Kansas City Zoo is a 202acre (82 ha) zoo founded in 1909. It is located in Swope Park at 6800 Zoo Drive Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States. The zoo has a Friends of the Zoo program. It is home to more than 1,300 animals and is an accredited member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).

Exhibits
The zoo, which was founded in 1909, is 202 acres (82 ha) and is home to more than 1,300 animals. It is located in Swope Park, the 29th largest municipal park in the United States. The zoo is divided into five areas of the following themes: Africa, Australia, Tiger Trail, KidZone and The Valley.

Front entry plaza
The admission gates and facilities (such as restrooms, gift shop, and food) are located in the entrance to the Kansas City Zoo. In 2010, polar bears were reintroduced to the zoo near the existing North American river otter and trumpeter swan pool just inside the World Gate. The entry plaza also features an educational center and stops for both the zebra tram and train.

Polar Bear Passage
This exhibit opened on August 8, 2010, with the introduction of a polar bear named Nikita, who was given to the Kansas City Zoo by the Toledo Zoo. The $10 million exhibit features a 140,000 US gallons (530,000 l) pool serviced by a massive waterfall, multiple indoor and outdoor viewing angles with 2.25inchthick (57 mm) glass windows, and space for up to two additional polar bears.

Africa
The Africa section is broken up into Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, the Congolese Rainforest and Uganda. Several snack bars are located throughout Africa, as well as the Rafiki Restaurant and Equator gift shop in the Nanyuki Market (Kenya). Nanyuki Market also has a small aviary for masked lovebirds and a whitecheeked turaco. A zebra tram station and boat house are located in the Nanyuki Market. Tanzania features a pier for the boat ride on the other side of Africa.

Botswana
Botswana contains seven African bush elephants (six female, one male) in an exhibit of 4.5 acres (1.8 ha) stretching 0.25 miles (0.40 km) with a water pool at one end. The elephants do paintings and demos during weekends. The elephant walk features a flamingo pool, home to Chilean flamingos and blacknecked swans. The Promenade leads guests into Botswana and a large bridge then connects Botswana to the rest of Africa.

Kenya
Kenya has cheetahs (with an observation building), warthog, and a deck with a view of some springbok, lesser kudu, common eland, scimitarhorned oryx and gray crowned cranes that roam across an African plain. Saddlebilled storks and Southern ground hornbills make up the wetlandthemed exhibits on the opposite side of the walkway. At the boma area, replica huts simulate a Kenyan village which has lappetfaced vultures housed with whitenecked ravens, Aldabra tortoises, bateleur eagles, redflanked duikers and blue duikers are worked into small exhibits.

Tanzania
Tanzania features an African lion exhibit with 9 lions visible from a climate controlled observation building as well as a covered deck. Small exhibits that appear carved or surrounded by rock simulate a natural kopje; these include serval, bushbaby, caracal, blackfooted cat, rock hyrax, masked and Fischer's lovebird, bateared fox, and blackthroated monitor. A logthemed bridge crosses to the black rhinoceros exhibit and a topnotch 3 acres (1.2 ha) enclosure housing chimpanzees.

Australia
Australia lies in the northernmost part of the zoo; there you can find a large field that is home to freeroaming red kangaroos. It features a walkthrough Woodland Aviary. Beside the exit to the aviary is an emu exhibit. Also featured are parma wallaby, Bennett's wallaby, dingo and Matschie's tree kangaroo.

Tiger Trail
The Tiger Trail has been home to many types of animals over the years; and recently, the area was renovated to center around the return of tigers to the Kansas City Zoo and its native Asia. The entire trek is filled with oriental plants, lanterns, statues and various pictures of Asian animals.

Orangutan Canopy
After moving from the outdated Great Ape House in 2002, the Bornean orangutan were relocated to a new exhibit in Tiger Trail that featured a large outdoor "primadome." Originally intended only as a temporary home, work eventually began on August 17, 2014, on a $6 million new orangutan exhibit called Orangutan Canopy.

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