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  1. zooboy28

    zooboy28 Well-Known Member

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    Ok, so more good guesses but no correct zoo yet, although with the dwindling options you guys are getting closer. I did stumble upon a photo in the gallery that gave me the idea for this clue, but again, that is also not searchable.
     
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  2. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    "dwindling options"? You know there are probably dozens of zoos in China with giant pandas right? :p

    Anyway, my next guess is Taipei Zoo.
     
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  3. Giant Panda

    Giant Panda Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Edit: cross-posted with Chlidonias, so I'll go for Ueno instead.
     
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  4. zooboy28

    zooboy28 Well-Known Member

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    Not Ueno or Taipei, and its not in China, so there are less than ten options now :D
     
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  5. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    Zoo Atlanta, because "Atlanta Panta"
     
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  6. zooboy28

    zooboy28 Well-Known Member

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    Yes! At least, yes it is Zoo Atlanta! But its not because of Atlanta Panta... As evidenced by the zoo's map:
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    So kudos to @Brum for getting the rhyming name!
     
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    pachyderm pro Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Is it bad that while I was reading this I immediately thought of terrible Jake Paul song that came out a few months ago?
     
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  8. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    "Mexico is my city..."

    I only know of that song through Music Video Sins.
     
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  9. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    My next guesses were going to be Chiang Mai Zoo and then Zoo Negara (I know you've been to the latter, but they didn't have the pandas then I think).

    Panda Veranda is so lame. They totally should have hired me as their marketing person and used Atlanta Panta. Followed by "We'll amaze ya with Asia".

    I'm magnanomusly... magnanimusly ... magnamisly .. generously giving my turn to @Brum because my Zoo Atlanta was a blind guess and he actually had to think of his rhyming answer. And thinking is always difficult.
     
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  10. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    the very first hit on Google for me is a gift shop specialising in Zoo Atlanta merchandise!!
     
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  11. zooboy28

    zooboy28 Well-Known Member

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    But I don't think its at the Zoo - it looks like its at the airport! The gift shop at Panda Veranda is imaginatively called Pandamonium.
     
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  12. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    yes, at the airport. But if I'd googled Panda Veranda after Brum had said it, I would have known your answer was Zoo Atlanta because that shop is for selling their merchandise. So Brum actually did get the answer, he just didn't know it because he was using some weird Birmingham version of Google. Or maybe he was using Bing because Birmingham.

    Pandamonium is okay as a name for their on-site giftshop. When I was a small child I had a toy panda named Pandamonium, so presumably the zoo outsourced their marketing to a pre-schooler. Which would also explain Panda Veranda. I would have called the zoo giftshop Made In China, which connects both to pandas and to the kind of merchandise that zoo giftshops generally sell.

    Off-topic, my other panda toy was named Chi Chi.
     
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  13. Brum

    Brum Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Here goes, hope it's a good one though;

    This collection was home to the world's first public aquarium, opened in the 19th century.
     
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  14. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    London Zoo
     
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    aardvark250 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    London zoo?

    EDIT:Cross post with Chlidonias.
     
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  16. Brum

    Brum Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    It's not London, too obvious.
     
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    The world's first public aquarium was the "Fish House" at London Zoo which opened in 1853.
     
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  18. Brum

    Brum Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    I didn't think it was, the one I'm thinking of isn't part of a zoo per se.
     
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  19. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    is it Brighton then?
     
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  20. Brum

    Brum Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Okay, I cocked up so I will let Chlidonias take the baton and run with it...

    My confusion arose from failing to realise the Liverpool World Museum was actually the longest running continuous aquarium. (Even though it's in a different part of the building it's still at the same address.)

    My bad guys.
     
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