Toledo Zoo Amphitheatre Schedule

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It also is only the second zoo in the world to have saddle-billed storks as a part of its collection.

Five of that 300 were produced at the Toledo Zoo. Toledo Zoo - Our Animals and Plants: "Snow Leopards"The Tiger Terrace has African penguins, Amur tigers, Asian sloth bears, and White-naped Cranes.

It features cats, dogs, a greater number of guinea pigs then were in the old Children's Zoo, and a variety of birds.

The Hippoquarium was rated by USA Today as one of the nation's ten best animal exhibits, and was featured in National Geographic.The Aquarium includes 253 different species of animals, with 2800 actual animals in the exhibit.

The zoo began in 1900 as the Toledo Zoological Gardens and operated by the City of Toledo's Parks Board.

The exhibit hatched saddle-billed storks, making the Toledo Zoo one of the five zoos in the world to hatch the animal, and one of three zoos to have them live over a month.