![]() ![]() You also can touch docile cownose and Southern stingrays in the 18,000-gallon saltwater pool at Stingray Bay. ![]() Jungle Jack's Landing is home to 13 amusement park rides, including a 1,250-foot log flume with two drops, a roller coaster and a whirligig. Rides include a 1914 carousel, train and pony rides and a boat ride through the Islands of Southeast Asia there also are two playgrounds and a marine-themed play space. Manatees occupy a 250,000-gallon home in the Shores region, which also houses alligators, Humboldt penguins, the Discovery Reef aquarium, a touch pool and a reptile house. It offers a couple of roller coasters as well spinning rides and rides geared to young children. It is meant more as an accompaniment to a day at the zoo or the adjacent water park, Zoombezi Bay, than a standalone park. North America also is home to brown bears, black bears, bison, eagles, Arctic foxes, Mexican wolves, moose, otters, trumpeter swans, cougars and wolverines as well as a songbird aviary. Take a look at the oldest operating roller coaster in the state of Ohio, as well as Delaware county's only roller coaster, the Sea Dragon This wooden roller. Columbus Zoo The small amusement area at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium used to be known as Wyandot Lake. In the section devoted to North American creatures, polar bears swim and play in a 167,000-gallon pool or recline on rocks above water, soaking in the sun at Polar Frontier. A bird sanctuary, koalas, komodo dragons, nocturnal animals, orangutans and otters complete this group. World's Largest Coaster Club Honors Oldest Operating Coaster in Ohio at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium Powell, OH (July 16, 2022) The American Coaster Enthusiasts (ACE) unveiled an ACE Roller Coaster Landmark plaque for the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium’s Sea Dragon, the oldest operating roller coaster in Ohio. ![]() Only a roped path separates onlookers from the kangaroos, who hop around on a grassy lawn and recline under trees. In the Australia and the Islands region, check out the Kangaroo Walk-about, where you can get surprisingly close to these Aussies. On Saturday July 16th, the American Coaster Enthusiasts (ACE) unveiled an ACE Roller Coaster Landmark plaque for the oldest operating roller coaster in Ohio (find out the oldest roller coaster in your state ). In Asia Quest, exotic animals-Asian elephants, giant fruit bats, red pandas, pheasants and Amur tigers-roam their habitats. The Sea Dragon at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium was recently recognized as the 47th ACE Roller Coaster Landmark. The new 43-acre Heart of Africa exhibit offers a variety of animals, including cheetahs, lions, gazelles and wildebeests visitors also have the opportunity to ride a camel and feed giraffes. Enjoy a walking safari through the forests of Africa and see bonobos (pygmy chimpanzees), colobus monkeys, gorillas (including Colo, the first gorilla born in human care), a leopard, mandrills, okapi and red river hogs. More than 10,000 animals representing more than 600 species call the zoo home. Stroll on paths, many though wooded areas, to travel among the zoo's regions: Congo Expedition, Heart of Africa, Asia Quest, Australia and the Islands, North America and Shores, and Jungle Jack's Landing. The zoo, which opened in 1927, has six regions totaling nearly 140 acres of gardens and natural habitats. Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is off I-270 Sawmill Rd. ![]()
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