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Chapultepec Zoo In Mexico Celebrates 100 Years Of Existence
View of Xin Xin, a giant panda at the Wildlife Conservation Centre inside the Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City, who recently turned 33 years old and where 100 years of this emblematic place of the capital were celebrated. The Chapultepec Zoo was founded by the Mexican biologist and scientist Alfonso Luis Herrera. When it opened, the zoo had a collection of 243 animals. Currently it has 1,236 specimens of 222 different species of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, as well as a butterfly garden, a herpetarium and a museum dedicated to the salamander, a species endemic to Mexico. (Photo by Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto)
