Zoo
Woodland Park Zoo
Naturalistic wildlife park where landscape-immersion habitats replaced bars and cages across ninety-two acres.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle centers on Bobo, a gorilla more famous in the city than the still-unbuilt Space Needle. Orphaned in French Equatorial Africa and raised for two years in an Anacortes fisherman's house, dressed and fed at the family table, Bobo grew too big for that life by 1953 and came to live here instead. Every July the zoo threw him a birthday party, wheeling out a cake taller than a toddler while crowds cheered him tearing it apart with his bare hands.
This audio guide was created using AI.