To see other species of indigenous animals, visit the Belize Zoo.

BBC: Family fun in Belize

And I only know all this because I made a short visit to the zoo to meet with Lanny Brown, its ungulate manager.

CNN: Apparently This Matters: Baby Baird's tapir

Lisa Carlson of Fort Meade, Maryland, first heard about it on the morning news, and was preparing to explain it to her panda-loving, 5-year-old daughter Amber during their family visit to the zoo Sunday.

CNN: Panda cub dies at Smithsonian's National Zoo

Here in Washington, the stork has paid a visit to the National Zoo.

NPR: National Zoo Welcomes Baby Panda

Yet he keeps fact and fantasy clear enough in his own head and, despite a sympathetic ear, cannot really hide the fact that this book is an extended visit to the epistemic zoo.

ECONOMIST: The other millennium bug

On a recent visit to the National Zoo in Washington, I met with Preston Foerder and Diana Reiss of Hunter College, who showed me what Kandula, a young elephant bull, can do if the problem is presented differently.

WSJ: The Brains of the Animal Kingdom

Charles streetcar, visit the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas or Audubon Zoo and take a brief interlude at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

BBC: Daily deal: The charming heart of New Orleans

She said that in her village the bridegroom was expected to take bushmeat to his in-laws as part of his dowry, but the zoo visit had shown her that there could be other alternatives to bushmeat.

BBC: Keeping Cameroon's primates from the pot