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The Kansas City Zoo

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Channel: Archmetal06 · 2012 · Entertainment

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Kansas City Zoological Park (Kansas City Zoo) is a 202 acres zoo founded in 1909. It is located in Swope Park at 6800 Zoo Drive Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States. The zoo has a Friends Of The Zoo program. It is home to more than 1,300 animals and is an accredited member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.  In 2008, the Kansas City Zoo was voted one of America's best zoos. It was ranked number one in the nation for "African Animals and Exhibits," with the authors, Allen W. Nyhuis and Jon Wassner, praising its 95-acre Africa exhibit as representing five nations with "one of the most extensive collections of African animals we've ever seen." The Zoo was also ranked among the top 10 in the nation for "Australian Animals and Exhibits" and for "Pachyderms: Elephants, Rhinos, Hippos" In addition, the authors re-quoted famed ape expert Jane Goodall's compliment that Kansas City has "one of the finest chimpanzee exhibits in North America." "America's Best Zoos 2008" ranks the Kansas City Zoo as the number one zoo in the nation for viewing both chimpanzees and kangaroos.  
Front entry plazaThe admission gates and facilities (such as restrooms, gift shop, and food) are located in the entrance to the Kansas City Zoo. In 2010, polar bears were re-introduced to the zoo near the existing North American river otter and trumpeter swan pool just inside the World Gate. The entry plaza also features an educational center and stops for both the zebra tram and train. Polar Bear Plunge
 Nikita.Opened on August 8, 2010, the exhibit is home to a polar bear named Nikita, who was given to the Kansas City Zoo by the Toledo Zoo. The $10 million exhibit features a 140,000 US gallons (530,000 l) pool serviced by a massive waterfall, multiple indoor and outdoor viewing angles with 2.25-inch-thick ( glass windows, and space for up to two additional polar bears. The exhibit was projected to open July 26, 2010 but fell behind due to weather conditions.

[edit] AfricaThe Africa section is broken up into Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, the Congolese Rainforest, and Uganda. Several snack bars are located throughout Africa, as well as the Rafiki Restaurant and Equator gift shop in the Nanyuki Market (Kenya). Nanyuki Market also has a small aviary for masked lovebirds and a white-cheeked turaco. A zebra tram station and boat house are located in the Nanyuki Market. Tanzania features a pier for the boat ride on the other side of Africa.

Botswana
Botswana contains African elephants in an exhibit of 4.5 acres with a water pool at one end. The elephants do paintings and demos during weekends. The elephant walk features a flamingo pool, home to lesser flamingos, Chilean flamingos, mute swans, and black-necked swans. The Promenade leads guests into Botswana, and a large bridge then connects Botswana to the rest of Africa.

Kenya
Kenya has cheetahs (with a lookout building), warthogs, and a deck with a view of some springbok, lesser kudu, common eland, scimitar-horned oryx, and gray crowned cranes that roam across an African plain. saddle-billed storks and southern ground-hornbills make up the wetland-themed exhibits on the opposite side of the walkway. A bomas area, with huts to simulate a Kenyan village has lappet-faced vultures, Aldabra tortoises, bateleur eagles, red-flanked duikers, and blue duikers are worked into small exhibits. The walk-through Scrubland Aviary is home to several species of birds, including a white-cheeked turaco, white-faced whistling ducks, cattle egrets, a bare-faced go-away-bird, a rose-ringed parakeet, a helmeted guineafowl, marbled ducks, orange bishops, superb starlings, and a white-headed buffalo weaver, as well as side exhibits for red ruffed lemurs and silvery-cheeked hornbills.

Tanzania
Tanzania features an African lion exhibit with a lookout building. Small exhibits that appear carved or surrounded by rock simulate a natural kopje; these include serval, bushbaby, meerkat, black-footed cat, rock hyrax, masked and Fischer's lovebird, bat-eared fox, and black-throated monitor. A log-themed bridge crosses to the black rhino exhibit and a top-notch chimpanzee enclosure. The chimpanzee lookout building allows guest to view a very large area for a troop of 26 chimps to play and explore, and allows visitors to become educated on chimpanzees with a connected classroom. This side of the African plains features Masai giraffes, Grant's zebras, gray crowned cranes, and ostriches. Nearby are some ground birds, the kori bustard and secretary bird, leopard tortoises, a small house with slender-snouted crocodiles, and a hippo pool.

Uganda
Uganda section has a small outdoor theater stage (Ruwenzori Theatre), and is home to spacious enclosures with African wild dogs and a troop of Guinea baboons, which sit adjacent to one another. A reservation-only campsite is located off into the woods from Uganda.

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