Kids and grown-ups alike will take delight in America’s impressive collection of zoos and aquariums.
1. With more members than any other zoo in the world, the San Diego Zoo is a national favorite. See more than 4,000 animals at the 100-acre zoo – including the rare giant panda.
2. New York City’s Bronx Zoo is the country’s largest metropolitan zoo. Don’t miss the restored Beaux Arts Lion House.
3. When visiting Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., be sure to see Disney’s Animal Kingdom, a 250-acre animal theme park home to tamarins, llamas, zebras, hippos and hundreds of others. Take a jeep safari or ride the rapids.
4. Ohio’s Columbus Zoo is a leader in conservation and breeding of rare and endangered animals. Colo, the world’s first captive-born gorilla, was born here in 1956 and six of his relatives still live here.
5. Head to Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Neb., to see big cats in the largest cat breeding facility in North America. The zoo also hosts the world’s largest nocturnal exhibit.
6. Be wowed by Great Lakes sealife as well as dolphins, sharks and stunning coral at Chicago’s John G. Shedd Aquarium. Little ones will love the new Polar Play Zone.
7. Some 16,000 animals live in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., buildings that make up the National Aquarium, which reigns as America’s first aquarium.
8. Located on the site of a former sardine cannery on the Pacific Ocean, the Monterey Bay Aquarium pumps fresh ocean water into its exhibits.
9. Atlanta’s Georgia Aquarium boasts more animals than any other in the world. Aquatic creatures from oceans, rivers and the tropics thrive in some 8 million gallons of water.
10. The environmentally innovative Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, Calif., houses more than 11,000 ocean animals in 19 habitats.
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