Racine Zoo
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| Date opened | 1923[1] |
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| 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 |
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,[3] 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.
- ↑ https://www.racinezoo.org/history
External links
Media related to Racine Zoo at Wikimedia Commons- Official website
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