Comments on: A Visit to Zoorassic Park

By: Giny Dignam

Giny Dignam — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 08:00:08 +0000

I have been a Docent at the UMNH for 19 years, teaching about dinos, ice-age and modern animals. I have loved teaching the Zoo visitors about the dinosaurs and Zoo animals on Fridays.(In the old elephant building.) The dino exhibit brings people in to the zoo so they can learn about and appreciate the animals. Doesn’t a book have a nice cover to bring people to read it?? The Museum is a teaching, learning place and so is the Zoo, why shouldn’t they be together? We have co-ordinated together before and it works!! I applaud this effort!!! Children need encouragement to want to learn (so do adults.) I LOVE my Utah Museum of Natural History (soon to be called The Natural History Museum of Utah) and my Hogle Zoo!! What better pairing? Thank your Smithsonian, I enjoy your museums too!!

By: A Visit to London's Dinosaur Court | Dinosaur Tracking

A Visit to London's Dinosaur Court | Dinosaur Tracking — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:17:57 +0000

[...] 1854—long before galleries of robotic dinosaurs would become a common sight—artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins unveiled a menagerie of sculpted [...]

By: Robby Gilbert

Robby Gilbert — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 23:58:35 +0000

BJ. This exhibit is absolutely designed to educate about the preservation of modern animals, endangered or not, and the extinction of past and future animals. The exhibit also was partially brought in as a “thank you” to visitors for having an understanding that part of the zoos exhibits are under construction and unavailable at this time. Don’t be so quick to judge without all of the information and don’t be so quick to dismiss the goals and objectives of this exhibit. Sales of merchandise and revenue go to further enable the zoo to continue the education of humans on the entire world, animals and all. Go enjoy the zoo and museum, they are fantastic!

By: Doug Morris

Doug Morris — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:19:04 +0000

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve had a fascination with dinosaurs. I’m visiting Salt Lake City in a few months, so I’ll have to see the Hogle Zoo when I’m there.

By: BJ Nicholls

BJ Nicholls — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:34:10 +0000

I’m a Salt Lake City resident and promotions like this really undermine the pretense that zoos exist for the benefit of wild animal preservation through education. Yes, extinct animals were animals too, but the dinosaur focus is sales and marketing and with a very thin veneer of education. I don’t suppose that the zoo exhibit compares the current anthropogenic mass-extinction to the demise of non-avian dinosaurs, and that many if not most of the species on display at the zoo are on a steep path to extinction today?