--- title: Famous zoos in the USA and the UK — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Famous zoos in the USA and the UK», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: London Zoo built the first public aquarium and an early reptile house, and a black bear there called Winnipeg gave her name to a boy's t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Famous zoos in the USA and the UK # Famous zoos in the USA and the UK Lesson 116 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 13 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/1/) — London Zoo built the first public aquarium and an early reptile house, and a black bear there called Winnipeg gave her name to a boy's teddy and so to Winnie-the-Pooh. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/3/) — Britain has Chester Zoo, its most visited, Edinburgh Zoo with its penguins, the huge Whipsnade, and safari parks where you drive past lions with the windows shut; every one of them needs a licence by law. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/4/) — San Diego Zoo in California started in 1916 with animals left over from an exhibition; it runs big conservation research, including the Frozen Zoo and condor breeding, and has a safari park nearby. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/5/) — The Bronx Zoo in New York opened in 1899 and is run by the Wildlife Conservation Society, which also funds and runs conservation work in many countries; in 1907 it sent bison to the Great Plains to help save the American bison. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/6/) — The Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington is free and is famous for giant pandas sent by China since 1972; its pandas went back to China in 2023 and new pandas arrived in 2024. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/7/) — London Zoo opened in 1828 as a zoo for science, set up by the Zoological Society of London, which still does research and conservation worldwide. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/8/) — A black bear at London Zoo called Winnipeg inspired the name of Winnie-the-Pooh. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/10/) — Chester Zoo is the most visited zoo in the UK; it was founded by George Mottershead, whose story was told in the TV series «Our Zoo», and it leads many breeding programmes. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/11/) — Edinburgh Zoo is famous for its penguins and had giant pandas; Whipsnade, near London, covers about 240 hectares and is one of the largest zoos in Europe. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/12/) — In safari parks animals roam large areas while people drive through with the windows closed, and at some British safari parks monkeys climb on cars and pull off rubber parts. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/13/) — The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta is one of the largest aquariums in the world; its main tank holds millions of litres and keeps whale sharks and manta rays, though critics say even it is too small for whale sharks, which swim across whole oceans. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/14/) — The USA has over 200 accredited zoos and aquariums with well over a hundred million visits a year, and they share breeding plans and fund conservation together. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/15/) — In the UK every zoo needs a licence and regular inspections under the Zoo Licensing Act of 1981, and some zoos have been closed after failing them. - ← previous: [Why zoos exist and what critics say](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say/) - next →: [Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)