Zoo Miami

This guide to Zoo Miami traces the zoo's history through Hurricane Andrew, the category five storm that struck in August 1992, and the unusual measure longtime spokesman Ron Magill and his crew took to protect a flock of flamingos as it closed in. It also reaches back to the zoo's own start in 1948, when a stranded traveling show traded animals for truck repairs on Key Biscayne. Listen near the front lake, where that flock once had the run of the grounds.