zoo

Example Sentences

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Then local zoos began making them the focus of advertising campaigns and the obsession hit another gear, with some people even gifting them as pets.

From The Wall Street Journal

"I saw a real alligator at the zoo!"

From Literature

Why, they’d already had a World’s Fair … and there were tall buildings and a zoo, museums and cathedrals and even the mighty, muddy Mississippi River, with a famous bridge across it.

From Literature

Studies of the zoo’s young elephants is shared with the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in the hopes of delivering care to elephant youth to prevent orphanage.

From Los Angeles Times

"It's a very endangered species around the world," says Miskelly, who served for six years as a trustee for the zoo - famously founded by naturalist Gerald Durrell.

From BBC