The Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens is a 133-acre zoo founded in 1966 and located in Los Angeles, California. The city of Los Angeles owns the entire zoo. The Zoo is home to more than 1,100 mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles representing more than 250 different species of which 29 are endangered. In addition, the Zoo’s botanical collection comprises several planted gardens and over 800 different plant species with over 7,400 individual plants. The Zoo receives over 1.5 million visitors per year

Admission Prices:
Adults (ages 13 and older) $20
Seniors (age 62 and older) $17
Children (ages 2 to 12) $15
Children (under 2) FREE

Opening hours:
Hours: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. daily
Closed on Christmas Day

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Perth is the sunniest city. You can enjoy an average eight hours of sunshine on any given day.
Perth has the largest inner city park in the world – Kings Park. It’s even bigger than New York’s Central Park.
Perth is the only city in the world where aircraft can land in the central business district.
Perth is originally called Swan River Colony by the British settlers.
Perth was nominated by U.S astronauts as the ‘City’ of Lights’ – as it stood out as the bright spot on earth.

Perth Skyscrapers

Perth entertainment complex

Perth art gallery

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Perth cycling

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Perth state library

Swan River Perth

Perth from Kings Park

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Perth shopping

Perth trains

Perth underground

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Amazon Rainforest is large, tropical rainforest that occupying the drainage basin of the Amazon River and its tributaries in northern South America, and covering an area of 2,300,000 square miles (6,000,000 square km). The nine nations that have the Amazon rainforest in their borders are Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. Tropical forests have been present in South America for millions of years and were at one point spread over most of the continent. It only cover about 6% of the Earth’s surface, but they are home to more than half the world’s total plant and animal species. The rainforests have begun to be destroyed in the last 100 years to make way for farm land. Today, the rainforests are being destroyed by 1.5 acres every second. It is believed that there may still be as many as 50 Amazon native tribes living in the rainforest that have never been in contact with the rest of the world. There were an estimated ten million Indians living in the Amazonian forest five centuries ago. Today there are less than 200,000.

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Victoria Azarenka is a Belarusian professional tennis player. She is the current World No. 1 as of March 19, 2012.

Country: Belarus
Birth Date: 31 July 1989
Birth Place: Minsk, Belarus
Residence: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Height: 1.8 metres ( 5 ft. 11 in. )
Weight: 60 kilos ( 132 lbs. )
Plays: Right Handed
Turned Pro: 2003
Nickname: Vika

Singles Titles:
2012: Australian Open, Sydney, Doha, Indian Wells
2011: Luxembourg, Miami, Marbella
2010: Stanford, Moscow
2009: Brisbane, Memphis, Miami

Doubles Titles:
2011: Stanford, Madrid
2010: Cincinnati
2009: Memphis, Indian Wells
2006: Tashkent

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Mount Rushmore is located in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Doane Robinsons idea was to create an attraction that would draw people from all over the country to this state. He is known as the Father of Mount Rushmore. The Mt Rushmore memorial was created by master sculpture Gutzon Borlgum with the assistance of over 400 blasters, carvers and workers. Construction of the granite rock faced mountain began in 1927 when Borglum was 60 and the sculptures of the Mount Rushmore presidents were not completed until Borlgum’s death in 1941. Creation of the Shrine of Democracy took 14 years and cost a mere $1 million. Each head on Mt. Rushmore is as tall as a six-story building. The presidents noses are 20 feet long, each mouth 18 feet wide and the eyes are 11 feet across. The four presidents carved in the mountain are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. At first, there was a suggestion to carve famous western figures, people like Buffalo Bill, Lewis & Clark, and Sacagawea. But a special group, a commission, instead chose these presidents because they best represented the foundation, expansion and preservation of the United States.

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The Eye stands a whopping 135 metres high on the South Bank between Waterloo and Westminster Bridges, right opposite Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament and provides stunning views over central London and beyond. You can get fantastic views of most of London, especially the Houses of Parliament, follow St. James Park as it sweeps down to Buckingham Palace and the clock tower of Big Ben. Lot of people are scared of heights but it is reasonably ok on it. You feel secure. You will relax in one of the 32 high-tech glass capsules. Standart ticket includes 30-40 minutes ride and new 4D Experience.

