Animals
The zoo is home to over 200 individual animals representing more than 75 species, including mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects, and birds. The collection includes Lar Gibbons (Hylobates lar), Matschie's Tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei), and Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). The zoo also participates in several AZA Species Survival Plan (SSP) programs, for Lar Gibbons and Matschie's Tree-kangaroo as well as for Oriental Small-clawed Otter (Amblonyx cinereus), Red Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia rubra), and Ocelots (Leopardus pardalis).
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“What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves. Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
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—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
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