Los Angeles Zoo
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| Los Angeles Zoo | |
 A summer crowd at the LA Zoo
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| Date opened | 1966 |
| Location | Los Angeles, California, USA |
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The Los Angeles Zoo founded in 1966, is a large zoo located in Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Zoo, located in Los Angeles' Griffith Park, 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 22 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.
Major construction is currently underway. A new gorilla exhibit opened in November 2007, and there will be new monkey, elephant and rain forest exhibits in the next several years.
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- The Los Angeles Zoo is the zoo featured in the sixth, seventh, and eighth season opening sequences of the 1977 - 1984 John Ritter sitcom Three's Company.
- The first zoo opened in 1912 and 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 Zira and Cornelius are briefly quarantined at the Los Angeles Zoo.
- The Los Angeles Zoo is also an accredited botanical garden, with over 800 plant species and 7,400 individual plants.
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