Word+Zoo

= **Where does the word zoo come from?** =

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 * The terms //zoo// and //zoological garden//, that refer to zoology (from Greek: ζῷον, //zoon//, "animal"; and λόγος, //logos//, "knowledge"), did not come into use until the modern zoo concept developed during the nineteenth century.**

3. A park or an institution in which living animals are kept and usually exhibited to the public.
==4. A place where animals are restricted within artificial environments and exhibited to the public. The first zoos were private menageries, usually belonging to monarchs. King Charles I, of England, established a //zoo// with a large python as the main attraction. The first public zoo was established in Vienna in 1752, when the Habsburg emperors decided to grant public access to the former privately-owned Sch�nbrunn Palace menagerie, now called //Tiergarten Sch�nbrunn//. After the French Revolution, the Paris Zoo was opened to the public. Since those early times, the mission of zoos has shifted from simply displaying animals for the wonderment of the public, to scientific study, and, later, to breeding them, and in particular to maintaining populations of animals that are endangered or even extinct in the wild. The first scientific zoological garden in the modern world was founded in London in 1828 by the Zoological Society of London. It was opened to the public in 1847, as a way of funding its scientific work. Londoners soon shortened "zoological gardens" to "zoo". It was the Zoological Society of London, too, which was to be the first to create an open wild animal park, with the establishment of the Whipsnade Wild Animal Park on the Chiltern Hills in 1926.== Source: [|http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf]

** What do these "zoo" words mean? **
 * zoobiotic || zooecology || zoograft || zoolith || ** zoon ** ||  ||
 * zooblast || zooetic || zoographer || zoomancy || zootheism ||  ||
 * zoocoenose || zoogeny || zoography || zoomantist || zoophily ||
 * zooculture || zoogenuous || zooidal || zoometry || zoophobia ||
 * zoodermic || zoogeographer || zoolater || zoomimic || zoopsia ||
 * zoodomatia || zoonomy || zooglea || zoolatrous || zoomorph ||  ||

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That the word "hippopotamus" is Greek for "river horse".

Can you spell all of these words?
 * SPELLING WORDS[[image:MONKEY.jpg align="right"]] **
 * elephant || giraffe || orangutan || llama || monkey ||
 * hippopotamus || leopard || elephant || chimpanzee || ostrich ||
 * zoological || gazelle || gorilla || <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">cougar || <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">tapir ||
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">meerkat || <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">cheetah || <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">rhinocerous || <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">aardvark || <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">baboon ||