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How many zoos/aquariums have you visited?

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How many zoos/aquariums have you visited?

Poll closed 25 Oct 2021.
  1. 1-9

    26 vote(s)
    13.1%
  2. 10-24

    57 vote(s)
    28.6%
  3. 25-49

    39 vote(s)
    19.6%
  4. 50-74

    29 vote(s)
    14.6%
  5. 75-99

    13 vote(s)
    6.5%
  6. 100 or more

    35 vote(s)
    17.6%
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  1. Arizona Docent

    Arizona Docent Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    (My first attempt at a poll, not sure how to do this, so we will see what happens).

    Any exotic animal facility counts (rescue sanctuary, marine park, aviary, etc).
     
  2. Arizona Docent

    Arizona Docent Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    It worked - how exciting! I also got to cast the first vote, for the second to last category (75-99). My current count is 77, soon to be 78 when I visit Fresno Chaffee Zoo for the first time next month.
     
  3. mazfc

    mazfc Well-Known Member

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    Mines about 18 I think. I seem to visit a small amount very often :)
     
  4. Brum

    Brum Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    I've hit about 27, virtually all in the UK. Obviously I go to some more often than others though. :)
     
  5. Maguari

    Maguari Never could get the hang of Thursdays. 15+ year member Premium Member

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    Erm, 285.


    Obsessed, at all? :p
     
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    Brum Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Now that's just depressed me... :p
     
  7. zoogiraffe

    zoogiraffe Well-Known Member

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    Just a very poor total of 297 for me!!
     
  8. sooty mangabey

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    Just behind Zoogiraffe at 293. I quite want #300 to be somewhere memorable, rather than Amazonia in Cromer or something...
     
  9. zoogiraffe

    zoogiraffe Well-Known Member

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    I have to say I'm very surpised that I'm in front of you Sooty.
     
  10. robmv

    robmv Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    430 and counting ...
     
  11. sooty mangabey

    sooty mangabey Well-Known Member

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    ...while there are one or two upsides to having children, it does rather slow down the ability to go to lots of funny little zoos. That said, my nine-year old son is up to 85 zoos, and assiduously keeps a list that is gleefully updated after each new visit. So the nerd gene is passed on, I'm glad to say.
     
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  12. Arizona Docent

    Arizona Docent Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Almost half the votes so far are for over 100 and some of you say you have been to 300 or 400 plus?!! And I thought I was obsessed - you guys have an addiction! ;)
     
  13. sooty mangabey

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    It is much easier to rack up zoo visits in Europe than in the USA - There are 127 animal collections of one sort or another within 100km of Cologne, for example, and while many of these will be fairly inconsequential, many will not.
     
  14. Toddy

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    Current number as of June 2012 is 106 and I know that I will at least get by 110 before the year is over.

    @sooty mangabey: I know what you mean! I also went out of my way to make sure that my number 100 was something memorable last year. I ended up choosing Tiergarten Schönbrunn (a choice I was quite happy with).
     
  15. Brum

    Brum Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    If I was depressed by Maguari's post then the rest of you are killing me!
     
  16. Hvedekorn

    Hvedekorn Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    My list isn't very extensive, but then again, I'm not dedicating travels to visit zoos like many in here:

    Actual zoos, bird parks, terraria and aquaria: 48

    Other places with animals (amusement parks with a few exotic animals, farms, butterfly farms, natural history museums exhibiting living animals, falconaries and the sorts): 14. If ANY place with animals counts, then probably several more, as I haven't been able to count any museum with a few terraria and aquaria or city parks with a few aviaries with birds like peafowl and pheasants.

    So all in all, that makes at least 62, but I only really consider the 48 of them as actual visits. Hitting the 50-mark this summer, by the way.
    That number was actually quite higher than I thought. On the other hand, most zoos/aquariums I've visited have been some Danish ones, and Danish zoos are generally very small - in either area or collection (there is NO Danish zoo with more than 100 species that has an area at more than 11 hectares) and usually also in significance. So I've only seen a very few of the big players in the zoo world.
     
  17. nanoboy

    nanoboy Well-Known Member

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    I am only on about 35, and most are in Australia. I regret not visiting zoos overseas when I travelled in my 20's, but alas, I was not into zoos then.
     
  18. EvilKittie

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    41 to my memory! All in the UK. :):)
     
  19. KCZooFan

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    I think I am at 17, but living in the US, having a lack of wheels, and zoo-going being a secondary interest, I am not too upset.
     
  20. zooboy28

    zooboy28 Well-Known Member

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    I'm on 76 zoos, with 27 in NZ, eight in Australia, six in Singapore and the rest in Europe. 42 of these I have seen only in the last year. Hopefully I will add another couple of NZ institutions to the list this year.
     
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