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Color photo of patrons viewing a bear on cover with blue lettering on a black background, "San Diego Zoo." 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 guide includes the first mention of Danny the Guanaco who says welcome to the zoo. Admission costs 75 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 the Children's Zoo, reptiles, mammals, and birds sections, as well as a section entitled History, Services and Membership. This section 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. 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 the Art Service Studio, as well as the Sketch Map of the San Diego Zoological Garden. In this new map, migratory birds are included, as well as a much more detailed rendering of the Children's Zoo. Children's Zoo: macaw exhibit, owls, dog and cat duplex, spider monkey cage, lion, desert tortoise, ape family, seals and sea lions, antelope ground squirrel, Speed the giant tortoise. Reptiles: red diamond rattler, gaboon viper, king cobra, emerald tree boas, Sonoran gopher snake, Cuban iguana, American alligator, Dudley Duplex the two-headed king snake. Mammals: Masai lions, Virginia opossums, Tasmanian devils, koala, hairy-nosed wombat, gray kangaroo, slow loris, night monkey, proboscis monkey, Barbary macaque, Celebes crested macaque, Allen's monkey, drill, colobus monkey, Sumatran orangutan, lowland gorilla, giant anteater, two-toed sloth, African crested porcupine, capybara, North American wolf, Cape hunting dogs, Montague Island brown bear, polar bears, sloth bears, lesser pandas, wolverine, striped hyena, tiger, jaguar, Northern fur seal, Northern elephant seal, rock hyrax, Malay tapir ("saddle-backed" tapir), African black rhinoceroses, African warthog, Nile hippopotamus, dromedary camel, guanaco, wapiti, Uganda giraffe, okapi, bighorn ram, sable antelope, klipspringer, gerenuk. Birds: North African ostrich, Aru double-wattled cassowary, Belle the Mantell's kiwi, penguins, flightless cormorant, black-necked jabiru stork, American or West Indian flamingos, American egret, horned screamer, whooper swan, coscoroba swan, cereopsis goose, emperor goose, secretary bird, bald eagle, short-tailed bateleur eagle, Mongolian ringneck pheasant, Indian blue peafowl, masked bobwhite, vulturine guineafowl, ocellated turkey, Florida sandhill crane, white-winged trumpeter, Brazilian black-necked stilt, silver gull, great crowned pigeon, Leadbeater cockatoo, thick-billed parrot, Cuban trogon, Lesson's motmot, concave-casqued hornbill, apricot cock of the rock, 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. 117 Pages of 117
Identifier
csdz_000011 ark:/13960/t6wx4wk54
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.) 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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