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Show TheSalt Lake Tribune TRAVEL Sunday, May 23, 1999 A Zebraof a Different Stripe at San Diego’s Other Animal Park BY CRAIG STOLTZ why the 55-minute, five-mile monorail tour is the park's highlight. The tour provides comfort- able, close-upaccessto tracts dedicated to animals of North Africa, East Africa, South Africa, the lumbering around the perimeter of the area — scent-marking, she said, to ward off potential male No, we are not talking about the world-renownedSan Diego Zoo, or Sea World, or even the “wild” plains of Asia and a Mongolian steppe. Whenour guide stopped show up. We rode past a North African mountainside, where a herd of mountain goats displayed astonishing hoofwork, balancing THE WAS INGTON POST the onlyslightly less enjoyable seals that languish,like enormous dozing salamis, on the sandy the train at the foot of a beaches of La Jolla. San Diego’s scrubby hillside, a thick-legged, gravel Wild Anima} Park, about 40 min: colored creature knownasa Prze- utes north and slightly east of the city, is one of the country’s great walski’s horse approached to greet us with a spectacularly animal attractions. Wereit not locatedin the shadowofthe greatest long-winded, buck-toothed honk. The park hasa herdof the endan- zoo it would certainly be recog: nized as such. Next time youvisit hills and brace yourselffor a dif- The Animal Park, on 1,700 acres in the San Pasqual Valley nusually informative. Our driver explained how the park, vast environments that permit the opened in 1972, is usedas abreed. ing and research facility by the SouthernCalifornia, head for the ferent animal encounter. other professionals, als to mingle and behave, at t to some degree, as they might in the wild. 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