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Article: THEY ROAM IN THE WILD - SORT OF.(Travel)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- March 24, 2002
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Byline: - Eric Noland
TUCSON, Ariz. - The zoos are getting wise to it: Visitors generally don't want to see high-walled pens where wild creatures are inclined to do little more than sleep or pace. No, today's zoo-goers desire habitat.
At the popular Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, just west of Tucson, they get it.
The most popular features of the complex are areas where animals can ramble, rut, hunt and hide much as they do in the wild. That means one expansive enclosure set aside for coyotes, another for javelinas (also known as collared peccaries). There's even a prairie dog village.
Most of the critters here can be found in nearby ...