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In the southern Dorchester neighbourhood of Boston about four miles south of downtown, the Franklin Park Zoo is the largest of the two zoos operated by the Zoo New England public-private partnership and the principal zoo of the broader Greater Boston area. The 72-acre zoo opened in October 1912 on a portion of the celebrated Franklin Park, the largest park in the Boston park system and itself part of the famous Emerald Necklace chain of parks designed by the great landscape architect Frederick L...