Christian Major

Review of The Los Angeles Zoo and Botani...

Definitely not one of the better zoos we've been t...

Definitely not one of the better zoos we've been to. Yes it's lovely looking at animals but if you take a deeper look, many of the enclosures appear empty. There are animals on their own and with nothing else close, pitiful really. The Toucan for example was in a relatively small enclosure that didn't really allow for flight, he was alone and with no other birds close by. The male Elephant looked depressed, walking backwards and forwards, rocking his head. There was a keeper there justifying his actions, but it just seemed like a cover up. The exhibits at a zoo should be enriching for the animals, I didn't get that feeling at all here and frankly, left feeling a bit depressed, I've never really felt this way at other zoos.