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zoo

[zoo] / zu /
NOUN
parklike area in where animals are housed for exhibition
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NOUN
crowded, wild, and chaotic place
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Although it’s unclear exactly when she was born, specialists estimate that she was roughly 141 old, making her the oldest resident of the zoo.

From Los Angeles Times

Willow went from being an “awkward calf with ossicones that looked like pigtails to a beautiful icon of the zoo and her vulnerable species,” zookeepers said in a statement.

From Washington Post

On Saturday, an Oakland resident who lives a few miles from the zoo saw one of the crows, Deauville, puttering around the front porch.

From New York Times

The olive baboon was believed to have escaped from a zoo, and was first spotted on 10 March in Taoyuan city.

From BBC

Experts at the zoo followed a species survival and breeding plan from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums for Baraka and Calaya.

From Washington Post