The great zoo adventure

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The Fort Wayne Children's Zoo in Indiana focuses on helping people understand the importance of animals and appreciate the animal kingdom by encouraging the visitors to interact with the animals and their environment throughout the zoo. With the help of graphic displays, minimum barriers, hands-on activities, computerized information systems and many child-friendly activities, it encourages the children to save species in endangered habitats of which Dr Diversity's Rain Forest Research Station is an example.

Recreation, Fort Wayne, Indiana

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A family affair: St. Paul's Como Zoo keeps traditions alive

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The Como Zoo in St. Paul, MN, is celebrating its centennial anniversary with numerous celebrations, events, and family-oriented entertainment. Casey, the gorilla, will lead an all-male gorilla troop through a series of events to draw attention to the zoo's need for a new habitat for the gorillas, who are part of the Gorilla Species Survival Program. The Zoological Building is also scheduled for a makeover as well, with the construction of an insect wall to show biodiversity in action.

Buildings and facilities, Saint Paul, Minnesota

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Small and visitor-friendly: for its size, Bergen County Zoo reaches lots of people

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Northern New Jersey's Bergen County Zoo is relatively small but manages to reach a lot of people through its well-developed community education, docent, and volunteer programs. The zoo also plays a major part in the captive-breeding of the tiny red brocket deer. Other captive breeding efforts, such as spider monkeys, have also been successful.

New Jersey, Parks, Animal breeding, Captive wild animals

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