There’s nothing like a living, breathing animal to enchant a child—or even a jaded adult. Here’s the best of the wild and wonderful creatures in the Pacific Northwest, all safely conserved and behind exhibit borders.
Seattle
Born well over a century ago on the former Phinney estate (of Phinney Ridge fame), the state’s biggest zoo by animal count draws more than a million visitors in a normal year. This is a zoo so classic that Richard Scarry might as well have devised it—lions and zebras in the African savanna exhibit, gorilla and toucan in a rain forest enclosure, a total of nearly 1,000 animals. But for all its tried-and-true
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