TX-MI Houston and Detroit Zoos

The Detroit Zoo was one of the first in the United States to be cageless designed after the Tierpark Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg Germany. There are few cages in the Detroit Zoo animal exhibits. Anything that may resemble a cage is usually glass enclosed. Even most of the birds fly free in the Matilda Free Flight Avery and penguins swim free in the Penguinarium.

The great exhibits in the Detroit Zoo include the Great Apes of Harambee, Amphibiville, the Holden Museum of Living Reptiles and the River Otter Exhibit. The crown jewel is The Arctic Ring of Life with free swimming polar bears and seals above your head as you walk through an underwater tunnel.



We visited the Houston Zoo last week but noticed they have many cages. We still have a lot to learn about the Houston Zoo and we became members. Important to any zoo visit for the boys is food. Below is feeding time at the zoo for Steven and Anthony eating their core food source: pizza.

[Photo credit of The Arctic Ring of Life to http://blog.mlive.com]