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Humanity's way of apologizing to animals by charging admission to stare at them.
means A park where wild animals are kept in enclosures for public viewing, conservation, and study.
from Short for 'zoological garden' — 'zoological' tracing back to Greek 'zoion' (animal) plus 'logia' (study). The clipped form 'zoo' caught on in the 1800s, first as casual slang, especially popularized by London's Zoological Gardens, before it wandered off and became the only name anyone actually uses.
- origin
- short for zoological garden, coined 1847 london
- oldest zoo
- vienna's schonbrunn, running since 1752
- conservation flip
- many now breed species extinct in the wild
- etymology joke
- word itself is basically an abbreviation of an abbreviation