The Detroit Zoo is a zoo located in the cities of Huntington Woods and Royal Oak in the U.S. state of Michigan. Spanning 125 acres (50.6 ha), it houses...
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Interstate 696 (redirect from Interstate 696 Business (Detroit, Michigan))
Huntington Woods. I-696 follows the southern edge of the Detroit Zoo. Immediately east of the zoo, the Interstate intersects M-1 (Woodward Avenue), and crosses...
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Children's Zoo and Aquarium Cincinnati Zoo Como Park Zoo Crandon Park Zoo Detroit Zoo Fort Worth Zoo Indianapolis Zoo Louisville Zoo Oakland Zoo Omaha Henry...
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A zoo (short for zoological garden; also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition...
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Horace Rackham (section Detroit Zoo)
and Detroit mayor James Couzens, Rackham anonymously promised to donate the land to Detroit if voters would approve financing for the Detroit Zoo. A millage...
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Royal Oak, Michigan (category Metro Detroit)
The city has one of the largest downtowns in Detroit's suburbs, and is also home to much of the Detroit Zoo, with portions extending into neighboring Huntington...
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date back at least to 1968, when the Detroit Zoo opened the first in North America and possibly the world. The Detroit penguinarium was expanded in 2015...
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Belle Isle Aquarium (category Educational buildings in Detroit)
the city of Detroit announced that the aquarium would be closed to save $530,000 annually, with the staff being reassigned to the Detroit Zoo or the Belle...
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Huntington Woods, Michigan (category Metro Detroit)
located along the southern end of the city. The western portion of the Detroit Zoo is located within the city limits and is a contributor to its tax base...
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chimp of all time." Mendi II was acquired by the Detroit Zoo in the fall of 1945. He was a gift to the zoo from James S. Holden and his wife. Mendi made...
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mansions. Inside Detroit hosts tours, educational programming, and a downtown welcome center. Other sites of interest are the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, the...
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Metro Detroit is a major metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Michigan, consisting of the city of Detroit and over 200 municipalities in the surrounding...
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Blue.” Then, in 1927, the Detroit Zoo acquired ten wolverines from Alaska. During the 1927 season, Yost struck a deal with the zoo to have two of the wolverines...
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maintenance workers, golf course fleets,[citation needed] staff at the Detroit Zoo, transportation vehicles in resorts and cities, and drivers of VIP carts...
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List of individual apes (section Zoo notables)
Zoo from 1957 until her death, and was the oldest gorilla in captivity at the time of her death. Jo Mendi II (1939–1980), a chimpanzee at the Detroit...
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characters work at the Detroit Zoo. Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood. 2008. Brian Haley, John Carroll Lynch. Set in and filmed in the Detroit area including the...
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The Giant Mechanical Man (category Films set in Detroit)
there. The film was shot over 19 days. Many scenes were shot in the Detroit Zoo. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating...
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Sonny Eliot (category People from Detroit)
combining words together. He also hosted the Detroit show At The Zoo, which was filmed at the Detroit Zoo. It would last 17 years, and aired on WWJ-TV/WDIV-TV...
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Lincoln Park Zoo, also known as Lincoln Park Zoological Gardens, is a 35-acre (14 ha) zoo in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois. The zoo was founded in 1868...
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Zoo, Saginaw Critchlow Alligator Sanctuary, Athens Deer Tracks Junction, Cedar Springs Detroit Zoo, Royal Oak DeYoung Family Zoo, Wallace Garlyn Zoo,...
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Corrado Parducci (category Artists from Detroit)
Building (1928) Detroit Zoo Rackham Memorial Fountain Webster Hall, Wayne State University (Demolished in 1991) David Stott Building (1929) Detroit Masonic Temple...
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such as the "Arctic Ring of Life" at the Detroit Zoo and Ontario's Cochrane Polar Bear Habitat. Many zoos in Europe and North America have stopped keeping...
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Sichuan takin (section Zoos in North America)
Assiniboine Park Zoo Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Detroit Zoo Edmonton Valley Zoo Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City, Kansas Lincoln Park Zoo Los Angeles Zoo Mesker...
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chicken". Zootierliste. Retrieved 27 January 2020. "Mountain chicken frog". Detroit Zoo. Retrieved 27 January 2020. "Mountain chicken frogs offspring return...
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Donald Ross, located in Huntington Woods, Michigan and adjacent to the Detroit Zoo. The grounds crew at Rackham maintains one 18-hole course. In 1924, Horace...
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Insect Zoo, Washington, D.C. Ralph M. Parsons Discovery Center and Insect Zoo, Los Angeles, California InsectZoo, San Francisco, California Detroit Zoo, Wildlife...
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Belle Isle Park (redirect from Belle Isle Detroit)
animals were captured and moved to the Detroit Zoo and nature center, located on Belle Isle. The children's zoo on the island and the aquarium closed due...
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Boldy James (category Rappers from Detroit)
better known by his stage name Boldy James, is an American rapper from Detroit, Michigan. A member of the Griselda collective, his debut album, My 1st...
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Park Zoo is a 433-acre (175 ha) zoo that opened in 1977 near Battle Creek, Michigan, in the United States. Binder Park Zoo is one of the largest zoos in...
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Walter Briggs Sr. (category Detroit Tigers executives)
Detroit Zoo in 1928, and personally paid for many of its first exhibits. He was also a patron of Eastern Michigan University and the Detroit Symphony...
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