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On the northern edge of the celebrated Balboa Park cultural complex about a mile north-east of downtown San Diego, the San Diego Zoo is widely considered one of the most important zoological gardens in the world. The zoo opened in October 1916 with a small collection of animals left over from the 1915 Panama-California Exposition and grew steadily over the following decades under the long directorship of the legendary Belle Benchley, the first female zoo director in the United States, who guided...