Question: What superlative does the North Carolina Zoo claim?
Answer: The North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro bills itself as the world’s largest natural habitat zoo. With 500 developed acres (part of a larger 2,600-acre wooded site), it was the first American zoo to embrace the natural-habitat philosophy, allowing animals to live in expansive, cage-free enclosures that closely resemble their wild environments. The zoo houses about 1,700 animals from more than 250 species, primarily from Africa and North America, and is one of only two state-supported zoos in the United States.
