zoopark

English

Etymology

zoo +‎ park

Noun

zoopark (plural zooparks)

  1. A zoological park.
    • 1983, Alan H. Brush, George A. Clark, Jr., Perspectives in Ornithology (page 32)
      In the future, as human populations shift, grow, and further crowd nature reserve borders, zoological gardenlike park accessories may make sense. Such zooparks could act not only to sustain critically small animal populations […]
    • 1988, Edward O. Wilson, Frances M. Peter, Biodiversity (page 286)
      I believe we will see an increasing need for these sorts of techniques in the coming decades as the biosphere undergoes the final change from unmanaged wilderness ecosystems to managed nature preserves, megazoos, and zooparks […]
    • 1992, Roy Claude Anderson, Nematode parasites of vertebrates: their development and transmission
      The disease has been noted in reindeer in a zoopark as well (Nichols et al., 1986).
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