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Kōrero: Zoos and aquariums

Lion encounter

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Lion encounter

Visitors to Orana Wildlife Park can take a ride through the African lion exhibit and encounter the animals at close quarters. In a twist on the usual zoo situation, the animals are free and the people are in a cage.

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Orana Wildlife Park

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Maggy Wassilieff, Zoos and aquariums – Modernising zoos, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/18441/lion-encounter (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.