Good: It was a depressing experience. I wanted to get a refund about 15 minutes after being there but my ticket said Non-Refundable (imagine that). At least half of the exhibits were empty, weeds and construction EVERYWHERE. In fact, there was more overgrowth of weeds than animals! And the animals that are there look pathetic. There is either some embezzlement going on or someone in charge does NOT know what they are doing!. Bad: I didn't like the pathetic way the animals look. I didn't like the weeds and filth. I didn't like the confusion of the layout. I didn't like the smells. I didn't like the way most of the plants look dry and in need of water. For a zoo, I would rate this one between 1 and 3 out of 10 stars. Pathetic. Dirty, Smelly.. Improvements: I would clean the place up. You don't have to have a budget to be clean. I would like to see the animals cleaner, healthier and having cleaner habitats, I would like to smell more fragrant flowers growing around as apposed to the overwhelming poop smell the zoo currently has.. Other: I realize what the problem is - the CITY owns the zoo and everyone working there is a city employee: this is problem #1. Now we know why our zoo sucks so, so bad! Anything owned and RUN by a bureaucracy remains a shameful mess. Maybe one of the studios will buy the zoo.......and make it a real zoo. I'll go to the San Diego zoo next time and the time after that..
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