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Flushing Meadows / Zoo to Get New Look, Management The nonprofit New York Zoological Society is designing renovation plans for the zoo in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park with an objective of taking over management of the zoo in about two years.
For years, city parks officials have been talking to the society about managing all of the city's zoos and slowly, the plans have taken hold, said Richard Lattis, director of the society's zoo projects. The Central Park zoo is currently being renovated, Lattis said, and designs are being drawn for Brooklyn's Prospect Park zoo as well.
"The old zoos will be closed, the animals sent to other zoos during renovations and then the zoos will reopen under the society's management," Lattis said.
In Queens, the plan is to retain the North American theme, Lattis said. This means the sea lions will stay, and mountain lions, bob cats and prairie dogs will be added. A fallow deer, which is European in ancestry, will probably be replaced by an elk, more common...