San Diego Zoo - Panda web cam

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The San Diego Zoo has had a love affair with giant pandas ever since two of the black-and-white bears came to visit in 1987. After years of red tape and tons of application paperwork, the Zoo and China agreed on a 12-year research loan of two giant pandas, Bai Yun and Shi Shi. A brand-new exhibit area was built for our panda guests, which has since been expanded and renovated and is now called the Giant Panda Research Station. Although we currently have four giant pandas, our facility can comfortably house up to six!

live web cam (http://www.sandiegozoo.org/zoo/ex_panda_station.html)

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At first thought, a polar bear in sunny San Diego seems curiously out of place. But with the San Diego Zoo's Polar Bear Plunge, you'll discover that polar bears are right at home, where every day is an Arctic summer day.

This exhibit brings the Arctic tundra south to San Diego, with Siberian reindeer, Pallas' cats, northern birds, and native plants, along with polar bears. The focal point of the exhibit is, naturally, the Plunge. From the underwater viewing room you can see how agile and playful the polar bears really are. In fact, they're known to swim right up to the glass to check out all the humans on display.

Live Web Cam (http://www.sandiegozoo.org/zoo/ex_polar_bear_plunge.html)

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There are lots of ways to view elephants these days. You can travel to Africa or Asia, of course, but the easiest way to observe these mighty creatures is to come to the Wild Animal Park! We have two large exhibit areas for our elephant herds: one for our Asian elephant group and another one for our African elephants.

Live Web Cam (http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wap/ex_elephants.html)

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For decades the orangutans and siamangs at the San Diego Zoo have delighted visitors with their colorful personalities and intriguing vocalizations. Now, the two families of apes, indigenous to the same Asian rain forest ecosystem, share a habitat at the Zoo. Absolutely Apes provides a lush, naturalistic environment where arboreal orangutans and siamangs can climb, swing, and live in the same terrain as they would in the wild.

Live Web Cam (http://www.sandiegozoo.org/zoo/ex_absolutely_apes.html)

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