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The Lehigh Valley Zoo is a zoo located in
In 1906, Harry Clay Trexler started purchasing farms in the Lowhill and North Whitehall townships of Pennsylvania to create a preserve to help protect bison, elk, and white-tailed deer. In all, he purchased 36 farms totaling before he died, and then bequeathed the land to Lehigh County. In 1935, the area officially became the Trexler-Lehigh County Game Preserve.
Construction on the children's zoo within the park began in 1974. When it opened, the zoo included petting and feeding exhibits as well as exotic animals from Africa, Asia, and Australia.
In 2004, since the original purpose of saving native species had been accomplished, the county opened the entire preserve to the public. At the same time, the Lehigh Valley Zoological Society took over management of the zoo within the park.
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File:Grant's Zebra at Lehigh Valley Zoo.JPG, Grant's zebra
File:Dromedary camel at Lehigh Valley Zoo.JPG, Dromedary camel
File:Laughing Kookaburra at Lehigh Valley Zoo.JPG, Laughing kookaburra
File:Dwarf crocodile in Lehigh Valley Zoo.JPG,
Schnecksville, Pennsylvania
Schnecksville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in North Whitehall Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The population of Schnecksville was 2,935 at the 2010 census.
Schnecksville is a suburb of Allentown in ...
in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. It is located inside the Trexler Nature Preserve
The Trexler Nature Preserve is an 1,108 acre county park owned and maintained by Lehigh County in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania.County of Lehigh, Dept. of General Services, "Trexler-Lehigh Game Preserve Master Plan" (Allentown, PA, ...
. The zoo is open year round.
Lehigh Valley Zoo has been accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) since March 2006.
History
In 1906, Harry Clay Trexler started purchasing farms in the Lowhill and North Whitehall townships of Pennsylvania to create a preserve to help protect bison, elk, and white-tailed deer. In all, he purchased 36 farms totaling before he died, and then bequeathed the land to Lehigh County. In 1935, the area officially became the Trexler-Lehigh County Game Preserve.
Construction on the children's zoo within the park began in 1974. When it opened, the zoo included petting and feeding exhibits as well as exotic animals from Africa, Asia, and Australia.
In 2004, since the original purpose of saving native species had been accomplished, the county opened the entire preserve to the public. At the same time, the Lehigh Valley Zoological Society took over management of the zoo within the park.
Conservation
In 2009, the zoo was participating in three Species Survival Plans (SSP):African penguin
The African penguin (''Spheniscus demersus''), also known as Cape penguin or South African penguin, is a species of penguin confined to southern African waters. Like all extant penguins, it is flightless, with a streamlined body and wings stiff ...
, mongoose lemur, and scimitar-horned oryx.
Gallery
Dwarf crocodile
The dwarf crocodile (''Osteolaemus tetraspis''), also known as the African dwarf crocodile, broad-snouted crocodile (a name more often used for the Asian mugger crocodile) or bony crocodile, is an African crocodile that is also the smallest extan ...
File:Mexican Gray Wolves in Lehigh Valley Zoo.JPG, Mexican wolf
File:American bison at Lehigh Valley Zoo 01.JPG, American bison
File:Ostrich at Lehigh Valley Zoo 01.JPG, Ostrich
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