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Zoos
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Sep 9, 2024, 11:09 AM
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How many zoos have y’all been to? I’ve actually been to like 15 around the country. Used to always go when we went to new cities with my dad’s work when I was little.
Today im checking out the Omaha zoo which I supposed to be one of the best in the world. Usually considered a solid 2nd best in the USA after San Diego.
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3. Asheboro, NC. Riverbanks in Columbia.
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Sep 9, 2024, 11:16 AM
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And Williams Brice stadium, also in Columbia.
Maybe a few others. I just put this on here so I could make a coot joke. GET IT?
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The roach will definitely be a zoo on Saturday .
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Sep 9, 2024, 11:47 AM
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It’s will be even worse bc they think they have a chance after beating a crap team. I’m looking forward to our game against the coots. Our defense will eat that QB up in his first time at the valley.
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Sharkgirl worked at the Omaha Zoo once upon a when.***
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Sep 9, 2024, 11:18 AM
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Did she work w the aquarium part?
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Sep 9, 2024, 11:44 AM
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Is that how she got her nickname? Asking for a friend…
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Yes at the aquarium part, but that isn't fully how she got
Sep 9, 2024, 2:47 PM
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the nickname.
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She Bobbited someone?****
Sep 9, 2024, 3:19 PM
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Top TigerNet [28007]
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Ive been to these zoos
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Sep 9, 2024, 11:26 AM
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Greenville
Columbia
Atlanta
New Orleans
San Antonio
Dallas
Houston
Washington DC
Chicago
OKC
San Francisco
New York
Calgary
San Diego (when I was like 10 though so barely remember)
And probably a couple others I’m forgetting
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Have you been to the two zoos in DC?
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Sep 9, 2024, 11:27 AM
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National Zoo and Congress
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Omaha Zoo is great
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Sep 9, 2024, 11:29 AM
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I enjoyed it a lot
I’ve been to 4 zoos I think
Washington DC (Nat’l Zoo)
Omaha
Riverbanks
And Asheboro
Hoping to add Greenville soon and some out in the west coast
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Which one was your favorite ?
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Sep 9, 2024, 11:41 AM
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I actually really enjoy zoos as I was always an animal enthusiast. I wanted to be a veterinarian but did a report on it in high school and back then they made shiat for money so I pivoted. Should have ran with it bc now with your own practice you can make half a million easy. People are much more willing to spend bank on a pet now than 30 years ago when Dad took him out back of the log cabin w a shotgun and put it out of its misery if dog got hurt.
For reference my first years we lived in a log cabin my father built in the Adirondack mountains of upstate NY. Goats, sheep, chickens, German Shepards, grow room… etc.
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I think the Atlanta one is good and the Houston one was really nice actually
Sep 9, 2024, 8:31 PM
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Omaha is up there as well based on my visit today. Very large and one of the cool parts is that it comes with an aquarium as well.
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Hollywild
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Sep 9, 2024, 11:43 AM
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lol
Riverbanks,
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo with the Will Rogers Shrine
NC Zoo in Asheboro
Gator land Zoo in Fla
Grandfather mountain
Western NC Nature Center
Probably more as a kid but my memory ain’t so good
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Columbia, Greenville, Asheboro, Bee City near Charleston
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Sep 9, 2024, 11:45 AM
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Bee City was fun and sad. We brought in beers and drank while walking around. Sad animals everywhere.
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There is a zoo a few miles south of me now that my family has been to
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Sep 9, 2024, 11:46 AM
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but I have avoided it so far.
I feel like it MIGHT have something to do with the TigerKing guy and Doc Antle, not sure though.
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Re: There is a zoo a few miles south of me now that my family has been to
Sep 9, 2024, 2:55 PM
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I wonder if animals had enough thought process would they commit suicide.
