Collection of assorted wild animal species kept for purposes like: study, conservation and, or, commercial exhibition
A zoo (short for zoological garden; also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition and often bred for conservation purposes. The term zoological garden refers to zoology, the study of animals. The term is derived from the Greek,, 'animal', and the suffix,, 'study of'. The abbreviation zoo was first used of the London Zoologi... Wikipedia