Anyone been to the Childrens Zoo yet this year?

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Sankofa wrote:
kimaliz wrote:
Oliver's Army wrote:Just be glad we have it.
Something that is mainly an educational place for younger children should not be doing that. However I could be wrong.
I don't imagine the animals, environments and feed comes cheap.
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World-class facilities don't come cheap.

If you have ever been to a crappy zoo, especially those in *metro* areas, you would appreciate what a cool place our zoo really is.
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like the Detroit zoo - which I understand is a lot nicer now, but it was a real crap hole for a while there. World class biologists don't come cheap either.
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Sankofa wrote:
kimaliz wrote:
Oliver's Army wrote:Just be glad we have it.
Something that is mainly an educational place for younger children should not be doing that. However I could be wrong.
I don't imagine the animals, environments and feed comes cheap.
Do they recieve any type of funding?
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Do they recieve any type of funding?

$9.50 cover charge

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http://www.kidszoo.org/pdfs/fwczhistory.pdf

On July 3, 1965, the $500,000 Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo, comprising five and one-half acres and 18 exhibits, opened to the public. Attendance that first day was 6,000. From the start, the zoo was one the nation’s few selfsupporting zoos, earning all revenue from admissions, rides, and concessions. The Fort Wayne Zoological Society was established in 1966 as a nonprofit organization to assist in the development and growth of the zoo. To raise funds, the Society sold season passes to the zoo and sponsored emberappreciation events such as the “Zoo- Loo-Auâ€
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Way back in the day, they used to have a Black Bear exhibit roughly where the entrance
to the Indonesian Rain Forest is....... and the gators used to swim in the moat around the
Monkey Island thing,....until one tragic day.
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WBOB wrote:Way back in the day, they used to have a Black Bear exhibit roughly where the entrance
to the Indonesian Rain Forest is....... and the gators used to swim in the moat around the
Monkey Island thing,....until one tragic day.
Now I'd have paid to see that :)
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Lemme get this straight, Al (and anyone else that thinks the zoo is expensive.) Two bucks for a pop is high priced? Where do you buy your food and drink? Wait till you have to drag your kids to a REAL tourist trap. Wizards, Komets, Freedom, McDonalds, BK....all charge a couple bucks (at a minimum) for a drink. Nothing new or out of hand there.

Cmon. Buy the pass. I guarantee you piss away more money than that in a month. Get the pass, the kids love it, and you're not out anything more for the rest of the summer. If money really IS tight, I can think of much more expensive ways to waste an afternoon..let alone potentially five, ten or more....with lots less fun. Pack a cooler, get the pass, and you can enjoy bologna sandwiches and thirty cent Faygos ice cold in the parking lot or at a Franke Park picnic table...then return to the zoo with the already-paid-for pass. Cheaper than a month's worth of cover charges to see your band....or a week's worth of beer, for some.

A no-brainer. Just my .02.
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Well said, tiny.
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tiny wrote:Lemme get this straight, Al (and anyone else that thinks the zoo is expensive.) Two bucks for a pop is high priced? Where do you buy your food and drink? Wait till you have to drag your kids to a REAL tourist trap. Wizards, Komets, Freedom, McDonalds, BK....all charge a couple bucks (at a minimum) for a drink. Nothing new or out of hand there.

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A no-brainer. Just my .02.
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rezin wrote: man.

picnics at the zoo were awesome.
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kimaliz wrote:Well we have been trying very hard to conserve money over the last year.

I can see that the pass would be a better deal, but I cannot be sure enough that we have the time to use it enough for it to be worth it.

I guess I was really supprised at the 2 dollar pop machines and other high costs throughout the park. That is something I would expect at a money grubbing place such as Disney, Universal, or some other Theme Park.

Something that is mainly an educational place for younger children should not be doing that. However I could be wrong.
We always hit up the bakery outlet and bring in our own bread to feed the ducks and fish. If you ask them for a feed bag they fill up a grocery sack for $0.50.
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What is it about the zoo that makes it a "childrens zoo" I've always been unclear on this.
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