Zoo Tours: Florida | ZooTampa at Lowry Park

[@ZooTours]

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[@Matthewbeyblade]

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[@sharminsultanasuchi1087]

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[@LeafProductions]

This was the very section of the zoo that made me fall in love with Zoo Design. Just everything added up in here not only culminated in an overall immersive experience, but an incredibly educational one as well. And the best part? The fun never stopped. It just felt like a huge expose for North American wildlife and it was just an incredible experience. ZooTampa has to be the best zoo I've visited and it brought so much joy to see you show it off once again!

[@planetzooblogger]

Hi Leaf, you are here, as well as me😄💚

[@Zoove1]

yep

[@StarGiraffinum]

Hi Leaf

[@food-vw7ts]

wsp leaf

[@ultimateparkmasters4735]

This is an awesome exhibit at probably one of my favorites at Tampa, I always look forward to it

[@ratbones620]

Love to see the zoo helping out manatees! Really like this whole exhibit. It’s awesome that a lot of these animals are rescues.

[@ZoosTravelers]

This is still my favorite of the ZooTampa Habitat. Looking forward to seeing the updates when they finish them next spring. As always, great job with the video! Looking forward to seeing where you take us next!!

[@DoctorTanko]

Agreed

[@lindarevere5846]

love your tours always!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@AikenAdventures]

This may be the most fascinating zoo video I’ve ever watched.

[@loura246]

I interned here for 6 months this year, right behind the Tomistoma and Key West area! I was probably there when you filmed this! This is my childhood local zoo and I love seeing how much care is put into these vids.

[@shashibhagtani5674]

Hylo goodevng

[@junglejonah5806]

I gotta say, the thumbnail for this video is one of the best ones yet!

[@ZooTours]

Thank you kindly:) It'll act as the thumbnail format from now on, sideways looks best.

[@noahm398]

Great job with this episode! I love this diverse collection! Trivia Answer: He got his name because he is a Cuban Iguana, and the Cuban sandwich is very popular in Florida.

[@angelineshalyn397]

We’re traveling to Florida for our first time ever from Alaska at the end of this month and we plan on going here ! Super excited

[@razaabbas7212]

very good, this zoo also rehabs and releases wild animals back into the wild, also this place is incredible. Very good video I like it.

[@DaffyTaffy93]

Yooooo love your vids looking forward to this one as well!! Much love from Okc! Gotta come check out our zoo soon man.

[@platinumtidal7094]

I’m happy to see you finally return to ZooTampa, was lucky enough to get to visit it over this years spring break, getting the chance to see the False Gharial, Manatees, and Florida Panther was such a great experience, I hope to visit again once the changes to Florida are done, I’m guessing the next section you’ll do a tour is is Primates

[@PhillipNeumeier]

Yay! Nice job, Zach!

[@NaturesCookFlavor]

Hopefully to visit one day. Enjoyed your sharing 🎁

[@nc9735]

Hi my name is Nicholas Korea and I live in Central Florida in a small town called Winter Haven only two hours from Tampa and this is my local Zoo because it's the nearest zoo I am currently 10 years old and I always loved animals one of my biggest fascinations is the dinosaurs and another one that I just gotten into is army men so I am really excited for this video😊😊😊

[@loura246]

They are completely renovating the upper side of this exhibit! The new Florida Wilds will open in spring 2022

[@Vic-se1fz]

I went to the zoo, it was amazing! Unfortunately most of the Florida section was under construction at the time. The manatee exhibit was my personal favorite.

[@Zoove1]

Wow, just wow!

[@eliocarillos8838]

Went here and it's awesome 😎

[@spunkymonkey5256]

That stingray thing is devastating

[@animalandairplanecollectib1127]

Have you heard of the Texas wild exhibit at the Fort Worth zoo?

[@bradbradthebrad]

0:32 I would be surprised, but then I remember that this is Florida.

[@internetperson976]

I wish there was a live stream

[@codynabseth8637]

I absolutely love your videos they both so informative and also give a good look at all zoos. One question though: How did you figure out the size of the exhibits? Through a website or something?

[@Sksiwixiekasks]

I live in Tampa so I go to this zoo a lot. its a very nice zoo and I have to say my favorite is probably the elephants or the pygmy hippos

[@addison_wolves1296]

At first I thought I have never been here but then the more I watched it I starting to now that I have been here because I remember stingray bay

[@graphite2786]

Is the iguana named after the Cuban Sandwich?

[@loura246]

Yup

[@GiosExotics1426]

I live in Massachusetts, there are lots of spotted turtles

[@owenrutherford3575]

Fantastic video as usual, but one off-topic question, why did you take all the episode numbers out of video titles?

[@ZooTours]

Since I hid most of my older, poorer quality videos, the numbers were removed to avoid confusion. This way I can also post a redo without a random number where it doesn't belong. The private videos can still be seen in the playlists.

