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Review of Memphis Zoo

Memphis Zoo was amazing, we came from a city with ...

Memphis Zoo was amazing, we came from a city with an award winning zoo, but after the first loop of ~5 animals I felt the words escape my mouth "Even if that was the entire zoo, it would be worth the money," but it wasn't! We did visit near Thanksgiving, so we believe the crowds were smaller than usual and likely the animals were more lively as the temperature was in the 60s. It did rain on us but we were already nearly finished seeing it in it's entirety, in fact the rain caused us to sit in on the sea lion training. That is the only "show" we saw and with only that knowledge I would recommend being extremely prompt to it as they did start on time and it lasted 5-10 minutes, so don't run up 15 minutes after the show time expecting to catch some of it.

Very beautiful, very worth the value. The highlights for me were the nocturnal animals and the hippos. This again may have been due to the rainy weather, but I appreciated being at eye level with the animals. The entire panda area is also amazing and likely what the zoo is best known for.