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Akron Zoological Park
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3 reviews for Akron Zoological Park
Only three of the fifteen or so penguins at the zoo's "Penguin Point" exhibit were giving the visitors a show today. Nevertheless, this is a must see exhibit. Given that it was a 40 something degree morning, and the Magellan Penguins are a warm weather penguin species, I suspect the other penguins were "out back" drinking hot chocolate with mini marshmallows.
The gift store has many plush penguins of various sizes, penguin fridge magnets, penguin puzzles, but didn't have any penguin shirts. They better work on that last issue.
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10/5/2008
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I have to give props to whoever designed the gardens, architecture, and overall aesthetic of this place. It appears relatively new, well-kept, and clean, presenting as an oddly green swath amidst what is generally a seemingly ghetto area of Akron. However, and this is me being absolutely honest, I don't come to a zoo to see the gardens.
Or the stonework of the buildings.
Or the well-manicured front lawn.
Perhaps the Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, and San Diego zoos have spoiled me in regard to my zoological expectations, but I couldn't help but feel pretty disenchanted throughout my experience here. We wanted to bring our one-year-old daughter along for her first real "zoo" experience, but couldn't help feeling kind of sad the entire time. For starters, this place is small. If you booked it, you could probably hit most of the exhibits in about 45 minutes to an hour. Their lions, separated from goats by a glass wall (hello, genius!), back up against their tiger pen, lending the onlooker a general sense of feline malaise, first among those with manes, and then the striped version. No elephants, no giraffes, no hippos, no polar bears. In general, the usual array of animals one comes to hope for in a zoo's collection is greatly unrepresented. They do, however, have an American donkey, just in case you've never viewed an ass in the wild.
Small, cramped, overpriced for what it is.
However, the plants look nice.
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I just took my nephew (7) there a few days ago. We went to see the jellyfish exhibit. It's a decent zoo. He was happy we went, even though there isn't a great variety of animals. It's clean, well-tended and there are lots of informational talks and tours. The staff was knowledgeable and friendly.
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