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Zoos: Gladys Porter Zoo - a Potted History

Zoos: Gladys Porter Zoo - a Potted History
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Texas State Aquarium To Open Largest Wildlife Rescue Center In Corpus Christi

CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – The Texas State Aquarium is excited to announce that the new Port of Corpus Christi Center for Wildlife Rescue will hold its Grand Opening on Thursday, March 2nd, 2023, coinciding with Texas Independence Day. The 26,000-square-foot wildlife rescue center will be on the Aquarium’ ....

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Zoo Story – Texas Monthly


In 1909 Fort Worth purchased from a traveling carnival a lion, two bear cubs, an alligator, a coyote, a peacock, and an escalating population of rabbits. Not to be outdone, the Dallas city fathers, who boasted only some native stock like raccoons and de-scented skunks, purchased Queenie, a retired circus elephant. Houston began zoo­keeping in 1920 when the National Parks Department presented the city with one lonely bison, who was event­ually joined by a bissonnet, and some dispossessed circus stock.
What began with an animal here and there burgeoned into an enormous and eclectic menagerie for each of Texas’ large cities: San Antonio, Fort Worth, Houston, and Dallas. Collec­tions grew at random and facilities fol­lowed, although often makeshift. These are the zoos that we all grew up with: miscellaneous assortments of animals divided according to species and usually individually caged. ....

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