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From haunted houses to concerts to events just for kids, here are 13 ways to celebrate Halloween in Memphis. Memphis Halloween events: 13 ways to scare up a good time, from Zoo Boo to Spooky Skate ...
The zoo was established on April 4, 1906, with $1,200 from the Memphis Park Commission. In August 1906, 23 cages and concrete bear enclosures were built with another $3,628 thanks to the head of the commission, Col. Robert Galloway.
Sullivan, outgoing Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland, Memphis Zoo President and CEO Matt Thompson and U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen gathered Tuesday to announce the funding and the official start of the ...
This is not the first dinosaur exhibit to grace the Memphis Zoo grounds. Its first exhibit in 1992 saw almost 250,000 visitors, and it was brought back twice more — once in 2012 and most ...
The Animal Game: Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674737341. OCLC 946906577. Flank, Lenny (2021). The Zoo Tourist: Visiting America's Zoos and Aquariums. Red and Black Publishers. ISBN 9781610011440. OCLC 1400972328. Nyhuis, Allen W. (2008).
The Zoo is set on 76 acres (31 ha), of which approximately 55 acres (22 ha) are developed. In 2008, the Memphis Zoo was ranked "#1 Zoo in the U.S." by TripAdvisor.com. [15] In independent surveys commissioned by TripAdvisor, the Memphis Zoo scored a 90 percent overall satisfaction score, almost 25 percent higher than the national zoo average.
The Memphis Zoo currently has one fishing cat, a three-year-old female named Korra. Like other members of her species, Korra is feisty. As associate curator Anna Chaney said: “These cats don’t ...
The Memphis Zoo, which opened in 1906, has been a staple of the Memphis area for over 100 years. There are 76 acres of land dedicated to the zoo within Overton Park. There are 76 acres of land ...