Ghost Town
A haunting portrait of Detroit’s abandoned zoo. “Even stranger were the plants growing inside each enclosure, non-native species probably chosen carefully long ago to resemble the flora of wherever the animal was from but not to tempt them into nibbling. Even a simulacrum of wildness, abandoned, will become truly wild given enough time.”
Posted by Tim on February 18th, 2009 • • 1 comment
[...] What happens to zoos when their budgets are cut? GORILLAS ARE NOT GETTING THEIR BLUEBERRIES. As John Calvelli points out, they’re “living museums,” so it’s much harder (if not pointless) to cut admission times. The Bronx Zoo is usually open like 364 days of the year (when it’s snowing being the best time to go). Some zoos, on the other hand, just disappear altogether. [...]