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Set within historic Grant Park, just south-east of downtown, Zoo Atlanta is one of the oldest continuously operating zoos in the United States, its origins reaching back to 1889 when a local businessman donated a small menagerie of circus animals to the city. From those modest beginnings the zoo grew gradually for the next century before undergoing a celebrated, top-to-bottom reinvention in the 1980s that turned it from a struggling outfit into one of the most highly regarded mid-sized zoos in t...