Over here, at your neighbor to the east, it IS rather expensive if you visit just once.

But most locations offer a ticket for a year, sometimes even for a family for a year, and become very affordable all of a sudden if you visit four to rive times a year or more.

Since most of the zoos over here also offer mundane attractions for kids (fancy playgrounds, petting zoos and whatnot) it's a decent deal and in my experience something that works quite well.

Good idea, I'll inquire about that. Thank you!

It's expensive to house, take care of, and feed all of those animals. It's way cheaper to hire some teenagers to run a rollercoaster than it is to run a primate house, I'd imagine. It's unfortunate but that's the realities of it.

I understand. But it does start a cycle that is hard to break out of where the zoo will simply disappear.