Riverbanks Zoo and Garden Columbia, South Carolina | Baby gorilla's, Grizzly bear, Elephants...
The Riverbanks Zoo and Garden is a 170-acre zoo, aquarium, and botanical garden located along the Saluda River in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. A small portion of the zoo extends into the nearby city of West Columbia.
On today's visit we get to see so many animals including the baby gorilla's, grizzly bear, ring tailed lemurs and so many more. We also visit the Botanical Garden and the Water fall Junction.
The zoo is home to over 2,000 animals, with collections of mammals, birds, reptiles, and fish. In 2002, additions included exhibits for African elephants, gorillas, and koalas.
Sea Lion Landing at Riverbanks Zoo and Garden
Home to five California sea lions and a harbor seal, Sea Lion Landing at Riverbanks Zoo and Garden is a spectacular replica of San Francisco's Pier 39.
Zooma the Sea Lion at Riverbanks Zoo
This is Zooma, the California Sea Lion, doing a presentation at Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in Columbia, SC. This video is in honor of a little girl who is Zooma's #1 fan!
Suburban Extended Stay Hotel Columbia - Columbia Hotels, South Carolina
Suburban Extended Stay Hotel Columbia 2 Stars Hotel in Columbia, South Carolina Within US Travel Directory One of our bestsellers in Columbia! Less than 5 minutes’ drive from Riverbanks Zoo & Botanical Garden, this guest accommodation features an outdoor pool, and all suites include a full kitchen.
Free Wi-Fi and expanded cable channels with HBO are offered in each suite at Suburban Extended Stay Hotel Columbia.
The traditionally styled suites also include a separate living room with a sofa.
Columbia Suburban Extended Stay Hotel offers a small convenience store on site with snacks and drinks available for purchase.
This accommodation is within 10 minutes’ drive of the University of South Carolina and Palmetto Health Richland Campus.
Dutch Square mall is about 3.
2 km away.
Suburban Extended Stay Hotel Columbia - Columbia Hotels, South Carolina
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Embassy Suites Columbia - Greystone - Columbia Hotels, South Carolina
Embassy Suites Columbia - Greystone 3 Stars Hotel in Columbia, South Carolina Within US Travel Directory Located off Interstate 126 and a short drive from Columbia city centre as well as Columbia Metropolitan Airport, this all-suite hotel provides a free airport transfer service.
Exploring the surrounding area and attractions is easy with the Embassy Suites Columbia-Greystone's free transfer service within an 8 km radius.
The renowned Riverbanks Zoo and Gardens are also ideally located directly opposite the hotel.
The sites of the city centre, including the University of South Carolina are also easily accessible.
With free airport transfers, a free cooked-to-order breakfast and a state-of-the-art fitness centre, every stay at the Columbia-Greystone is sure to be pleasant.
Guests at the hotel can also enjoy in-room microwaves, refrigerators and coffee makers as well as the free evening reception.
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Brevard Zoo Full Tour - Melbourne, Florida
Brevard Zoo is a 75 acres (30 ha) not-for-profit facility located in Melbourne, Florida, United States that is home to more than 900 animals representing more than 195 species from Florida, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The zoo features animal feedings, kayak tours, paddle boats in the wetlands, behind-the-scenes tours, and a train ride. Brevard Zoo is a not-for-profit organization accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
The zoo is divided into four loops: Expedition Africa, Lands of Change: Australia and Beyond, Wild Florida, and La Selva. These loops are accessed off of the main loop that encircles the flamingo pond.
Park areas:
Wildlife Detective Training Academy:
The Wildlife Detective Training Academy, or WDTA, is a building focused specifically towards younger children and features terrariums containing many of the zoo's reptiles, amphibians, arthropods, and at least one mammal, a naked mole rat. It also features interactive activities, such as a sand pit, where children can dig up bones from an animal crime scene, and an animal hospital where children can learn about animal anatomy and veterinary science. The WDTA also features a new mystery every month in which children can investigate and find clues throughout the zoo. The building is located to the right of the main entrance in a separate building. After Paws On reopened in 2009, visitors now have to go through Paws On to enter the WDTA.
Expedition Africa:
Expedition Africa offers kayaking on the grounds of the zoo. Trained staff lead the kayak trips and provide informative dialogue during a slow glide past African-themed exhibits. These exhibits include: giraffes, a blue crane, white rhinos, and ostriches. After kayaking, visitors can climb up to an observation platform where the giraffes feed at eye-level. Siamang gibbons are located in-between the entrances to the Africa and Australia/Asia Loops. Cheetahs were added in February 2010.[citation needed] meerkats were added in 2014. Two Grevy's zebra mares were added to the white rhino exhibit on President's Day 2015. The zoo also has a population of scimitar oryx, a species of oryx that has been extinct in the wild since 2000. On February 3, 2017, a new oryx calf was born at the zoo.
