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🔒Here are 100 wacky, cool and totally true things you never knew about the Houston Zoo

Fact No. 45: The zoo made headlines in 1984 after admitting it displayed a rubber snake in its reptile house

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Color postcard, with scenes of animals at Hermann Park Zoo, Houston, Texas, circa 1920. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

A hundred years ago, the Houston Zoo was founded. In celebration of the institution’s centennial, we dug through history books and archives to unearth some wild and wonderful facts about the Houston Zoo.

Scroll below for a glimpse of the zoo through the years. Happy reading friends!

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