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Tone & Style read like a brochure

While nothing appears to be wrong factually with this article, it sounds like PR, so I added the advertising warning template. For example, the following sentences sound like they were lifted directly from marketing materials:

The Philadelphia Zoo is one of the premier zoos in the world for breeding animals that have been found difficult to breed in captivity.
In addition, the Channel 6 Zooballooon, which soars 400 feet in the air, offers one of the best views of the Zoo and the city skyline.
In 2006 the Philadelphia Zoo opened a new, $20-million Bank of America Big Cat Falls exhibit. The new Zoo experience creates a stunning landscape of lush habitats and waterfalls where guests can come face to face with 12 endangered big cats from around the world, including three new snow leopard cubs, three new puma kittens and a new black jaguar cub.

At the very least, the language is not particularly appropriate for an encyclopedia and should be rewritten. --ishu 02:22, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gallery Additions

Added a good number of my photos to the gallery for now to give a better idea of the actual content of the zoo. Any suggestions for more? I must have something like 200 pictures of my camera from the place, only added 6 or so. RegBarc 00:52, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Missing History Section.

I noticed that besides the date in the infobox, there is no information on the going ons of the zoo between opening and the fire in 1995. That fire should be moved to the history section when it written. Can someone familiar with the zoo write an History section. BeckyAnne (talk) 14:17, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment

This article needs to be expanded and have more citations. In addition, the sections just seem to run on forever, and Features is just a long list. "Recent events" are not necessarily recent (we should try not to use relative temporal terms, as they are easily outdated). Part of this is history, and part of it could probably be in an "Incidents" section. Deaths and births happen all the time at zoos, and are not generally notable. For instance "a giraffe was born" is not notable -- Denver Zoo has had births for the last four years at least, with two last year and this year. New animals are also not generally notable, though new major exhibits are. THey belong a "The future" section while under construction, and get moved to "Exhibits" (with possibly a mention in "History") when they are opened. I am re-rating to C-class for now. Make sure that the B-class checklist in the WPZOO banner is all covered before re-rating to B-class. Donlammers (talk) 12:37, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Expanding History

As noted above, the "History" section for this page covers only 1995 to 2010, while Philadelphia Zoo has made several substantial changes since 2010, including the opening of a new children's zoo, and has made history many times since opening in 1874.

In keeping with Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy, I cannot make these changes myself (I'm an employee), but I would be happy to provide any materials that would help facilitate these updates. To start, it may be worth exploring the timeline on our site, but I can provide additional information, newer photographs, and anything else that an editor might need.

PZWebkeeper (talk) 15:59, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Confusing statement

The opening of this article says, "For a brief time, the zoo also housed animals brought over from safari on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution, which had not yet built the National Zoo in the 1850s.[3]" But the zoo didn't open until 1874, so it sounds like the National Zoo should have already been opened. It would be great if someone could clarify this.

BTW, I came here for historic information, and was disappointed to see there is very little about the early years of the zoo. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tlqk56 (talk • contribs) 8:06 pm, November 10, 2013 (UTC)

Promotional article

So much "welcomed" and "opened", etc. Non-encyclopediac writing, it sounds more like a tourism brochure. DMacks (talk) 16:01, 13 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]