Google adds zoos to Street View, heroically avoids calling it ‘Street Zoo’

Google adds zoos to Street View, heroically avoids calling it 'Street Zoo'

Granted, the name “Street View” doesn’t really apply like it used to, but who’s going to argue with a feature like this? Google announced today that it’s added imagery from zoos all over the world to the Maps feature, meaning that you can check out lions, tigers and red pandas in their unnatural habits and avoid the long lines at the monkey house. Google’s got links to the zoo shots in the source link below, including locations in Singapore, Germany, Spain, the UK and China — sadly there are no dog lions, however, so far as we can tell.

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