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Accessibility Matters

10,000 Birds

Public accommodations include government buildings, stores, hotels, transportation hubs, hospitals, schools, restaurants, etc. The refuge has an impressive visitor center that opened in 2008, so it is ADA compliant. Thus, all buildings open to the public that are less than about 30 years old likely comply in some way with the ADA.

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Questionable Practices at the Calgary Zoo

Critter News

Another animal dies at the Calgary Zoo and more questions are being raised about their practices. Incidents include a hippo who died in transport from Denver and a Turkmenian markhor, a species of wild goat, hung itself at the zoo after becoming trapped by a rope. In April 2009, unseasonably cold weather froze two whopping crane eggs.

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