🔒Here are 100 wacky, cool and totally true things you never knew about the Houston Zoo KPRC2 houstonzoo
, he often frequents the Houston Zoo’s commissary, where, over the years, zoo employees have observed strange phenomena, including a shadowy figure and a disembodied voice.The massive aviary was designed by Mexican-American sculptor Dionicio Rodriguez and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was critically damaged by Hurricane Carla in 1961. The structure was later converted into a flamingo habitat.
In an attempt to provide more room for its growing animal collection, the zoo expanded to 43 acres in 1947. The major changes associated with the expansion were completed in 1950 and included a 700-car parking lot.were reworked when the “Monkey Mansion” was built. The three miniature pools were converted into the single long pool that you can currently see at the zoo.
The zoo train had proven so popular, that by 1958, tracks had been laid for the “Hermann Park Special,” which toured the entire park, not just the zoo. In 1985, a male cobra took a bite of his cage mate, a female banded Egyptian cobra. The female snake suffered a severe and unusual reaction to the venom -- its head swelled to twice its normal size and it was bleeding between its scales. The female cobra was saved by an injection of human anti-snakebite serum. Zoo officials believe the male cobra mistook the female cobra for prey and tried to eat it. Officials decided to keep the cobras together in the hope that they would breed.
Another strange incident occurred just two weeks later when a man, 27, climbed on top of an artificial rock above the tiger area, beat his hands on his bare chest and growled/taunted the tigers 20 feet below. According to Houston police, the man was “incoherent, appeared intoxicated and gave no explanation for his actions.”Eleven animals died in a fire in 1990. The fire apparently began in a gas heater and swept through their cages overnight.
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