Opening times

January – March (daily 10.00am – 8.30pm)
April to June (daily 10.00am – 9.00pm)
July and August (daily 10.00am – 9.30pm)
September to December (daily 10.00am – 8.30pm)

Standard Ticket

Adults (16 Plus): £18.60
Child (4-15 years): £9.54
Senior: £15.00
Child (Under 4): FREE

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The Empire State Building is located at 350 Fifth Avenue (between 33rd and 34th Streets) in New York City. The Empire State Building was built by builders Starrett Bros. & Eken in 1931 and it was completed in one year and 45 days. The building itself cost $24,718,000 to build. The total cost for the Empire State Building was $40,948,900. The height of the building, including the lightning rod, is 1,454 feet (443.18 m). The measurement from the ground to the 102nd floor observatory is 1,224 feet (373.08 m) and from the ground to the 86th floor observatory is 1,050 feet (320.04 m).

Ticket Prices for 86th FLOOR OBSERVATORY
Adult (13-61) ……. $20.21
Child (6-12) ……… $14.70
Senior (62+) …….. $18.37

Ticket Prices for 86th and 102nd FLOOR COMBINATION
Adult (13-61) ……. $37.00
Child (6-12) ……… $31.00
Senior (62+) …….. $35.00

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This guy capture Hyena cubs and train them, but they’re wild animals. I don`t think than he can train them to protect and guard. They could really hurt some one (including the owner). Adults measure 95.0—165.8 cm in body length, and have a shoulder height of 70.0–91.5 cm. Spotted hyenas in Zambia, with males weighing on average 67.6 kg (149 lb), and females 69.2 kg (153 lb).

There are thousands endangered species on planet Earth. This is short list of most known animals on the list. In the USA, 735 species of plants and 496 species of animals are listed as threatened or endangered. Any person may petition the government to list a species as either endangered or threatened.

African Elephant (Loxodonta africana)
Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus)
Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis)
Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
Golden Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia)
Hybrid Spider Monkey (Ateles belzebuth hybridus)
Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis)
Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)
Red Wolf (Canis rufus)
Amur Leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis)
Anatolian Leopard (Panthera pardus tulliana)
Asiatic Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus)
Florida Cougar (Puma concolor coryi)
Iberian Lynx (Lynx Pardinus)
Snow Leopard (Uncia uncia)
Texas Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis albescens)
Tiger (Panthera tigris)
Marine Otter (Lutra felina)
Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)
Lesser Panda (Ailurus fulgens)
Cuvier’s Gazelle (Gazella cuvieri)
Western Giant Eland (Tragelaphus derbianus derbianus)
Wild Bactrian Camel (Camelus bactrianus)
Manipur Brow-Antlered Deer (Cervus eldi eldi)
Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)
Broom’s Pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus)
Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat (Lasiorhinus krefftii)
Short-tailed Chinchilla (Chinchilla brevicaudata)
Giant Armadillo (Priodontes maximus)
Crested Shelduck (Tadorna cristata)
White-winged Duck (Cairina scutulata)
Marquesan Kingfisher (Todirhamphus godeffroyi)
Rufous-lored Kingfisher (Todirhamphus winchelli)
California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus)
Mauritius Kestrel (Falco punctatus)
Hawaiian Crow (Corvus hawaiiensis)
Cochabamba Mountain-finch (Poospiza garleppi)
Gouldian Finch (Chloebia gouldiae)
Blue-bellied Parrot (Tridaria malachitacea)
Whooping Crane (Grus americana)
Siberian Sturgeon (Acipenser baerii baerii)
Alabama Sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus suttkusi)
Chinese Paddlefish (Psephurus gladius)
Alabama Shad (Alosa alabamae)
Silver Shark (Balantiocheilos melanopterus)
Clanwilliam Redfin (Barbus calidus)
Wild Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio)

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