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7/28/2010 Renata "100 reviews" R. says:

I'd like to visit the Toronto Zoo. I've never been to a Zoo since a grew up. I'd like to go there... uh... on a weekday. If anyone else has a flexible schedule allowing you to spend an afternoon with oooh the animaaals, let me know.
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7/28/2010 Aaron B. says:

This is a possibility for me.  Maybe next week.  I make my own schedule but I've got a lot of work to get done soon.
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7/28/2010 Renata "100 reviews" R. says:

Keep this topic posted with the best days for you, so we can arrange things. I don't drive, so I think I'd like to meet about 10:30 at Kennedy subway - there's a bus to the Zoo there.
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7/30/2010 from Yelp for iPhone Paul "Shop first....eat later" S. says:

They have POLAR BEARS this year!!!
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7/30/2010 Renata "100 reviews" R. says:

Yeah I know. I've never seen a bear!!! Now I can say I'm in Canada!
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7/30/2010 Karl "The 10,000 Screaming Brides of Peter Mansbridge" R. says:

The zoo is great. Hard to take in in one day. The only stink is the vast line of cars for the parking.
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7/30/2010 Mozart A. says:

Is it only me that finds that a polar bear should not be here on the middle of the summer? They were talking about it on CTV News and the reporter asked "what do you do so the polar bears can endure the summer?" and they said "oh, we give him popsicles and stuff"... what, they stay inside of the popsicle or something?

I have never seen a polar bear before going there - Renata, come on, they have bears on Brazilian zoos. you've never seen ANY bear?
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7/30/2010 Renata "100 reviews" R. says:

I have probably never seen ANY bear. The last time I went to a Zoo I was about, I don't know, 5? I was young enough to have almost no memories. I kind of remember the bird habitat, and nothing else.

I was discussing about the Zoos. There's a downside and an up. The down is keeping the animals in a cage, out of their habitats, yadda yadda.

The good things is, well, research. People who pay to go to zoos are actually giving money to veterinarians, zoologists, biologists, etc, to know more about animals, specially endangered species, and how to keep them safe from human interference .

And, think about it. If you close ALL the zoos that exist right now and return all the animals that are kept in captivity to THE WILD - specially the endangered ones - how many of them are going to survive?

It's not as easy as it looks.  

There's only one obvious solution for environmental problems: voluntary human extinction ;)
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7/30/2010 Mozart A. says:

Yeah, when I go to zoos I try to leave it on neutral... not to overthink things.
But when I saw the polar bear (three months ago, I guess) he spent 20 minutes walking on the ledge of his "space", back and forth - and I'm not kidding, we stayed there for 20 minutes to see when he would stop doing that... it looked so unnatural. Maybe that's because I don't know what's natural for a polar bear. hahahaha
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7/30/2010 Karl "The 10,000 Screaming Brides of Peter Mansbridge" R. says:

At the Toronto zoo the kangaroo area they were putting out all these big burlap sacks. We asked one of the park workers why their enclosure had all these sacks randomly strewn about. She said it was there to present the kangroos with something new in their environment. I guess they need something visually novel from time to time to stay happy.

This all reminded me of Monty Python's Confuse a Cat:

http://www.youtube.com...
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7/30/2010 John "The Bear" F. says:

I've only been there once - it is a great zoo but too expensive.  The best zoo value is the one in St. Louis, which is even better than Toronto's and is a really good value - free!

Museums, Zoos and Cultural Events (and I mean real ones, not street entertainment) in this town and in my former hometown of Chicago have generally priced themselves up over the years much faster than the Consumer Price Index as a whole so now they've become, if not elitist, at least inaccessible to poor and lower income folks.  I guess it's all do to lower government funding.
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7/31/2010 Renata "100 reviews" R. says:

I find the Zoo pricing ok. It's probably very expensive to keep all those animals, employees, etc. And you're probably right about lower government funding.

What I'm still saving money waaay in advance to visit is the Four Seasons Centre. That thing you can call elitist. The grand ring prices are out of this world and I'd like to see Aida, The Magic Flute, Don Quixote and OBVIOUSLY The Nutcracker. Someone willing to fund a poor little girl?

In the meantime, I go to the Zoo.
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7/31/2010 from Yelp for iPhone Paul "Shop first....eat later" S. says:

@Renata R. Yes, there's a reason they have Mercedes Benz cars in the windows.  It's a club that most of us could not afford.  We're going to go see Cirque du Soleil at the Canon next month & the BEST price I could get was 200 bucks for 2 seats.  I'd love to support the arts more, but just can't afford it.
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7/31/2010 Min Min "increasingly narcissistic" T. says:

Bring running shoes. It's a BIG place!

Also, bring your own lunch; food there is overpriced and gross. My first job was cashiering at a fast food stand by the African Pavillions.
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7/31/2010 she "loves nectarines" s. says:

I love going to the zoo the trick is to go when a swarm of school kids are not there

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