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Zooland Farm Arad
Zooland Farm Arad (Ferma ZooLand Arad) is a 6-hectare animal farm and visitor attraction in Sâmbăteni, Arad County, Romania, owned by Gabriel Mohaci. Started as a deer farm, it also trades imported wild animals legally and operates as ZOOLANDARAD SRL (CUI 36633500, registered 2016).
Zoolander
Zoolander is a 2001 American satirical comedy starring Ben Stiller as a dimwitted male model brainwashed into an assassination plot alongside Owen Wilson, which later became a cult classic.
Zoolander 2
Zoolander 2, also released as Zoolander No. 2, is a 2016 American comedy film directed by and starring Ben Stiller as dimwitted male model Derek Zoolander.
Zoological Center Bear Sanctuary
Zoological Center Bear Sanctuary (ზოოლოგიური ცენტრი), Tskhvarichamia, Sabaduri Forest, Mtskheta, Georgia: non-profit brown bear rescue founded 2010 by Soso Jikurashvili, holding 12 rescued Red List bears, partnered with GSPSA since 2018.
Zoological Garden of Monaco
Jardin Animalier Rainier III (Zoological Garden of Monaco), also formerly Centre d'acclimatation zoologique de Monaco: a one-hectare royal zoo founded by Prince Rainier III in 1954 on the Rock of Monaco, holding about 250 rescued animals, closed since 2024 for cliff works and modernization.
Zoological medicine
Zoological medicine, also called zoo and wildlife medicine, is the veterinary specialty for zoo, wildlife, and exotic species, integrating ecology and conservation; it began with Charles Spooner at London Zoo in 1831 and is organized around the AAZV.
Zoological Park
Zoological park (zoo): a public establishment for wildlife presentation, conservation, education, and recreation; governed by accreditation bodies such as AZA (since 1974, ~240 members) and EAZA, with welfare assessment and reintroduction programs; example, Odesa Zoo, founded 1922.
Zoological Society of London
Zoological Society of London (ZSL), founded 29 April 1826 by Sir Stamford Raffles, is a science-led conservation charity running London Zoo (world's first scientific zoo, 1828), Whipsnade Zoo, the Institute of Zoology, the Living Planet Index, and the EDGE species prioritization metric.
Zoológico de Piedras (Cuba)
Zoológico de Piedras (Stone Zoo), Alto de Boquerón, Yateras, Guantánamo Province, Cuba: an open-air park of over 400 limestone animal sculptures carved in situ from 1977 by Ángel Iñigo Blanco (1935–2014), continued by his son Ángel Iñigo Pérez; declared Cuban cultural heritage in 1977 and national patrimony in 1985.
Zoológico Municipal de Uberlândia
Zoológico Municipal de Uberlândia, a public zoo in Parque do Sabiá, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil; over 300,000 m², rescued Cerrado wildlife, managed by the city; converting to an environmental education park from January 2026.
Zoology
Zoology, from Greek zōion and logos, is the branch of biology studying animals: anatomy, physiology, behavior, classification, evolution, and ecology. Founded with Aristotle; now spans museum taxonomy, genomics, eDNA, AI monitoring, and conservation.
Zoološki vrt Mašo
Zoološki vrt Mašo (Зоолошки врт Машо) is a private zoo in Berane, Montenegro, run by butcher Mašo Nikšić at Talum by the Lim river; about 50 species, 250-500 animals, never formally registered.
Zoom (1999 TV series)
Zoom (1999 TV series), also ZOOM Series II, is WGBH's PBS Kids revival of the 1972 show: seven kid 'Zoomers' per season, viewer-submitted segments, Ubbi Dubbi, January 4, 1999 to May 6, 2005, 201 episodes, season 1 partially lost.
Zoom (2006 film)
Zoom (2006) is an American family superhero comedy directed by Peter Hewitt, starring Tim Allen as retired hero Captain Zoom training superpowered kids, based on Jason Lethcoe's graphic novel; it grossed $12.5 million and scored 5% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Zoom (software)
Zoom, also known as Zoom Meetings, is a videoconferencing platform founded by Eric Yuan in 2011 and best known for its growth during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Zoom AI Companion
Zoom AI Companion, formerly Zoom IQ, is Zoom's generative AI assistant across Meetings, Team Chat, Phone, Email, and Whiteboard, announced in 2023 and included at no extra cost with paid Zoom services.
Zoom Communications
Zoom Communications, formerly Zoom Video Communications, is a San Jose enterprise communications company founded by Eric Yuan in 2011, best known for its Zoom video meetings platform.
Zoom Video Communications
Zoom Video Communications is an American company providing video meetings, chat, phone, and webinars, founded by Eric Yuan in 2011 and headquartered in San Jose, California.
Zoombinis
Zoombinis (The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis) is a 1996 TERC/Broderbund educational logic-puzzle game with 12 puzzles, four difficulty levels, and 625 creature permutations; relaunched 2015 and widely studied for computational thinking learning.
Zoomer (toy)
Zoomer is a line of interactive robotic pet toys made by the Canadian company Spin Master, first released in 2013 as a robotic dog that responds to voice commands, touch, and motion sensors.
Zoomer Historian
Zoomer Historian is the YouTube alias of Sam Wilkes (born 1998, Guernsey), a former FIFA gaming creator (SamGSY) turned long-form WWII revisionist videos critical of Churchill and drawing on David Irving; his channel was terminated in 2025, after which he moved to Substack and Rumble.
Zoomergaze
Zoomergaze is a loosely defined style of electronic music and nu-gaze, in which Generation Z musicians push the boundaries of shoegaze; the term crystallized in the early 2020s United States.
ZoomInfo
ZoomInfo is an American B2B data and software company headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, whose platform provides contact, company, intent, and recruiting data; it trades on Nasdaq as GTM.
ZoomInfo Technologies Inc.
ZoomInfo Technologies Inc., formerly DiscoverOrg, is an American company selling a go-to-market intelligence platform combining a business contact database with sales, marketing, and recruiting tools.
Zoomlion
Zoomlion (中联重科), formally Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese construction, mining, and agricultural machinery maker founded in 1992 and based in Changsha, Hunan.
ZooMS
ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry) is a mass spectrometry method that identifies the animal species of bone, tooth, antler, and leather fragments from collagen peptide mass patterns, introduced in 2009.
Zooniverse
Zooniverse is the world's largest citizen science platform, launched in 2007 with Galaxy Zoo and run by the Adler Planetarium, the University of Oxford, and the University of Minnesota.
Zoonoses and Public Health
Zoonoses and Public Health, formerly the Journal of Veterinary Medicine, Series B, is a peer-reviewed Wiley journal published in Berlin covering the prevention and control of diseases shared between animals and humans.
Zoonosis
Zoonosis (plural zoonoses): infectious disease naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans; over 200 known types, about 60% of human pathogens, managed through the One Health approach of WHO, FAO, WOAH, and UNEP.
Zoonosis classification
Zoonosis classification is the systems for sorting diseases naturally transmitted between vertebrate animals and humans, dividing them by transmission cycle into direct zoonoses, cyclozoonoses, metazoonoses, and saprozoonoses.