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This was one of the first buildings at America's second zoo opened in 1875. It was long the Primate House. The first of its monkey islands was connected by a tunnel to the building. On one side Susie,the gorlla that was transported in the Graf Zeppelin, was displayed. The building eventually became the zoo's Reptile House in 1951. Congratulations for the zoo for keeping this historic building.
Jim, with it being a historical building and such the zoo was most likely required to keep it. When we visited the zoo last year, elephant staff described all the obstacles it took to renovate the elephant building for the same reasons.
Radar,
Many zoo's are not under that contraint, and choose to tear down the historic old buildings. The most beautiful zoo's around today, are the ones that retained the old buildings, and modernized and updated them for the comfort of the animals.
Wade
I understand Wade and I agree. What I meant was the Cincinnati Zoo did not have the option to tear the elephant house down whether they wanted to or not, and when they wanted to rennovate and update the building it took a lot of paperwork.
I will send you some pictures I have of the Toledo Zoo. They did a very nice job of remodeling the old cat house into a restaraunt - bars and all still in place.
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