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• Louisville Zoo
  The Louisville Zoo opened in 1969 on 135 acres in the city's Poplar Level neighborhood and now houses more than 1300 animals, birds and reptiles, in their Louisville, Kentucky location. In the 2006-2007 season, they welcomed 810,546 visitors, the most ever and continue to grow and make great use of the property they have. The zoo received the land in the 1960s from the Ben Collins estate, and the majority of money to open was donated by Louisville philanthropist, James Graham Brown. There was a terrible accident on the zoo train in 2009, and the zoo is in the middle of a courts lawsuit that keeps the train ride closed until it can be settled. The entrance to the zoo was enhanced in December of 2009, by the local clock maker, Adam Burckle, who installed a unique type of clock that is based on the racetrack at Churchill Downs and was unveiled this past spring. They opened a new display called Glacier Run Splash Park in 2007 that offers visitors and especially the children a place to cool off in fun style on those hot days, and is part of the new $25 million anchor display called Glacier Run. The exhibit will open in 2011, and be a 4.3 acre outdoor exhibit based on an old mining camp located on the edge of a glacier that will concentrate on numerous types of arctic animals including polar bears, reindeer, snowy owls and arctic foxes. There will also be a 200 seat theater, party rooms ready to rent, classrooms and viewing stations above and beneath the water level.

Hertz Rental Cars Louisville Standiford Field -  600 Terminal Dr. Ste. 11

Atlantic Aviation Hertz Car Rentals
 1131 Standiford Ave.

Hertz Rental Cars Clarksville
 1370 Veterans Pkwy.

• Louisville Zoo Too
  There are basically six geographic regions showcased, the African Veldt, Australian outback, Asian Plains, Aquatics, North and South American panoramas. Their four acre Gorilla forest exhibit won an award in 2003, from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums that contains three patas monkeys, four pygmy hippos and eleven western lowland gorillas. It is a circular enclosure that separates the visitors from the primates by thick glass so they can actually get face to face with these unusual creatures, with numerous places to view them. Their herpaquarium houses 100 species of fish, reptiles and amphibians from around the world, with one featured called King Louie, an albino American alligator about six feet long. The zoo contains the very endangered Panamanian golden frogs that they are trying to help keep from extinction because their numbers have gone down since their habitat is declining and a fungus called chytrid. There is so much to see that it would take quite a while and many pages to detail it all, so the best thing to do is to visit it when you get to Louisville the next time you go. It is a great adventure, the perfect place for the family to leisurely stroll around, taking the time you want to look at the most popular animals to you.

February 11, 2011