# San Diego Zoo

- **Coordinates:** 32.736111, -117.151389
- **Area:** 99 acre
- **Members:** AZA, AAM, WAZA
- **Exhibits:** Absolutely Apes, Wildlife Explorers Basecamp, Elephant Odyssey, Panda Ridge, Lost Forest, Monkey Trails, Polar Bear Plunge, Africa Rocks
- **Location:** Balboa Park, San Diego, California, U.S.
- **Zoo Name:** San Diego Zoo
- **Logo Width:** 250px|logo_caption=
- **Image Width:** 250px|image_caption=Entrance to the zoo with sculpture Rex's Roar, after the lion that inspired the zoo|date_opened=1916 (Precursor Panama–California Exposition in previous year)
- **Num Animals:** 3700
- **Num Species:** 650
- **Accreditation:** AZA, AAM, WAZA
- **Publictransit:** San Diego Metropolitan Transit System Bus Route 7; Rapid Bus 215
- **Annual Visitors:** 4000000

As a result, they have reintroduced more than 30 endangered species back into the wild, and have conserved habitat at 50 field sites. They also have over 200 conservation scientists working in 35 countries around the world. It employs numerous professional geneticists, cytologists, and veterinarians and maintains a cryopreservation facility for rare sperm and eggs called the frozen zoo.

![Photo of San Diego Zoo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/San_Diego_Zoo_Entrance_.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_Zoo (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)