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The San Diego Zoo
1916
San Diego, California
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Founded on animals left stranded when the 1915 exposition closed, after a surgeon heard a caged lion roaring and thought the city ought to do better. Belle Benchley ran it from 1927 as the only woman directing a major zoo anywhere, and pushed the open moated enclosures that replaced bars.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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