked into the Olmsted-designed Seneca Park along the Genesee River gorge. Operated by Monroe County with support from the Seneca Park Zoo Society, the zoo has grown from a small collection of…
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/ October 26, 2026
The Santa Barbara Zoo opened in August 1963 on the former Child Estate, a Mediterranean-style property along the Santa Barbara coastline that had been donated to the city for public use. Built on the site of a mansion destroyed by a 1959 fire, the zoo…
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/ October 25, 2026
Tucked inside Pueblo City Park in southern Colorado, the Pueblo Zoo has welcomed animal lovers since the early 1900s, when the city’s first scattered animal exhibits began drawing local crowds. The zoo’s historic core, built between 1933 and 1940 by Depression-era relief programs including the…
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/ October 24, 2026
Potter Park Zoo has welcomed visitors in Lansing, Michigan since 1920, making it the oldest public zoo in the state. The zoo occupies about 20 acres within the larger Potter Park, a 102-acre riverside property along the Red Cedar River that the Potter family began…
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/ October 23, 2026
The Rosamond Gifford Zoo sits inside Burnet Park in Syracuse, New York, tracing its roots back to a small four-acre menagerie that opened in 1914. What began as the Burnet Park Zoo grew over the decades into a full-scale accredited zoological facility, eventually taking on…
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/ October 23, 2026
Roosevelt Park Zoo sits along the Souris River in Minot, North Dakota, and holds the distinction of being the oldest zoo in the state. What began in 1914 as a modest municipal menagerie with two dozen squirrels grew into a full-fledged zoo, renamed in 1922…
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