Woodland Park Zoo, which occupies the western half of Seattle's (USA) Woodland Park, near Green Lake, began as a small menagerie on the Woodland Park estate of Guy C. Phinney, Canadian-born lumber mill owner and real estate developer. Opened in 1899, the 188-acre Woodland Park was sold to the city for $5,000 in cash and the assumption of a $95,000 mortgage on December 28, 1899, by Phinney's wife (Phinney had died six years earlier, in 1893). The sum was so large that the Seattle mayor vetoed the acquisition, only to be over-ruled by the city council. In 1902, the Olmsted Brothers firm of Boston was hired to design the city's parks, including Woodland Park, and the next year the collection of the private Leschi Park menagerie was moved to Phinney Ridge. Woodland Park, looking southeast across Green Lake Woodland Park is a 90. ... Nickname: Location of Seattle in King County and Washington Coordinates: Country United States State Washington County King County Incorporated December 2 1869 Government  - Type Mayor-council  - Mayor Greg Nickels (NP) Area  - City  142. ... Official language(s) English Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Area  Ranked 18th  - Total 71,342 sq mi (184,827 km²)  - Width 240 miles (385 km)  - Length 360 miles (580 km)  - % water 6. ... An acre is the name of a unit of area in a number of different systems, including Imperial units and United States customary units. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity. ... The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (formerly the American Zoo and Aquarium Association), or AZA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of zoos and aquariums in the areas of conservation, education, science, and recreation. ... Nickname: Location of Seattle in King County and Washington Coordinates: Country United States State Washington County King County Incorporated December 2 1869 Government  - Type Mayor-council  - Mayor Greg Nickels (NP) Area  - City  142. ... Woodland Park, looking southeast across Green Lake Woodland Park is a 90. ... Green Lake Green Lake is a neighborhood in north central Seattle, Washington, USA. Its centerpiece is the lake and park after which it is named. ... Giraffes in Sydneys Taronga Zoo A zoological garden, zoological park, or zoo is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures and displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred. ... This article or section should include material from Saw mill A sawmill is a facility where logs are cut into boards. ... Real estate is a legal term that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings. ... Year 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... This article is about the legal mechanism used to secure property in favor of a creditor. ... December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ... Year 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Olmsted Brothers company was an extremely influential landscape design firm in the United States, formed in 1898 by step-brothers John Charles Olmsted (1852-1920) and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. ... Nickname: Location in Massachusetts, USA Coordinates: Country United States State Massachusetts County Suffolk County Government  - Mayor Thomas M. Menino (D) Area  - City  89. ... Leschi Park, 1908 Leschi Park, 2004 Leschi Park is an 18. ...

As of 2004, the zoo includes 65 acres (263,000 m²) of exhibits and public spaces. It is open to the public daily, and an entrance fee of $10.50 per adult (13-64); $7.50 for children (3-12); free for children 2 and under is required, October 1-April 30. The fee goes to $15.00 for adults and $10.00 for children from May 1-September 30. Its collection includes: 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• 1,145 animal specimens
• 290 animal species
• 22 arthropod colonies
• 7,000 trees
• 50,000+ shrubs and herbs
• 1,000+ plant species

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Exhibits at Woodland Park Zoo

Woodland Park Zoo has won more Best National Exhibit awards from the Association of Zoos & Aquariums than any other zoological institution except the Bronx Zoo in New York. It has long been a pioneer in the field of immersion exhibits: Woodland Park Zoo created what is generally considered the world's first immersion exhibit, a gorilla habitat, which opened in the late 1970s. The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA; previously American Zoo and Aquarium Association) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of zoos and aquariums in the areas of conservation, education, science, and recreation. ... This article is about the zoo, for the tv series see The Bronx Zoo (TV). ... NY redirects here. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, In the Western world, the focus shifted from the social activism of the sixties to social activities for ones own pleasure, save for environmentalism, which continued in a very visible way. ...

• Zoomazium - the zoo's newest exhibit, opened in May 2006. Zoomazium (a combination of "zoo" and "gymnasium") is an interactive playspace for children. It includes nature-themed playspaces as well as a Nature Exchange desk and open areas for interactive programs. It was built to be extremely energy-efficient and even includes a "green roof", with a full-scale garden of native plants growing on the top of the building.

• Willawong Station - This building is a chance for kids and their families to feed and interact with Australian birds and parrots in a free flying exhibit.

• Tropical Rain Forest - this exhibit won a Best Exhibit award when opened in 1992. A walkway leads up to the building with viewing into a habitat for jaguars (opened in 2003), complete with underwater viewing. Nearby is a jungle researcher's tent. Inside the building is a myriad of animals from Central and South America, including ocelots, poison arrow frogs, bushmasters, tamarins, toucans, and a wide variety of tropical birds. An outdoor loop houses several African rain forest species, including red ruffed lemurs, colobus monkeys, and a rambling gorilla exhibit.

• Tropical Asia - this consists of two components. The first, Elephant Forest, won a national exhibit award when it opened in 1990. It features a 1.5-acre yard complete with a full-depth swimming pool for four female elephants, three Asian and one African. Hansa, the youngest, was born in 2000. Recently the zoo has come under fire from animal-rights groups for its care regarding its elephants. Anger arose when the zoo chose to send one elephant, Bamboo, to the nearby Point Defiance Zoo rather than to an elephant sanctuary [1]in Tennessee(the move did not ultimately work out and Bamboo is still at WPZ). The second part of the exhibit, Trail of Vines, takes the visitor on a journey through several different Southeast Asian rainforest habitats, featuring numerous endangered species. Beginning with Malayan tapirs, it moves on to lion-tailed macaques, Indian pythons, and finally large indoor/outdoor habitats for the siamangs and orangutans.

• Northern Trail - this exhibit also won a national Best Exhibit award when opened in 1994. It carries the visitor through the northern habitats of Tundra, Taiga, and Montane. It is landscaped to resemble an actual trail in Alaska's Denali National Park. The Northern Trail is home to a variety of North American animal species, including gray wolves, arctic foxes, grizzly bears, mountain goats, bald eagles, and Roosevelt elk (which are actually endemic to Washington).

• African Savanna - This also earned national Best Exhibit honors. The first of its kind when it opened in 1980, WPZ's savanna inspired the building of similar exhibits across the country. The visitor enters through a model African village, which blends in elements of African culture as well as important messages about the human/animal balance in conservation. The main "savanna" houses giraffes, zebras, gazelle, oryx, and [[ostrich]es (added in May 2007), while two connected exhibits house hippopotami and patas monkeys. As of May 2007, visitors may hand-feed the giraffes for a small fee. Hidden moats allow these yards appear to be part of a continuous landscape. In addition to the herbivores, two separate yards are home to lions and African wild dogs.

• Other highlight animals at Woodland Park Zoo include Sumatran tigers (which have bred several times in the past years), a Raptor Center and accompanying flight demonstration, Japanese Serows (WPZ is one of a handful of zoos outside Japan displaying these threatened mountain goat relatives), a Family Farm exhibit, Bug World, snow leopards, and several species of hornbills (with which the zoo does considerable conservation work in Thailand).

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Accessibility

The zoo is located southwest of Green Lake, and usually approached from Phinney Ave or North 59th street. The park is open daily beginning at 9:30 am, until 4 pm October 1 through April 30, and 6 pm May 1 through September 30. There are a few places named Green Lake: In Canada: Green Lake, a lake in British Columbia In the United States: Green Lake, a lake near Syracuse, New York Green Lake, a lake in Seattle, Washington Green Lake, a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington Green Lake Park, a park in Seattle...

External links

• Woodland Park Zoo Web Site