Immersion exhibit
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An immersion exhibit is a naturalistic zoo environment that gives visitors the sense they're actually in the animals' habitats. Buildings and barriers are hidden. By recreating sights and sounds from natural environments, immersion exhibits provide an indication about how animals live in the wild[1].
The landscape immersion term and approach were developed in 1975 at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo[2]. This led to the zoo's ground-breaking gorilla exhibit which opened in 1978[3][4]. The concept has since gained widespread acceptance as the best practice for zoological exhibits[2].
[edit] References
- ^ "What Is an Immersion Exhibit?". http://www.stlzoo.org/yourvisit/thingstoseeanddo/riversedge/immersion.htm. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
- ^ a b "Immersion Design". http://www.joncoedesign.com/trends/exhibit_trends.htm#immersion. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
- ^ "Inside Out Cage". http://www.wnyc.org/stream/ram?file=/radiolab/radiolab060107pod.mp3. Retrieved on 2007-08-15.
- ^ Coe, Jon Charles; Lee, Gary (1996). "One-Hundred Years of Evolution in Great Ape Facilities in American Zoos: 1896 - 1996". http://www.joncoedesign.com/pub/PDFs/OneHundredYears1996.pdf.