[@3456yuhhhjjijZiadtui]

One of my favorite animal alligator

[@lesliechu8879]

Zuka-Zama!!! Also this is episode 103, eh! Also, visit the Woodland Park Zoo soon because it's the last few weeks there to see animatronic dinosaurs there, along with visiting the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, too! Leaping Velociraptor!🦕🦖

[@erikm8372]

So… why is the touch pool different now?

[@calizoos4072]

Dude literally put a link in the description

[@agrilledsandwich2745]

0:32 *what happened here*

[@Teddyredd]

When zak said manatees are slow I laughed I swam with manatees in homasassa springs Florida and they out swam me! I’m a surfer lol. Love you zak I work at the Bronx zoo come visit!!!

[@shimonofbirdsandsupermariofan]

This habitat is coming soon in spring 2022

[@tombiga8254]

Anything changed since your last tour? Planning on going Jan 2024. I heard they had 6 Komodo babies, thought they had Indian and False Gharials.

[@ZooTours]

In terms of the Florida area, the second half looks like it was recently renovated on a $10 budget. They took average exhibits and turned them into one's that you'd find in roadside zoos. The last time I was there, the red wolves were where the cranes were. Those are the only significant changes I can think of.

[@classycthulhu8449]

Despite being a lizard, I think Sandwich can be considered an honorary Florida Man

[@calebwee4613]

Why had most of your videos got deleted

[@NostalgiawithJack]

He didn't delete them; he put them as unlisted because he is planning on making redos of his earlier tours, and he is putting the original tours on the descriptions of these videos.

[@angelicadeleon8517]

1:59 I remember seeing them at Lincoln Park zoo

[@katiesmith3402]

0:46 aint nobody told me that we got apes, gorillas, elephants, rhinos, giraffes, shoebill storks? jaguars, african painted dogs, african penguins, aldabra giant tortoises, galapagos giant tortoises, gharials, komodo dragons, malayan tapirs and tigers, hippopotamus, sun bears, and wallabies in Florida. *this is all a joke btw lol*

[@unicornwizard2118]

DO A TOUR OF THE DENVER ZOO OR CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZOO down here we have a really good zoo facility, and spectacular animals

[@Shrock568]

You can see a tricolored heron at 8:55

[@t1x1e5]

Can somebody explain what happened to the stingrays cus I live in Europe and the website doesn’t work for European users

[@ZooTours]

www.google.com/amp/s/tampa.cbslocal.com/2021/06/17/zootampa-says-gas-embolisms-caused-12-stingrays-to-die-1/%3famp

[@fuzzybutkus8970]

They lost they’re Manatee rehab license for a year in the great Dr. Ray” The Rogue Vet.” Ball case.

[@Bpb-z6j]

Also the reason stingray bay closed was that 12 string rays died from human sickness is think

[@EMILY-M3-c4f]

Now I want to go 😂😫

[@emanueltheodorus1056]

So apparently 12 stingrays died due to supersaturation. Yikes. Stingray touch pools are honestly pretty risky habitat to maintain because one malfunction can be equal to deaths of all of them in one go. John Ball Zoo, Calgary Zoo, and Brookfield Zoo learned this the hard way. Oh and did I see a sign "Do not feed or MOLEST the gators??" Whatever the f happened that made the zoo made that sign?

[@ZooTours]

That Alligator sign is very common throughout the Southeast. Molest is another word for 'bother'

[@loura246]

The supersaturation event happened due to a system malfunction. The zoo has committed to replacing and upgrading the system before taking in more rays

[@certifiedautist5387]

0:32 Hol up

[@frostfire9635]

Iwant go to this zoo but i never go to florida 😑😑😑

[@dylangeltzeiler946]

If it isn’t the Zoo that featured on the 4 Season National Geographic Documentary Secrets Of The Zoo: Tampa.

[@Doom_Squid_Son]

Honestly real sad the stingrays died

[@thepatrioticbrothersdivegp4743]

The stingrays are dead ☠️

[@allanmetzger6425]

Zack i'm really sorry what i said in the comments of the last video i heard about your plan for your videos. I hope you can forgive me. and keep up the great work. Alex

[@fauzanamar]

Florida manatees.... Will be florida mans pet

[@loura246]

Considering it's illegal to even touch them, that is doubtful

[@fauzanamar]

@@loura246 but florida man

[@spunkymonkey5256]

Let me get his straight…they named an Iguana…Sandwich. God bless America

[@ZooTours]

There is a very good reason for his name. It's a local thing, well, statewide thing.

[@loura246]

He's a cuban iguana. He is named after the Cuban sandwich, which is very popular in Tampa because we have a lot of Cuban immigrants here

[@bobbg9041]

Its amazing the care these animals get, yet flordia busses immigrants 1/2 way across the nation to democraticly ranbstates telling them they can find jobs there.

[@cheanghengchong2952]

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