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DETROIT ZOO
Detroit (Royal Oak) – 8450 West Ten Mile Road (I-75 to I-696 West – Woodward
Avenue Exit 16) 48068. Phone: (248) 398-0900 info. http://detroitzoo.org. Hours:
Daily 10:00am-5:00pm (April – October). Daily 10:00am-4:00pm. (November-
March). Admission: $11.00 adult, $9.00 senior (62+), $7.00 child (2-12). $5.00
Parking fee. Miscellaneous: Picnic areas and playground. Strollers and Adult
roller chairs available for rent. Giraffe Feedings (seasonal – $5.00 per person)
offer personal food feedings off the new platforms!

Simply put…your family is in for a real day of adventure and fun when visiting the Detroit Zoo. The world’s largest polar bear exhibit, the Arctic Ring of Life, is a lifelike trek to the North Pole’s tundra, open sea and ice mountains. Start outside and curve around the exhibit to the spectacular 70 foot long clear tunnel (Polar Passage) which takes visitors underneath diving and swimming polar bears and seals. Their antics and casual behavior will entertain you for most of the visit (plan 45 minutes to one hour just at this exhibit)! What a fun learning experience for the kids to see the Inuit peoples and their interaction w/ Arctic animals. Here’s a few of the other, constantly changing exhibits that you’ll see: The Mandrill Exhibit (a very colorful baboon), The Wilson Aviary Wing (30 species of birds in a large free-flying building – much like an indoor jungle – there is even a waterfall), The Penguinarium (love that name! – see underwater views of these birds that cannot fly), The Chimps of Harambee (a forest setting with rock habitats…what a show!), and The Wildlife Interpretive Gallery (huge aquarium, theater, hummingbird and butterfly garden). Visitors can now enjoy some of the most fascinating animals in a whole new way. Instead of looking through glass or over a moat, patrons will have the chance to get face to face with 17 red kangaroos – from inside the Australian Outback Adventure exhibit! Visitors move along a winding path bordered by knee-high cables on both sides, while the kangaroos are free to bound wherever they want. The simulated outback is complete with re-created settlement buildings, termite mounds, and Aboriginal artifacts. Can you leap as far as the kangaroo can? And if all this wasn’t enough…take an excursion on the famous Detroit Zoo Miniature Railroad (it transports over 500,000 passengers a year).

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