Chapultepec Zoo
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Chapultepec Zoo is a zoo located in Chapultepec Park; it is one of four zoos near Mexico City, and the best known Mexican zoo. It was founded July 6, 1923, by Mexican biologist Alfonso Luis Herrera us
Zoo entrance (2011)
Golden-headed lion tamarin, an endangered species endemic to Bahia, Brazil, at the zoo. Four tamarins are pictured, with two babies clinging to the lower tamarin's back.
Xin Xin, one of the pandas currently living at the zoo
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Mexican wolf
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The Mexican wolf, also known as the lobo mexicano is a subspecies of gray wolf native to eastern and southeastern Arizona and western and southern New Mexico and fragmented areas of northern Mexico. H
Chapultepec Zoo
…successfully breed the species in captivity), California condors (first institution outside of the United States to successfully breed the species) and Mexican wolves (first litter of cubs born to released wolves). The zoo opened in 1924. The biologist Alfonso L. Herrera, founder of Chapultepec Zoo, wanted to recreate…
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The Aztec god Xolotl, depicted here in the 15th century Codex Fejervary-Mayer, may have been based on the Mexican wolf rather than a dog as once believed.
A pair of Mexican wolves with pups at Sevilleta Wolf Management Facility in Socorro, New Mexico