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Detroit Zoo sees more than 1.5 million visitors in 2017

The Detroit Zoological Society said Wednesday that the 2017 attendance was the second highest at the zoo. The total was boosted by an annual holiday light display that drew more than 151,000 visitors.

Second highest attendance the zoo has ever had

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In this Monday, April 18, 2016 photo, Marzetta Hoskin points at a penguin with her son, Christian Jones, in the underwater tunnel at the Polk Penguin Conservation Center in Royal Oak, Mich. (Robin Buckson/The Associated Press)

More than 1.5 million people visited the Detroit Zoo last year.

The Detroit Zoological Society said Wednesday that the 2017 attendance was the second highest at the zoo. The total was boosted by an annual holiday light display that drew more than 151,000 visitors.

Nearly 1.7 million people visited the zoo in 2016. The popular Polk Penguin Conservation Center opened that April.

In this Tuesday, March 14, 2017, photo, Dr. Ruth Marcec holds an anatolian newt, left, and a luristan newt at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, Mich. Marcec, the new director of the zoo's National Amphibian Conservation Center, is tasked with inducing frogs and salamanders to make a love connection. (Carlos Osorio/The Associated Press)

The zoo is north of Detroit in Royal Oak. It is operated by the zoological society.

This summer, the Dinosauria exhibit of more than 40 animatronic dinosaurs returns to the zoo. Three major renovation and expansion projects are expected to be completed, and a new habitat for Japanese giant salamanders will be unveiled at the National Amphibian Conservation Center.

In this Tuesday, March 14, 2017, photo Dr. Ruth Marcec looks over an amphibian holding tank at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, Mich. Marcec, the new director of the zoo's National Amphibian Conservation Center, is tasked with inducing frogs and salamanders to make a love connection. (Carlos Osorio/The Associated Press)
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