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Washington Park Zoo in Indiana
Washington Park Zoo in Indiana
115 Lakshore Drive
Michigan City, IN 46360
USA
Mixed Exhibits at the Washington Park Zoo in Indiana
Mixed species exhibits provide an interactive experience where the animals’ lives are enriched through this community living. Visitors also enjoy observing these interactions as well as the increased activity levels in the exhibits. To enhance the learning experience even more the zoo staff has and will continue to provide more natural plant scapes to recreate the exhibited animals wild habitat.
Some examples of mixed exhibits here at the Washington Park Zoo is the – South America exhibit – Rheas along with Llamas and an Australian area of Emus and Black swans.
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new primate house
New Primate House opening in 2008
The Washington Park Zoo will be opening the totally renovated Primate house spring of 2008. Gone are the bars and tiled walls making way for more natural exhibits with glass fronts for the up close view.
The new exhibits will house the Hamadryas baboons and ring tail lemurs as before but we have added 2 male Black Handed Spider monkeys, a family of Cotton top Tamarins and Golden Handed Tamarins.
washington park zoo
The Washington Park Zoo covers 15 acres, on a hilly sand dune, close to Lake Michigan, where only nine acre are used for animal exhibits. The zoo exhibits more than 220 animal of 90 different species found throughout the world. The zoo is being developed into a modernistic "biopark" where animals are exhibited in natural settings, surrounded by botanical plantings.
Among its exhibits are the Lion House, exhibiting African Lions and Bengal Tigers, the Education Center, where the discovery room is located housing animal skulls, skins and education animals, the Rotary Castle Building which houses our collection of cold-blooded creatures including lizards, snakes and frogs. Winged Wonders Exhibit our walk through Aviary where free flying bird fly over head and the Farm in the Zoo exhibit miniature domestic horses, donkeys, pigs and goats that are allowed to be fed by visitors
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