Oregon Zoo
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The Oregon Zoo, originally the Portland Zoo and later the Washington Park Zoo, is a zoo in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is located in Washington Park, approximately 2 miles southwest of downtow
Main entrance in January 2024.
Washington Park was known as City Park until 1909. Charles M. Meyers was the first park keeper and he transformed the wilderness area into a park filled with drives, walkways, gardens, lawns and a zoo.
The Continuity of Life Forms, a 1959 mosaic by Willard Martin, is one of the many artworks at the zoo.
The Washington Park and Zoo Railway's Zooliner train.
Pygmy rabbit
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The pygmy rabbit is a rabbit species native to the United States. It is one of the only two native rabbit species in North America to dig its own burrow. The pygmy rabbit differs significantly from sp
Oregon Zoo
…a community science project to monitor the American pika and was the first zoo in the world to successfully breed critically endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits and Oregon silverspot butterflies. In 2012 the Oregon Zoo became the first zoo to draw blood samples from polar bears without the use of anesthesia…
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