0 an area in which animals, especially wild animals, are kept so that people can go and look at them or study them -- (尤指野生)动物园
"Did the kids enjoy their trip to the zoo?" "Oh, yes, they were full of it when they got back this afternoon."
The bad weather really took the gloss off our trip to the zoo.
We could hear the lions roaring at the other end of the zoo.
The simulated pedigrees differed from real zoo pedigrees since mating was random whereas, in managed zoo pedigrees, inbreeding is usually minimized.
Specific antibodies were detected in 154 (10.4 %) out of 1487 zoo animals tested.
This situation is more directly analogous to the captive monkeys in zoos, provided with adequate food but kept under serious crowding.