The AmericaJR.com Web Team visited the World Famous San Diego Zoo during their recent vacation. The San Diego Zoo is a zoo in Balboa Park, San Diego, California housing over 3,700 animals of more than 650 species and subspecies. Its parent organization, San Diego Zoo Global, is one of the largest zoological membership associations in the world, with more than 250,000 member households and 130,000 child memberships, representing more than a half million people. The San Diego Zoo was a pioneer in the concept of open-air, cageless exhibits that re-create natural animal habitats. It is one of the few zoos in the world that houses and successfully breeds the giant panda. In 2013, the zoo added a new Koalafornia Adventure exhibit, providing an updated Australian animal experience.
Main entrance to the San Diego Zoo
AmericaJR.com’s Jerome, Jason and Gloria Rzucidlo
Map of the San Diego Zoo
Take an airborne shortcut over the treetops to the other end of the Zoo and enjoy spectacular views of the Zoo, its animal and plant collection, and surrounding Balboa Park
The Skyfari Aerial Tram runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
The Klauber-Shaw Reptile House
The Ethiopian Mountain Viper snake
Jerdon’s Pit Viper snake
The Blue-Spotted Tree Monitor
This brightly colored monitor lizard was first discovered in 2002 on Batanta Island, off the coast of New Guinea.
The Angolan Python snake
The snakes in this exhibit hatched at the Dallas Zoo.
Welcome to the Children’s Zoo
AmericaJR.com’s Jerome Rzucidlo stands next to a gorilla statue
The Discovery Playground
The North American Porcupine
It eats tree bark in the winter and leaves, seeds and grass in the spring.
The Guyanan Tamandua
Spineless Marvels exhibit
Giant Cave Roach
It is known as the “decomposer”
Predator: Assassin bug
The Jade-headed buffalo beetle
Gardner: Cactus longhorn beetle
The Hissing cockroach is known as the “decomposer”
Statue of Harry M. Wegeforth, M.D., Founder of San Diego Zoological Society
For tickets and more information about the San Diego Zoo, visit www.sandiegozoo.org.
