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Nov 29, 2009
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The Question:

What was the first zoo in the U.S.?

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The Philadelphia Zoo opened on July 1, 1874. In addition to being the first zoo in the United States, it opened the first childrens' zoo in the Western Hemisphere in 1937.

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