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Encyclopedia > Nashville Zoo at Grassmere

The Nashville Zoo at Grassmere is a zoo located six miles (10 km) southeast of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Giraffes in Sydneys Taronga Zoo Free monkeys islands at the São Paulo Zoo Panda enclosure at Chiang Mai Zoo Visitors feeding and petting tamed marmots at the Parc Animalier des Pyrenées Sea lions at the Melbourne Zoo For other uses of the term Zoo, see Zoo... Nickname: Music City Official website: http://www. ... Official language(s) English Capital Nashville Largest city Memphis Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 36th 109,247 km² 195 km 710 km 2. ...


The zoo was founded in 1996, the result of a merger between two upstart competing facilities, Nashville Zoo (located in nearby Ashland City) and Grassmere Wildlife Park (which was located at the zoo's present location). It has been engineered to grow to take maximum advantage of its 200 acres (800,000 m²). Ashland City is a town located in Cheatham County, Tennessee. ...


The zoo is home to many native and exotic animals including newly added Masai giraffes, African Elephants, Bengal Tigers, White-Handed Gibbons, and many others. Binomial name Giraffa camelopardalis Linnaeus, 1758 The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) is an African even-toed ungulate mammal, the tallest of all land-living animal species. ... Binomial name Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797) The African Savannah Elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the best-known and larger of the two African elephants. ... Trinomial name Panthera tigris tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) The Bengal tiger or Royal Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) is a subspecies of tiger found primarily in Sundarban in Bangladesh. ... Binomial name Hylobates lar (Linnaeus, 1771) The Lar Gibbon (Hylobates lar), also known as the White-handed Gibbon, is a primate in the Hylobatidae or gibbon family. ...


The River otter exhibit is currently in renovation to be changed to an American Alligator exhibit.


The zoo is active in conservation activities including participating in a number of the programs in the Species Survival Plan which is managed by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association. The American Zoo and Aquarium Association, or AZA is a people-based association dedicated to raising awareness of zoos and aquariums. ...


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Nashville Zoo at Grassmere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (192 words)
The Nashville Zoo at Grassmere is a zoo located six miles (10 km) southeast of downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
The zoo was founded in 1996, the result of a merger between two upstart competing facilities, Nashville Zoo (located in nearby Ashland City) and Grassmere Wildlife Park (which was located at the zoo's present location).
The zoo is active in conservation activities including participating in a number of the programs in the Species Survival Plan which is managed by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association.
Nashville park information (717 words)
The Nashville Zoo at Grassmere is commercial zoo located in the heart of the urban Nolensville Road area of Nashville.
As Nashville grew to the south, urbanization surrounded the farm, transforming it into a small green island amid a sea of asphalt and concrete.
Due to financial difficulties and competition with the Nashville Zoo (then located in Cheatham County) the park was eventually closed after a few years and was taken over by the Nashville Zoo.
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