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Color photo of emerald boas in branches on a black background on the cover. Across the top of the cover reads white "San Diego Zoo" on a black background. Documents the founding of the Zoological Society of San Diego and the San Diego Zoo's early growth and development in San Diego's Balboa Park. The San Diego Zoological Gardens are unique in providing year round outdoor animal exhibits in Balboa Park. The introduction includes the zoo's dedication to children, insight to the Biological Research Insitute and the Zoological Hospital, the unique setting at the zoo, the Zoo school, publication and membership, as well as information on how to give bequests to the zoo. Admission costs 50 cents for adults, but children up to 16 years and all San Diego City and County high school students with a valid I.D. card are admitted free. The guide includes reptiles, mammals, and birds sections. Trained animal acts are presented in the Wegeforth Bowl, named for the Zoo's founder, on the A-Mesa daily. This edition includes a fold-out map attached to the back cover by R.W. Schulteis, as well as the Sketch Map of the San Diego Zoological Garden. Peaches the African elephant, San Diego Zoo entrance, the Zoological Hospital and Biological Institute, Barrington Island iguana, hippopotamus, Speed the giant tortoise, red diamond rattler, gaboon viper, king cobras, emerald tree boa, Sonoran gopher snakes, Cuban iguanas, American alligator, Dudley Duplex the two headed king snake, Masai lions, Virginia opossums, Tasmanian devils, koala, hairy-nosed wombat, gray kangaroo, slow loris, night monkeys, proboscis monkey, Barbary apes, Celebes crested ape, Allen's monkey, drill, colobus monkey, Sumatran orangutan, lowland gorilla, giant anteater, three-toed sloths, African crested porcupine, capybara, North American wolf, Cape hunting dogs, Montague Island brown bear, polar bears, sloth bears, lesser pandas, striped hyenas, wolverine, tiger, jaguar, Northern fur seal, Northern elephant seals,East African rock hyrax, Malay tapir, Sally and Barney African black rhinoceroses, African wart hog, Nile hippopotamus, dromedary camel, guanaco, wapiti, Ugandan giraffes, pronghorn antelopes, bighorn, sable antelope, African Klipspringer, gerenuk, North African ostrich, Aru double-wattled cassowary, Belle the Mantell's kiwi, king penguins, flightless cormorant, shoebill stork, roseate spoonbill heron, American egret, black-necked screamer, whooper swan, coscoroba swan, cereopsis goose, emperor goose, secretary bird, bald eagle, monkey-eating eagle, nocturnal currasow, Indian blue peafowl, masked bobwhite, Cameroon straight-crested guinea fowl, ocellated turkey, Florida sandhill crane, crested seriema, black-ncked stilt, silver gull, great crowned pigeon, Leadbeater's cockatoo, thick-billed parrot, Cuban trogon, Lesson's motmot, concave-casqued hornbill, toco toucan, banded aracari, bare-throated bell bird, white-backed piping crow, red bird of paradise, Myer's sickle-billed bird of paradise, Princess Stephanie's bird of paradise, Himalayan white-crested jay thrush, Philippine coleto.
Type
text
Format
Original Book
Extent
6 x 9 in.; map unfolded: 12 x 9 in. 110 Pages of 110
Identifier
csdz_000008 ark:/13960/t3c03pp69
Language
English
Subject
San Diego Zoo--History Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.)--History Zoo guides Zoos Zoological horticulture Animals Zoos--California--San Diego Zoological Society of San Diego
Place
San Diego (Calif.) San Diego County (Calif.) Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.)
Provenance
San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Library and Archives California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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