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The Saint Louis Zoological Park, commonly known as the Saint Louis Zoo, is a zoo in Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

It is recognized as a leading zoo in animal management, research, conservation, and education.

The zoo is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).

Admission is free based on a public subsidy from a cultural tax district, the Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District (ZMD); fees are charged for some special attractions.

A special feature is the narrow gauge Emerson Zooline Railroad with passenger trains pulled by Chance Rides C.P.

Huntington locomotives that encircle the zoo, stopping at the more popular attractions.

An insectarium is a live insect zoo, or a museum or exhibit of live insects.

Insectariums often display a variety of insects and similar arthropods, such as spiders, beetles, cockroaches, ants, bees, millipedes, centipedes, crickets, grasshoppers, stick insects, scorpions, and mantids.

Displays can focus on learning about insects, types of insects, their habitats, why they are important, and the work of entomologists, arachnologists, and other scientists that study terrestrial arthropods and similar animals.

The Atlantic puffin ('), also known as the common puffin', is a species of seabird in the auk family.

It is the only puffin native to the Atlantic Ocean; two related species, the tufted puffin and the horned puffin, are found in the northeastern Pacific.

The Atlantic puffin breeds in Iceland, Norway, Greenland, Newfoundland and many North Atlantic islands, and as far south as Maine in the west and the British Isles in the east.

Although it has a large population and a wide range, the species has declined rapidly, at least in parts of its range, resulting in it being rated as vulnerable by the IUCN.

On land, it has the typical upright stance of an auk.

At sea, it swims on the surface and feeds mainly on small fish, which it catches by diving underwater, using its wings for propulsion.

Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic, flightless birds.

They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere, with only one species, the Galapagos penguin, found north of the equator.

Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage, and their wings have evolved into flippers.

Most penguins feed on krill, fish, squid and other forms of sealife caught while swimming underwater.

They spend about half of their lives on land and half in the oceans.

In biology, a species (abbreviated sp., with the plural form species abbreviated spp) is the basic unit of biological classification and a taxonomic rank.

A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which two individuals can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

While this definition is often adequate, looked at more closely it is problematic.

For example, with hybridisation, in a species complex of hundreds of similar microspecies, or in a ring species, the boundaries between closely related species become unclear.

Other ways of defining species include similarity of DNA, morphology, or ecological niche.