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On the eastern edge of central Phoenix in the historic Papago Park, the Phoenix Zoo is the largest privately operated non-profit zoo in the United States and one of the most heavily visited zoological gardens in the American South-West. The 125-acre zoo opened in November 1962, the brainchild of the Arizona businessman Robert E. Maytag (whose family owned the Maytag appliance company), and operates today as a private non-profit organisation under the umbrella of the Arizona Center for Nature Con...