Zak's Cincy Zoo and Coastal Aquarium

Date opened	June 2, 2011
Location	Cincinnati, Ohio
Land area	70 acres
Number of animals	115+
Number of species	40+

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Zoo Map

The Cincinnati Zoo and Coastal Aquarium is a national treasure with a rating of 5 stars and is no doubt the greatest zoo on the planet. It has an outstanding collection of animals including pandas, manatees, orangutans, panthers, and even orcas. Unfortunately, the zoo has very little space with a small number of species, and the zoo isn't even real, it is a Zoo Tycoon Production. The zoo got their former name "Wild Animals" from being the worldwide leader in freeing animals into the wild.

Admission is free so the zoo gets its money from animal donations. When a successfully breeding animal pair has produced many offspring, they stay at the zoo for rest of their lives. An animal is only freed into the wild if it is either feeling home sick and complaining, if the exhibit it's in is getting over crowded, if the zoo is about to build a new exhibit and the species isn't part of it, and or if it is an extremely Critacally endangered animal who needs to stay in zoos to repopulate. But almost every offspring gets freed or transferred to a different zoo.

Working with Pandas[]

The Cincy Zoo leads the world in captivating pandas, panda births, and setting pandas into the wild. The zoo has had more than 40 Giant pandas and have had over 20 births and over 30 pandas set free. Because of this activity, the Cincy Zoo is called the "Sexiest Zoo in the World" (after the former name the "Sexiest Zoo in America"), along with having the most endangered animal births and the most animal births than any other zoo on the planet.

History[]

Someone by the name of Zak Handel bought out the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Cincinnati, OH and changed the name and the format dramatically and made it so much more of a better zoo on June 2, 2011. The reason there is so little space in the zoo is because the animals have larger exhibits than needed.

EXHIBITS[]

The Tropics Trail[]

Venture into the world of the rain forest where lush, green foliage and beautiful orchids envelop guests along a winding path. Playful orangutans, inquisitive gibbons and agile white Bengal tigers are just a few of the animals waiting to be discovered at each turn. Beauty and unique wildlife first attract you, but the Tropics Trail also showcases several of the world's biodiversity "hotspots"—areas especially rich in species found nowhere else that are also at extreme risk of destruction.The lemur and leopard exhibit takes the biggest risk a zoo has ever done. While the leopards are on their own island, the lemurs are right next to them, only being protected by deep water and a rope fencing creating the thrill of a lifetime.

Bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci)
Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)
White Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris)
Black crested gibbon (Nomascus concolor)
Common Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta)
Black jaguar (Panthera onca)
Pygmy hippopotamus (Hexaprotodon liberiensis)
Okapi (Okapia johnstoni)
Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii)
Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx)

Reptile House[]

Stroll by the former sight of the Cincinnati Zoo's reptile house and the former sight of the oldest zoo building in America featuring over 35 species of reptiles. The CZACA set them all free and went out on their own in the wild to get new reptiles.

King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)
Red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)
Common Chameleon (Chamaeleo chamaeleon)

Endangered and Deadly[]

Gallop along with the one the most endangered horses and one of the most critically endangered animals in the world, the Przewalski's horse. The CZACA leads the world in Przewalski's horse births with over 10. The next animals featured, is considered the most unusually geographical animal on the planet, the killer penguin. This five foot tall, red-eyed,sharp-toothed penguin was created in the Dino Creation Lab after the machine malfunctioned. The zoo tried to put an Emperor penguin in with the killer penguin but the killer attacked and killed it. The zoo has later found out that the killer penguin is the most dangerous animal on Earth, it could even kill a T-Rex.

Przewalski's Horse
Killer penguin

Kings of the Congo[]

This one acre tropical rainforest exhibit features Jomo, Muke, Samantha and Kwashi the zoo's gorillas. Guests can view the large apes over a canyon or walk down into it and get face-to-face with the zoo's stars.

Mountain Gorilla

Rhino Reserve=[]

This area is to help conserve three species of rhino from extinction. Guests can get so close to the rhinos in their new indoor wallows, only being protected by glass. Parts of this area will soon be called Elephant Alley to then help conservate the largest land animals on Earth. Even though there are only around 60 Javan rhinos on the planet, the zoo is starting to free the offspring to Java when they are at adulthood, to help repopulate the most endangered rhino species.

Southern White rhinoceros
Eastern Black rhinoceros
Javan rhinoceros

Dragons of Southeast Asia[]

The zoo's two dragons share a special exhibit with outdoor and indoor areas allowing them to stay warm during in the Dragon's Lair.

Komodo dragon

The Vanishings and the Giants[]

Look up at two of some of the most rarest animals on the planet the snow lopard and the panda. Also get close to the tallest and largest animals on land at the largest exhibit at the zoo. The zoo has recently added a giraffe and elephant house for the animals to come in for a nice, cool and shady rest.

Giant panda
Snow leopard
Masai giraffe
African bush elephant

The Kanga'Walk[]

Get close to one of the world’s weirdest and most wonderful animals from Down Under – experience the Kangaroo Walkabout. Guests’ll fully immerse themselves in the kangaroos’ world as they meander around their habitat, and view them indoors and out. Guests can view the kangaroos outside the walking path.

Red kangaroo

The Coastal Aquarium[]

This is the first indoor exhibit at the zoo accessible for visitors. Walk around a gallery of jellies, an octopus, and other tropical fish. Guests can bark with the sea lions and view them inside and out. Lastly visitors can watch charismic manatees fly through the water in the largest manatee exhibit in the world. The CZACA is one of the only two places be part of the manatee and conservation program where the zoos free the manatees in the wild. Two of the manatees are set to be freed in the near future.

West Indian Manatee
Giant Pacific octopus
Lined seahorse
Percula clownfish
Blue hippo tang
West Coast sea nettle
Spotted jelly
Red lionfish
California sea lion
Killer Whale

The Invertebrate Raid[]

Peek into a small, but unusual collection of creepy crawlers. The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden used to have the largest building dedicated to bugs and other species. The zoo even got an award for its appreciation towards invertebrates.

Goliath bird-eater tarantula
Hercules beetle
Desert Hairy Scorpion

Future[]

Antler Scrambler[]

Once the giraffes and the elephants pass away, the exhibit they are in now will be turned into smaller enclosures for certain hooved animals. Bongos, moose, gazelles, sable antelope and many more antlered ungulates of the world will be exhibited. Below is the plans.

Horned hike — Horned Hike plans for October 28

Elephant Alley[]

When Antler Scrambler is complete, parts of Rhino Reserve and Dangerous and Endangered will be renovated and transformed into large exhibit for African and Indian elepahnts. It will even feature an elephant house and an outdoor indoor exhibit for aardvarks. The Javan rhinos will stay for conservation purposes.