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Sep 9, 2024, 11:51 AM
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In those type situations. Like a penguin in a 12/12 enclosure w a 6/6 pool as seen in Charleston aquarium before. Surely if you gave it opposable thumbs, a conscience, and a handgun… lights out
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Bee City Zoo is in Cottageville, SC
Sep 9, 2024, 3:23 PM
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I had no clue, went with people from Summerville and they drove. It was in the middle of NOWHERE.
https://www.beecityzoo.com/
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I've never heard of this.
Sep 9, 2024, 3:28 PM
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Intredasting.
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Sorry to harsh you mellow but I have come to see them as mostly animal cruelty.
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Sep 9, 2024, 11:48 AM
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Sure there’s some benefit to protecting endangered species but overall I believe wild animals need to be in the wild.
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Used to be that way for sure
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Sep 9, 2024, 11:52 AM
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most of them now do a great job of providing a fairly natural habitat and there is a lot of evidence that people are more likely to preserve natural habitat if they have a place to come and see what lives there.
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Agree. There is an enormous difference between a well-managed zoo
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Sep 9, 2024, 11:58 AM
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and old-school zoos with rows of animal cages.
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Re: Zoos
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Sep 9, 2024, 11:48 AM
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Chicago Zoo in the park in the loop is absolutely free. There is no cost to the public.
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Let see, probably forgetting a few. Also have a few that aren't full-on zoos
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Sep 9, 2024, 11:54 AM
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but have zoo animals/exhibits.
Greenville
Asheboro NC
Riverbanks
National Zoo (DC)
St Louis
Northwest Trek (Washington St)
Disney Animal Kingdom
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
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I went to Zoo Night at the B&L Warehouse in Athens, GA in fall of 1980.
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Sep 9, 2024, 12:50 PM
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Wednesday night, $5 cover, they hand you a red Solo cup when you walk in and draft, cheap wine, and well drinks were free from 9pm until midnight. Maybe a dozen of us from Johnstone made the trip down and for some reason we all decided that whiskey sours would be the drink of the night. I vomited on the table we were all sitting at, I think I was one of four from our group that conspicuously vomited inside the club that night. One of our group had come to Clemson from Athens to try and walk on the baseball team...under Bill Wilhelm, who notoriously did not keep walk-ons. I woke up at his parents' house the next morning, thank goodness they were out of town that week.
IT WAS A GLORIOUS NIGHT.
I think.
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Been
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Sep 9, 2024, 12:51 PM
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Greenville
Columbia
Atlanta
Taronga Zoo in Sydney which was the best
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view from the bird show
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Sep 9, 2024, 2:46 PM
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Not sure if they still have it but..
Sep 9, 2024, 2:47 PM
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Callaway Gardens had a kick ### bird show.
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Can't remember them all. But I love San Diego Zoo.
Sep 9, 2024, 2:43 PM
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Also the Atl zoo is only zoo in USA with Pandas. San Diego about to get some soon. Think I heard atl will have to send their's back sometime.
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Did DC lose theirs?***
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Sep 9, 2024, 2:50 PM
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Probably. I don't think they get to stay for too long.***
Sep 9, 2024, 2:55 PM
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Sep 9, 2024, 2:49 PM
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went to the Atlanta Zoo once in college. bunch of us got super baked and just walked around haha
and we go to the one in Nashville all the time w/ the rugrats. got a nice lap we can hit to spend mayyyybe 1.5 hrs then high tail it home.
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Re: Zoos
Sep 9, 2024, 2:50 PM
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I think I can remember them all, but...
-Washington DC. Fantastic.
-St. Louis. Pretty solid.
-Riverbanks. Good.
-Greenville. Okay.
-Hollywild. This #### show is horrific and should have been shut down ages ago.
Dang, I think that's it.
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Re: Zoos
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Sep 9, 2024, 3:21 PM
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Wildlife Safari in Oregon
Honolulu Zoo
Norfolk Zoo
Luray Zoo - near Luray Caverns in VA
Portland Zoo
Animal Kingdom
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