żyrafy-i-kopytne: Toronto Zoo

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The Toronto Zoo is a zoo located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Encompassing 287 hectares (710 acres), the Toronto Zoo is the largest zoo in Canada averaging around 1.2 million visitors a year. The zoo is divided into seven zoogeographic regions: Indo-Malaya, Africa, Americas, Tundra Trek, Australasia, Eurasia, and the Canadian Domain. Some animals are displayed indoors in pavilions and outdoors in what would be their naturalistic environments, with viewing at many levels. The zoo also has interactive areas such as the Kids Zoo and Splash Island. The zoo has one of the most taxonomically diverse collection of animals on display of any zoo worldwide and is currently home to over 3,000 animals…

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High Park is a municipal park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. High Park is a mixed recreational and natural park, with sporting facilities, cultural facilities, educational facilities, gardens, playgrounds and a zoo. One-third of the park remains in a natural state, with a rare oak savannah ecology. High Park was opened to the public in 1876 and is based on a bequest of land from John George Howard to the City of Toronto. It spans 161 hectares (400 acres) and is one of the largest parks in Toronto. High Park is located to the west of downtown Toronto, north of Humber Bay, and is maintained by the City of Toronto Parks Department. It stretches south from Bloor Street West to The Queensway, just…

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Modeling long‐term population viability to inform recovery of a functionally extinct urban Blanding's turtle population. After being assessed as functionally extinct, Toronto Zoo and Parks Canada have been working since 2012 to recover the Rouge National Urban Park (RNUP) population of Blanding's turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) through ex situ incubation of eggs and headstarting. To evaluate progression toward recovery goals and identify which demographic factors most strongly affect long‐term population persistence, we performed a population viability analysis using the program VORTEX. Analyses used demographic data from 2014 to 2022 to evaluate population trajectory over the next 150 years…

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Scarborough (; 2021 Census 623,610) is a district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated in the eastern part of Toronto. Its borders are Victoria Park Avenue to the west, Steeles Avenue and the city of Markham to the north, Rouge River and the city of Pickering to the east, and Lake Ontario to the south. Scarborough was named after the English town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire, inspired by its cliffs. Scarborough is the site of several former Indigenous settlements dating back many centuries. It was settled by Europeans in the 1790s and has grown from a collection of small rural villages and farms to become a fully urbanized and diverse cultural community. Incorporated in 1850 as a townsh…