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Zoos & Aquariums Attractions In Southwest Gulf Coast

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Southwest Florida is the region along the southwest Gulf coast of the U.S. State of Florida. The area is known for its sugar white sand beaches, lush tropical landscape, and winter resort economy.Definitions of the region vary, though its boundaries are generally considered to put it south of the Tampa Bay area, west of Lake Okeechobee, and mostly north of the Everglades and to include Manatee, Sarasota, Charlotte, Lee, and Collier counties. For some purposes, the inland counties of DeSoto, Glades, and Hendry, and the thinly populated mainland section of Monroe County, south of Collier, are also included.The region includes four metropolitan areas: the...
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Zoos & Aquariums Attractions In Southwest Gulf Coast

  • 2. Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium Sarasota
    Mote Marine Laboratory is an independent, not-for-profit, marine research organization based on City Island in Sarasota, Florida, with additional campuses in eastern Sarasota County, Boca Grande, Florida, and the Florida Keys. Founded in 1955 by Dr. Eugenie Clark in Placida, Florida, it was known as the Cape Haze Marine Laboratory until 1967. The Lab aims to advance marine science and education, supporting conservation and sustainable use of marine resources. The public Mote Aquarium and associated education program translate Mote research for the public.
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  • 3. Naples Zoo at Caribbean Gardens Naples
    The Naples Zoo was opened in September 1969 in Naples, Florida, in what was once the gardens for botanist Dr. Henry Nehrling's collection of plants. The gardens were neglected after Nehrling's death, but reopened in 1954 by Julius Fleischmann. Animals were added by Larry and Jane Tetzlaff in 1969, and the gardens were reopened as a zoo attraction.The zoo has about 70 species, though not all of these are on display at any given time. The main path is about a mile long, and winds past the main animal exhibits through a tropical garden first planted in 1919. Primates in the zoo are housed on islands in a man made lake, and can be viewed from catamarans when visitors take the Primate Expedition Cruise.The zoo is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums , and is an institutional memb...
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  • 5. Sarasota Jungle Gardens Sarasota
    Sarasota Jungle Gardens has been a tourist attraction in Sarasota, Florida in the United States since 1939. It offers ten acres, or four hectares, of botanical plantings along with bird and animal shows. One key attraction at the park is the opportunity to hand feed free-roaming flamingos. It is open to the public for a per-use ticket fee, as well as offering yearly membership passes for those wishing to visit frequently. The Gardens includes native species and exotic plants from around the world, such as the Australian nut tree, a bunya-bunya tree, the largest Norfolk Island pine in Florida, bulrush, strangler figs, royal palms, selloums, banana trees, Peruvian apple cactus, and staghorn ferns, as well as native red maples, oaks and bald cypress. In the 1920s, the site had become a swampy...
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  • 6. The Cat Depot Sarasota
    This partial list of city nicknames in the United States compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities are known by , officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce. City nicknames can help establish a civic identity, help outsiders recognize a community, attract people to a community because of its nickname, promote civic pride, and build community unity. Nicknames and slogans that successfully create a new community ideology or myth are also believed to have economic value. This value is difficult to measure, but there are anecdotal reports of cities that have achieved substantial economic benefits by branding themselves by adopting new slogans.In 2005 the consultancy Tagline Guru conducted a small...
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