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Young rhinoThe Frozen Zoo houses more than 1,000 species, but if you visit, you won’t see elephants or monkeys roaming about their enclosures. Instead you’ll see test tubes filled with cell cultures, stored in tubs of liquid nitrogen.1
Baby Giant PandaThe Frozen Zoo is run by the San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research, housing genetic material from nearly 10,000 individual animals – some still alive, others long dead.2


