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I remember the first time I drove to the zoo here I laughed, because it was so unlike a "real" zoo that I was used to from the "city" - 

I will miss this zoo!  The way your kids can run wild because it's so small you can always see them, and there are so few people that they don't get in anyone's way.  The way you can be done with it in 30 minutes (seeing everything but the buffalo) or stay for 4 hours and still have to drag the kids away (usually we are the latter.)  The hiking trails just past the buffalo where you can wander the afternoon away.  The old (mostly empty but apparently fascinating) house that's only open in the summer, and the old machinery behind it that breaks if you try to hang on it (we've seen it happen!)   

One day we were headed to the zoo here and I was singing to Carter a song about "we're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo, to see the lions and the wild zebras too…" that named a few other zoo animals.  He kept saying "no, mom!" until I started making up my own version with the animals this zoo has – otters, wolves, badgers, cyotes… and then "Yeah, mom, the cyotes!!"  and all of a sudden the song was awesome.  

Because really, what's a zoo without a couple of cyotes.