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Upstate NY is another one of those places where you can visit six zoos in three days without breaking a sweat. Buffalo Zoo in Delaware Park, Rochester Zoo, Ross Park in Binghamton, Syracuse, Utica, and Watertown. As late as the 1970's Ross Park was embarrassingly bad, however the Southern Tier Zoological Society took an active role in managing the zoo beginning in the early 1970's, and by the late 1980's a very nice little zoo had replaced what previously was little more than a collection of animals housed behind some chain link fence. I thought it spoke volumes when the zoo became a part of the snow leopard SSP. Ross Park was a place where you wouldn't have wanted to send any animal fifteen years earlier. Again these little parks thrive in places where there's a notion that they enrich the community culturally and are something to be proud of -- a feeling you don't get in San Francisco where so many people seem to be ashamed that the city has a zoo at all. Zoos are vulnerable. Given their public or semi-public organizational structure they are impacted badly when a Parks Department takes a budget hit. And zoological societies themselves are increasingly caught in the cross-hairs when anti-zoo activists infiltrate their organizational structure much as they have leveraged humane associations on the local level.
That's not to say that there isn't always room for improvement -- but the sins of the past outlined in the 1970's by Peter Batten's, Living Trophies are rare these days. And Batten was himself a zoo guy calling for reform not closure. Groups like In Defense of Animals and of course PETA would close every park tomorrow given their druthers.
Ben
Ben,
Ross Park Zoo is indeed a nice zoo. I was there in 1984 when they were starting construction on the Siberian Tiger exhibit. I think the thought here, is change, improve, reform. The majority of todays zoo have done it admirably.
Wade
Ben you could have not said it any better . Raul
Ben, six zoos in three days must be some kind of record. I have a friend who visits five zoos in five days with his son. This summer Joe and I will be visiting five zoos, but we certainly won't be doing it in five days. We will be going to Toledo (OH), Catoctin Wildlife Preserve & Zoo (MD), Claws 'n Paws (PA), Capron Park (MA), and Erie (PA). The second, third, and fifth all have white tigers, the first and fourth have champagne lions.
Mary Ann
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