Attendance
The zoo's attendance has been rising in the last few years, but never to the point when it was free to all. It hopes in the future to have one million visitors to qualify for a regional zoo.
- 1920: 2,000,000 visitors (when the zoo was free)
- 1984: 100,000 visitors (after the renovated Children's Zoo opened)
- 1988: 35,000 visitors
- 1990: 200,000 visitors (after the African Tropical Forest opened in 1989)
- 1993: 132,832 visitors
- 1994: 153,310 visitors
- 1996: 130,000 visitors
- 1997: 130,000 visitors
- 1998: 240,000 visitors
- 2006: 266,997 visitors
- 2007: 308,166 visitors
- 2008: 326,543 visitors
- 2009: 342,313 visitors
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“We, too, had good attendance once,
Hearers and hearteners of the work;
Aye, horsemen for companions,
Before the merchant and the clerk
Breathed on the world with timid breath.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)