Lands of Change: Australia and Beyond:
As its name implies, this loop features animals from Australia and Oceania. Visitors can find animals such as the red kangaroo, emu, and wallaby. Lands of Change: Australia and Beyond also hosts the free-flight aviary where visitors have the option of feeding rainbow lorikeets. The aviary is home to: galahs, lorikeets, cockatiels, kookaburras, and shelducks, among others. It is divided into three sections - the bat side with fruit bats, the main exhibit with the lorikeets, and the turaco side with several species of turacos. The turaco side of the aviary is also where the butterfly exhibit is put up during its brief stay at the zoo of about six weeks each year. Siamang gibbons are located in-between the entrances to the Africa and Lands of Change: Australia and Beyond.
Wild Florida:
River otters, alligators, crocodiles, and bobcats are just some of the animals on exhibit. This loop also contains a pack of the nearly extinct red wolf. Feeding is demonstrated in this loop. There is an area to pedal boat into a wetland environment.
La Selva:
La Selva houses the zoo's jaguars, cotton-top tamarins, and golden-headed lion tamarins. This loop is going through a complete renovation.
Paws On:
Paws On once provided a place for children to play in a playground, and a petting zoo for children to explore. The Contact Yard (petting zoo) had goats, chickens, a fallow deer, a miniature horse, and a miniature donkey. It was closed for renovations in 2007. It reopened in April 2009 and now contains an updated Contact Yard, a shallow swimming area, an aquarium mimicking the underwater environment of the nearby Indian River Lagoon with animals such as Tarpons, stingrays, and black drums; a touch tank with horseshoe crabs, hermit crabs, and Florida crown conchs; a pizzeria, and various other attractions aimed towards children of all ages. Animals from the old Paws On that were kept include the Soil Cube and the Whale Slide. The Contact Yard now contains alpacas, pygmy goats, an African spurred tortoise, and armadillos. Other animals include a barred owl and a great horned owl, Florida box turtle, and a gopher tortoise.
A Wedding & Reception at Pine Island on Lake Murray in Columbia, SC
Wedding Photos by Columbia, SC, wedding photographer Jeff Blake. Heather & Paul's Wedding & Reception at Pine Island on Lake Murray in Columbia, SC.
Holiday Inn Express & Suites - Columbia, SC
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Our Hotel: Welcome to the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites at Harbison Blvd at I-26. Our hotel is located in the Harbison area of Columbia, which is the capital of South Carolina. We are only minutes away from the University of South Carolina, historic sites, and other attractions such as the Capitol Building, Riverbanks Zoo and beautiful Lake Murray. In addition we are centrally located to many corporate and government offices. Our hotel is conveniently located to Columbia's best shopping, movie theaters, and great dining.
Our Location: The Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites is a state of the art hotel with luxurious accommodations. It was designed with you in mind, featuring facilities that meet the needs of the corporate, group or leisure traveler. Our hotel provides 82 well appointed, spacious guestrooms. Twenty-two of which are suites, making our hotel the perfect choice if your stay is extended or if your relocating to our area.
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Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Columbia-Fort Jackson - Columbia Hotels, South Carolina
Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Columbia-Fort Jackson 2 Stars Hotel in Columbia, South Carolina Within US Travel Directory One of our top picks in Columbia.
This hotel is 1.
6 km from Fort Jackson Army Base and close to Interstate 77, this Columbia, South Carolina hotel offers rooms equipped with refrigerators as well as a daily hot breakfast buffet.
Microwaves and coffee making facilities are standard in rooms at the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Columbia-Fort Jackson.
The modern rooms also have a seating area.
Guests can work out in the fitness centre or have a snack from the convenience store.
The hotel also offers a business centre.
The University of South Carolina and Columbia city centre, with shopping, dining and entertainment, are 8 km from the Holiday Inn Express.
Riverbanks Zoo is 20 minutes’ drive from the hotel.
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Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch in San Antonio Texas
Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch is a 400-acre (160 ha) safari park on the northern outskirts of San Antonio, near New Braunfels, Texas. The Natural Bridge Caverns is not affiliated but is located nearby.
The ranch features more than 500 animals representing over 40 species, but does not have any predators or elephants. Visitors can drive through the 400-acre (160 ha) private property, where animals roam freely within 3 large pastures.
Animals at the Ranch include zebra, wildebeest, gazelle, African buffalo, emu, llama, ostrich, Watusi cattle, aoudad, fallow deer, gemsbok, greater kudu, blue bull - Nilgal male, scimitar horned oryx, addax, elk.
The only living set of giraffe twins in the United States were born there in May 2013. They celebrated their 1st birthday in 2014.
