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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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Atlanta previously hosted pandas on loan from China starting in 1999, and seven panda cubs have been born at the zoo.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026

Ben Supple, deputy chief executive of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland which runs the zoo, said this was only part of the solution.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Still, devotees of John Waters, Sean Baker, Todd Solondz and the Safdie brothers will sense that DeFalco is a kindred spirit, a filmmaker with an open-minded curiosity about the rowdier parts of the human zoo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Earlier this week, the president shared footage featuring the last moments of a man who was killed by a tiger in a U.K. zoo.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

She looked at the zoo map in her hand for a second and then held it out to me.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

Zoo Atlanta is now one of three US zoos with giant pandas, alongside San Diego and the National Zoo in Washington DC.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

In the 1980s, China began to lend pandas to foreign zoos, charging fees as high as $1 million a year that it promised for panda conservation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

He has also been fascinated by reptiles for most of his life and has long supported zoos, museums, and natural history.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Several British zoos are setting up so-called ark populations of the glutinous snail, one of Europe's rarest species, using creatures bred in a back garden in Ceredigion.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

A plague upon bad zoos with bad enclosures!

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel


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