Racine Zoo
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| Date opened | 1923[1] |
|---|---|
| Location | Racine, Wisconsin, USA |
| Coordinates | 42°44′56″N 87°47′01″W / 42.7488°N 87.7837°WCoordinates: 42°44′56″N 87°47′01″W / 42.7488°N 87.7837°W |
| Land area | 32 acres (13 ha)[1] |
| Memberships | AZA[2] |
| Website | racinezoo.org |
The Racine Zoo is a zoo situated on 32 acres (13 ha) on the shore of Lake Michigan in Racine, Wisconsin. With more than 100 species of animals, the zoo's collection focuses on species native to Wisconsin, including a room dedicated to reptiles and amphibians indigenous to the state.
Mammals
- Red kangaroo
- Common wallaroo
- Straw-coloured fruit bat*
- Blue-eyed black lemur
- Geoffroy's spider monkey
- Lar gibbon
- Orangutan
- Tufted deer
- Hoffmann's two-toed sloth
- Llama
- Spectacled bear
- Dromedary camel
- South American coati
- Striped skunk*
- Suri alpaca
- Slender-tailed meerkat
- Transvaal lion
- Siberian tiger
- Canada lynx
- Eastern black rhinoceros
- Masai giraffe
- West Caucasian tur
- Fossa
Amphibians
- Tiger salamander*
- American toad
- Marine toad
- Red-eyed tree frog
- Grey tree frog
Fish
- Klunzinger’s wrasse
- Red Sea sailfin tang
- Beau Gregory damselfish
- Three-stripe damsel
- Domino damsel
- Heniochus butterflyfish
- Blonde naso tang
- Miniatus Grouper
- Volitan lionfish
- Odonus niger trigger
Birds
- Emu
- African penguin
- Lesser adjutant stork
- Marabou stork
- Black swan
- Helmeted guineafowl
- Guam rail
- White cockatoo*
- Cockatiel
- Yellow-crowned Amazon
- Western rosella
- White-breasted cormorant
- Budgerigar
- Lady Amherst's pheasant
- Golden pheasant
Reptiles
- American alligator*
- Ornate box turtle
- Blanding's turtle
- Common musk turtle
- Desert tortoise*
- Tokay gecko
- Bearded dragon*
- Western fox snake*
- Kenyan sand boa*
- Andean milk snake*
- Timber rattlesnake
- Eastern massasauga
- Green tree python
- Columbian red-tailed boa*
(*) Denotes education program animals not normally on exhibit
The zoo's grounds are also home to a playground, a children's zoo, and a hands-on discovery center; free Sunday band concerts and the Animal Crackers Jazz Series are held during the summer. The Racine Zoo operated as a free-admission attraction until January 2007, when fiscal needs required the introduction of an admission fee.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Racine Zoo Facts
- ↑ "List of Accredited Zoos and Aquariums". aza.org. AZA. Retrieved April 27, 2012.
External links
Media related to Racine Zoo at Wikimedia Commons- Official website
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