Los Angeles Zoo
Los Angeles Zoo
NO AUDIO America's newest city zoo opens in Los Angeles. It covers 110 acres and costs ten million dollars. Some 575 species of animals and birds are included in its population of three thousand. In the children's zoo, youngsters pet and feed the animals. Aerial shot of people entering the newly constructed zoo. Camera panning people walking through newly constructed paths lined with trees and steps. CU Children looking at a tropical bird Children looking at vulture type birds and the birds are looking back at the children. Young children petting a bird in a pen. Parents and their children leaning over a short wall looking and patting at a good size land tortoise. CU A smiling little boy giving a goat a cookie. Goats gather around little children begging for kernels of corn. Aerial shot Building with twin peaks housing some exhibits. CU A little boy being held by his mom to get a drink from a fiberglass lion water fountain. People standing around a bear exhibit. Brown Bears begging for food as people throw nuts to them. Monkeys hanging on the wire dividers looking at the people. CU A young leopard looking at the cameraman. He lays down on a rock and rolls on his side. You can see his tummy as he keeps rolling over. Families walking around the zoo. CU A baby girl being wheeled in a stroller, sucking on a bottle is fast asleep. Families walking with their young children. A daddy with his daughter's head on his shoulder. A mother holding her daughter's hand as she walks or wobbles along.