Los Angeles Zoo

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The Los Angeles Zoo founded in 1966, is a large zoo located in Los Angeles, California.

The Zoo,located in Los Angeles' Griffith Park and is home to 1,200 animals from around the world. [1]

It has been successful in its breeding program of the rare California Condor, helping to grow the number of condors in the world from a low of 13 in the 1980s to several hundred condors today.

Among the highlights of the public zoo grounds are naturalistic habitats for chimpanzees, orangutans, koalas and for the komodo dragon.

There is currently a major construction project ongoing, with building in place for new hippopotamus, gorilla and elephant exhibits.

[edit] Trivia

• The Los Angeles Zoo is the zoo featured in the sixth season opening sequence of the 1977 - 1984 John Ritter sitcom Three's Company.

• The first zoo was about two miles north of its current site until about 1965. Remnants of the zoo remain and were used in the film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. The site of the current zoo was formerly the location of Rodger Young Village, which was itself built on the land which had been used for the Griffith Park Aerodrome.

• It is one of the few zoos worldwide to contain Mountain Tapir.

• In the 1971 20th Century Fox film, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, the characters of Zira and Cornelius are briefly quarantined at the Los Angeles Zoo.

[edit] External links

• Los Angeles Zoo website

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