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SAN DIEGO Southwest California [32.8oN, 117oW] |
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San Diego's Zoo and Wild Animal Park are world-class sites for the conservation of animals, many of which are endangered and/or only found outside of North America in the wild. The same goes for Sea World. Some entire orders of mammals have no representatives living in North America north of Mexico. Examples include prototherians (egg-laying mammals) like echidnas, orders of marsupials other than opposums, Macroscelidea (elephant shrews), Tubulidentata (aardvarks), Hyracoidea (hyraxes), Proboscidea (elephants), hippos, camels, Dermoptera (flying lemurs)(?), Scandentia (tree shrews)(?) and primates. There are also many exotic species of birds, reptiles, amphibians, etc. If any of these animals are to be "experienced" in North America, it must be at a zoo. Mission Trails Regional Park is a good place to experience the Chaparral ecosystem.
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