Zoo
Johor Zoo
State-run zoo founded as a sultan's private animal garden, with elephants, lions and bird domes.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Johor Zoo in Johor Bahru, Malaysia's oldest zoo, follows the money that goes into its animals' mouths. It starts on the day the gates reopened in August twenty twenty-four, with a state official asking the public for help, and reaches back to the sultan who opened it as a private animal garden in nineteen twenty-eight. Along the way come two-ringgit tickets and chimpanzees waiting on visitors' snacks. Best heard on the path toward the elephant enclosures.
This audio guide was created using AI.