Zoo (disambiguation) explained

A zoo (shortened form of "zoological garden") is a place where all animals are exhibited.

Zoo may also refer to:

Places

• The Zoo, a nickname for Kalamazoo, Michigan
• Zoo Junction, a major railroad junction in Philadelphia
• Zoo station (disambiguation), several railway stations

Art, entertainment, and media

Films

• A Zed & Two Noughts (also known as Zoo and Z00), a 1985 film by Peter Greenaway
• Zoo, a 1961 documentary film by Bert Haanstra
• Zoo, a 1999 dark comedy with David Carradine
• Zoo (2005 film), a Japanese portmanteau film based on short stories by Otsuichi
• Zoo (2007 film), a documentary about the life and death of Kenneth Pinyan
• Postcards from the Zoo (also known as Zoo), a 2012 film by Edwin
• Zoo (2017 film), a film by Colin McIvor
• Zoo (2018 film), a Hindi-language drama film directed by Shlok Sharma

Literature

• Zoo (MacNeice book), a non-fiction book by Louis MacNeice
• Zoo (Patterson novel), a 2012 novel by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
• Zoo (Vidmar novel), a 2005 Slovenian novel by Janja Vidmar
• The Zoo Story, a play by Edward Albee

Music

Groups and labels

• The Zoo (American band), a band formed by Mike Flicker and Howard Leese in the 1960s
• The Zoo (Filipino band), an indie rock band from the Philippines
• Zoo (Japanese band), a J-pop band from the early 1990s
• Zoo (Norwegian band), a Norwegian band active in the late 70s and early 80s
• Zoo Entertainment (record label), an American independent record label formed in the early 1990s, now defunct
• Zoo Music, an American independent record label founded by Dee Dee Penny of the Dum Dum Girls
• Zoo Records, a British independent record label formed in 1978

Recordings

• Zoo (Ceremony album), 2012
• Zoo (Russ album), 2018
• "The Zoo" (song), by Scorpions, 1980
• "Zoo" (song), by Red Velvet, 2017
• "Zoo", a song by Fetty Wap and Tee Grizzley, 2019
• "Zoo", a song by Alphaville from CrazyShow, 2003
• "Zoo", a song by the Legendary Pink Dots from Nemesis Online, 1998
• "Zoo", a song by SM Town from , 2021
• "Zoo", a song by Winner from We, 2019
• "The Zoo (The Human Zoo)", a song by the Commodores from Machine Gun, 1974

Periodicals

• Zoo Magazine, a German magazine
• Zoo Weekly, formerly Zoo, a men's magazine in the United Kingdom, Australia and South Africa

Television

• Zoo (American TV series), 2015 television adaptation of James Patterson's novel
• Zoo (Czech TV series), a 2022 Czech family, comedy and relationship TV series
• Our Zoo, a British drama television series
• The Zoo (British TV series), a British television series airing on CBBC
• The Zoo (Australian TV series), an Australian television series
• The Zoo (New Zealand TV series), a New Zealand television series
• The Zoo, an Animal Planet docu-series about the Bronx Zoo
• "Zoo", a season 4 episode of Servant (TV series)

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• Morning zoo, a format of off-beat morning radio
• ZOO, a dance company in Brussels, Belgium, led by Thomas Hauert
• Zoo, a brand used for events organised by the Oxford University Student Union
• Zoo (dance troupe), British Top Of The Pops dance troupe in the 1980s
• The Zoo, a comic opera by Arthur Sullivan

Businesses and organizations

• Zoo Entertainment (video game company), an American video game publisher
• Zoo Corporation, a Japanese video game and medical equipment developer and publisher
• Zoo Outreach Organisation (ZOO), an Indian non-governmental organization
• United States Air Force Academy, nicknamed The Zoo or The Blue Zoo

Technology

• SPAAG ZSU-23-4, a Soviet self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, nicknamed "zoo" by US soldiers
• Zoo (file format), a 1980s archive file format developed by Rahul Dhesi

Other uses

• Asunción Mixtepec Zapotec (ISO 639-3 language code "zoo")
• Saugeen–Maitland Hall, at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada
• Zoo (Anthrocon), an informal meeting place at the Anthrocon convention

See also

• List of zoos
• Zeus (disambiguation)
• Zo (disambiguation)
• Zoology (disambiguation)