The aims for the modern zoo are education, research, recreation and conservation.
These modern zoos also want to give the animals a natural life, so that they are healthy and behave normal.
The staff does a tremendous job, but a modern zoo needs programs that reach out to the community and that takes volunteers.
Enclosures in modern zoos are often designed to facilitate environmental enrichment.
Hanover has a very modern zoo and an international airport.
The site of the modern zoo was home in 1895 to the Northeast German industrial and craft exhibition.
The modern zoo has moved away from the traditional housing of species separately in pairs.
He created the modern zoo with animal enclosures without bars that were closer to their natural habitat.
A new technique, called protected contact or non-dominance is used in modern zoos.
Asian elephants were always more common than their African counterparts in modern zoos and circuses.