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zoo

[zoo] / zu /
NOUN
parklike area in where animals are housed for exhibition
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NOUN
crowded, wild, and chaotic place
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But maintaining a zoo, Ligon learned, is expensive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

One of three Bangkok studios the “Alien: Earth” production occupied housed the zoo, mess hall and engineering room sets and their interconnecting corridors on a single stage.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

Rodents and goats may not be so exciting as tigers and pandas - but this zoo wants to raise their profile.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

The zoo has teamed up with the Ealing Wildlife Group and helped to release 3,000 harvest mice back into the wild in west London, as featured on the David Attenborough programme Wild London.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

“Where is the justice in this world, I ask you? Governesses receiving mail! Ladies’ maids taking trips to the zoo!

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood




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