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Miami Event Guide:
Miami MetroZoo
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Contact Information:
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12400 SW 152nd Street 
Miami, FL
305-251-0400
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Description:
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Surviving hurricanes Betsy and Andrew, today's Miami Metrozoo can be traced back to Key Biscayne's Crandon Park Zoo, created in 1948 when three monkeys, two black bears and a goat that were picked up for $270 from a road show stranded near Miami. The collection grew to 1,200 animals, resulting in the Crandon Park Zoo, which in 1967 succeeded in the rare captive birth and rearing of an aardvark. In 1989, MetroZoo debuted both the first koala born on the east coast and PAWS, the children's petting zoo. In 1990, the Asian River Life Experience opened with small-clawed Asian otters, a blood python, Malayan water monitor, clouded leopards, land tortoises, muntjac deer, demoiselle cranes, and fly-river turtles. Exhibits now include the Andean Condor, Meerkats, Cuban Crocodiles, Squirrel Monkeys and "Dr. Wilde's World," housing traveling zoological exhibits. American Bankers Family Aviary, Wings of Asia opened in May, 2003.
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