Slottsskogen Zoo
Free-entry city-park zoo of Nordic animals, with a pond of harbour seals and penguins.
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This guide to Slottsskogen Zoo in Gothenburg stays by the seal and penguin pond on a sunny July day, when a newspaper reporter wandered through Sweden's oldest zoo at feeding time. It follows a keeper at the water's edge, a harbour seal named Ellen, and a lineage of seals that goes back to the early nineteen hundreds. You'll also hear what the children who came to watch had on their own minds. Best heard standing by the fence at the pond.
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