Racine Zoo
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| Date opened | 1923[1] |
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| Location | Racine, Wisconsin, USA |
| Land area | 32 acres (0.13 km2)[1] |
| Coordinates | 42°44′56″N 87°47′01″W / 42.7488°N 87.7837°WCoordinates: 42°44′56″N 87°47′01″W / 42.7488°N 87.7837°W |
| Memberships | AZA |
| Website | http://racinezoo.org |
The Racine Zoo is a zoo situated on 32 acres (130,000 m2) on the shore of Lake Michigan in Racine, Wisconsin. With more than 100 species of animals, the zoo's collection focuses on species native to Wisconsin, including a room dedicated to reptiles and amphibians indigenous to the state.
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[edit] World Animals
- Red kangaroo
- Common Wallaroo
- Straw-colored Fruit Bat*
- Blue-eyed Black Lemur
- Black-handed Spider Monkey
- White-handed gibbon
- Orangutan
- Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth
- Prehensile-tailed porcupine
- Andean bear
- Brown-nosed coati
- Striped skunk*
- Slender-tailed meerkat
- Transvaal Lion
- Amur Tiger
- Canada Lynx
- Eastern Black Rhinoceros
- Damara Zebra
- Grant's Zebra
- Masai Giraffe
- West Caucasian tur
- Ankole-Watusi (cattle)
- Linne's two-toed sloth*
- Springhaas*
- Fennec Fox
- Fossa
[edit] Amphibians
- Tiger salamander*
- Greater Siren
- American toad
- Marine toad
- Pickerel frog
- Red-eyed tree frog
- Grey tree frog
[edit] Fish
- Klunzinger’s wrasse
- Red Sea sailfin tang
- Beau Gregory damselfish
- Three-stripe damsel
- Domino damsel
- Heniochus butterflyfish
- Blonde naso tang
- Miniatus Grouper
- Volitan lionfish
- Odonus niger trigger
[edit] Birds
- Ostrich
- Emu
- African penguin
- White-breasted Cormorant
- American white pelican
- Cattle egret
- Lesser Adjutant stork*
- Marabou stork*
- Black swan
- Helmeted guineafowl
- Indian peafowl
- Guam Rail*
- White Cockatoo
- Cockatiel
- Yellow-crowned Amazon
- Western Rosella
- Budgerigar
- Lady Amherst's pheasant
- Golden pheasant
[edit] Reptiles
- American alligator*
- Ornate box turtle
- Blanding's Turtle
- Common Musk Turtle
- Desert tortoise*
- Tokay gecko
- Bearded dragon*
- New Guinea ground boa*
- Western fox snake
- Kenyan sand boa*
- Andean milk snake*
- Bullsnake*
- Timber rattlesnake
- Eastern massasauga
- Columbian red-tailed boa
(*) Denotes education program animals not normally on exhibit
The zoo's grounds are also home to a playground, a children's zoo, and a hands-on discovery center; free Sunday band concerts and the Animal Crackers Jazz Series are held during the summer. The Racine Zoo operated as a free-admission attraction until January 2007, when fiscal needs required the introduction of an admission fee.
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