What You Need To Know About The Los Angeles Zoo

The Los Angeles Zoo is one of the newest in the country

, having been moved to its present location in Griffith Park only in 1966-- but it is also one of the best. Over 1,100 animals live caged within its 113 acres. And before its move, it was located about two miles to the south, where it had opened in 1912.

Since 1998, the Los Angeles Zoo has opened a number of exhibits, each of them expertly engineered to resemble the natural environment in which its creatures live. The first of these was Chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains, whose setting is designed to resemble that of the Mahale range, on the Tanzania- Congo (Kinshasa) border. Here the chimps sleep in heated bedrooms! Jane Goodall has called the exhibit "one of the finest zoo habitats." Other exhibits include Campo Gorilla Reserve, where seven gorillas live amidst lush tropical vegetation; Elephants of Asia, whose animals inhabit a barn modeled on Thai architecture; Sea Life Cliffs, which houses harbor seals (this was originally called Sea Lions Cliffs); Red Ape Rain Forest, where orangutans are skeptical of changes in their cages; Dragons of Komodo, featuring the large carnivorous lizard of Indonesia; Winnick Family Children's Zoo, where visitors can explore a cave or walk down a desert trail; and Unique Animals, which has at various times displayed the Chicoan peccary, the Sumutran tiger, and the snow leopard. Future exhibits are also being planned.

Activities are held for children. One is a play space called California Condor Rescue, where visitors can learn about saving this species.

One of the zoo's most unusual sights is the rare mountain (or woolly) tapir the only member of its taxon that lives wild outside the tropical forests, being instead a denizen of the mountains of Colombia and Ecuador. (The tapir is related to the horse and rhinoceros, though it looks more like a hog. There are also the Malayan tapir and two other South American species Baird's tapir, found from Mexico south to far western Colombia, and the Brazilian tapir, plus a few prehistoric species that have since gone extinct.) This creature is not found in most other zoos; there are only a few hundred alive in the wild today, and many experts feel that the gene pool of captive specimens is not enough to save the species from extinction.

The activities and exhibits described above are only a few of the zoo's many, and there is not room enough to describe them all. But they should give a good idea of what the zoo is like.

by: Daren

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