Joint Legislative Budget Hearing on Environmental Conservation - 01/28/15
Joint Legislative Budget Hearing on Environmental Conservation - 01/28/15
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St. Louis () is an independent city and major U.S. port in the state of Missouri, built along the western bank of the Mississippi River, which marks Missouri's border with Illinois. The city had an estimated 2018 population of 308,626 and is the cultural and economic center of the St. Louis metropolitan area (home to nearly 3,000,000 people), which is the largest metropolitan area in Missouri, second-largest in Illinois (after Chicago), the 22nd-largest in the United States.
Prior to European settlement, the area was a major regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. The city of St. Louis was founded in 1764 by French fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, and named after Louis IX of France. In 1764, following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War, the area was ceded to Spain and retroceded back to France in 1800. In 1803, the United States acquired the territory as part of the Louisiana Purchase. During the 19th century, St. Louis developed as a major port on the Mississippi River. In the 1870 Census, St. Louis was ranked as the 4th-largest city in the United States. It separated from St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its own political boundaries. In 1904, it hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Summer Olympics.
The economy of metropolitan St. Louis relies on service, manufacturing, trade, transportation of goods, and tourism. Its metro area is home to major corporations, including Anheuser-Busch, Express Scripts, Centene, Boeing Defense, Emerson, Energizer, Panera, Enterprise, Peabody Energy, Ameren, Post Holdings, Monsanto, Edward Jones, Go Jet, Purina and Sigma-Aldrich. Nine of the ten Fortune 500 companies based in Missouri are located within the St. Louis metropolitan area. This city has also become known for its growing medical, pharmaceutical and research presence. St. Louis has two professional sports teams: the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball and the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League. The city is commonly identified with the 630-foot (192 m) tall Gateway Arch in the city's downtown.
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The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York (NY), is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2017 population of 8,622,698 distributed over a land area of about 302.6 square miles (784 km2), New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass and one of the world's most populous megacities, with an estimated 20,320,876 people in its 2017 Metropolitan Statistical Area and 23,876,155 residents in its Combined Statistical Area. A global power city, New York City has been described uniquely as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world, and exerts a significant impact upon commerce, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, art, fashion, and sports. The city's fast pace has inspired the term New York minute. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy.Situated on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a separate county of the State of New York. The five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. The city and its metropolitan area constitute the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. New York City is home to more than 3.2 million residents born outside the United States, the largest foreign-born population of any city in the world. In 2017, the New York metropolitan area produced a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of US$1.73 trillion. If greater New York City were a sovereign state, it would have the 12th highest GDP in the world.New York City traces its origins to a trading post founded by colonists from the Dutch Republic in 1624 on Lower Manhattan; the post was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York. New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the country's largest city since 1790. The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a world symbol of the United States and its ideals of liberty and peace. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a global node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance, and environmental sustainability, and as a symbol of freedom and cultural diversity.Many districts and landmarks in New York City are well known, with the city having three of the world's ten most visited tourist attractions in 2013 and receiving a record 62.8 million tourists in 2017. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world. Times Square, iconic as the world's heart and its Crossroads, is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway Theater District, one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections, and a major center of the world's entertainment industry. The names of many of the city's landmarks, skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattan's real estate market is among the most expensive in the world. New York is home to the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is the largest single-operator rapid transit system worldwide, with 472 rail stations. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, which ha ...
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St. Louis () is an independent city and major U.S. port in the state of Missouri, built along the western bank of the Mississippi River, which marks Missouri's border with Illinois. The city had an estimated 2018 population of 308,626 and is the cultural and economic center of the Greater St. Louis Metropolitan area (home to nearly 3,000,000 people), which is the largest metropolitan area in Missouri and the 19th-largest in the United States.
Prior to European settlement, the area was a major regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. The city of St. Louis was founded in 1764 by French fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, and named after Louis IX of France. In 1764, following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War, the area was ceded to Spain and retroceded back to France in 1800. In 1803, the United States acquired the territory as part of the Louisiana Purchase. During the 19th century, St. Louis developed as a major port on the Mississippi River. In the 1870 Census, St. Louis was ranked as the 4th-largest city in the United States. It separated from St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its own political boundaries. In 1904, it hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Summer Olympics.
The economy of metropolitan St. Louis relies on service, manufacturing, trade, transportation of goods, and tourism. Its metro area is home to major corporations, including Anheuser-Busch, Express Scripts, Centene, Boeing Defense, Emerson, Energizer, Panera, Enterprise, Peabody Energy, Ameren, Post Holdings, Monsanto, Edward Jones, Go Jet, Purina and Sigma-Aldrich. Nine of the ten Fortune 500 companies based in Missouri are located within the St. Louis metropolitan area. This city has also become known for its growing medical, pharmaceutical and research presence. St. Louis has two professional sports teams: the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball and the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League. The city is commonly identified with the 630-foot (192 m) tall Gateway Arch in the city's downtown.