The Zoo Today
Newquay Zoo is Cornwall's only zoo and now covers over 13 acres (53,000 m2) of land, as well as housing 300 animals of over 130 species. An expansion of 3.5 acres (14,000 m2) opened as an African Savanna area from Easter 2009 followed by a new Philippines area housing endangered Fishing Cat, Visayan Warty Pig and Philippine spotted deer.
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Famous quotes containing the words zoo and/or today:
“The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowhere in a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still the most important law today and, as such, has remained the basic concern of all movements which have at heart the community of human activities and of human existence in general.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)